The Washington Times' Brett Decker interviewed former BB&T CEO and Job Creators Alliance Member John Allison on the causes behind the sluggish economic recovery.

Places where would-be job creators are subjected to burdensome, confusing, and costly regulations were ranked among the least friendly to small business.

While the year started with some hopeful employment numbers, job creation is trending in the wrong direction. Overall, the Bureau of Labor Statistics jobs report for April is mixed, with softness in the headline numbers for April tempered by upward revisions to previous data.

Part 4 of Dr. Butler's series on the (im)morality of taxation focuses on how it serves the self-interest of the authorities.

If the percentage of adult Americans in the labor force -- that being the total number of people who are employed or looking for work -- were the same as it was during the end of the Bush administration, the April jobless rate would be at 11.1 percent.

The problem with officials citing the unemployment rate, and pundits counting on it to inform their predictions, is what it leaves out.

It seems intuitive to think that a smart group of central government planners concerned about the collective good can accomplish more than free people pursing their own interests individually in the private sector. But history and reality say otherwise.

Congress's response to the financial crisis was to punish banks on Main Street for the bad decisions made on Wall Street—and it has stifled the kind of financing that businesses desperately need to keep the lights on, much less hire more workers.

Newly announced regulations under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act threaten the very existence of consumer directed health plans in the individual market.

The dirty little not-so-secret fact is that many economic regulations have little to do with protecting citizens’ health, safety and welfare, and instead are propagated by entrenched interests to squeeze out less powerful competitors.

Another winter of hope, another spring of disappointment.

The predicted 170,000 new jobs -- sure to be revised downwards as the number has been consistently -- is a sign of a sluggish to flat economy.

Taxes may convince people that they have no outstanding social obligations at all.

The real story is in the four week rolling average, nearly 375,000 -- roughly the same level as last spring's stagnant economic conditions.

Raising taxes on small businesses isn't going to help those college grads pay off their loans when they can't get jobs.

Durable-goods orders had their worst month in three years.

Taxation forces people to pay for things they disagree with, and indeed for things that they may oppose morally, at the deepest personal level.

Want to compare this recession and the recovery efforts to past recessions and recoveries in terms of job creation? There's an app for that.

Econbrowser has a good map showing the average unemployment rate over the last year -- the middle of the country is improving but it's bleak elsewhere.

If it weren't for people dropping out of the labor force, the unemployment rate would be well over 11 percent.

When things happen gradually, we tend not to notice. Just 12,300 years ago, Niagara Falls was about seven miles further downstream. It has slowly eroded and no one noticed along the way. It's the same with our free enterprise system.

The natural state of makind through most of history is abject poverty. How, then, did some nations manage to escape this?

No matter where you are, you have to see the signs. The signs help you get past all the arguments about what is going to happen and show you what is real. In an election year, seeing the signs is even more important, as we face an important decision over whether the president deserves four more years, or whether someone else deserves the job.The sign here is what they do about small businesses.

It's "only" $340 billion more on top of the $14 trillion national debt, but they sold it to the American people promising it would reduce the deficit. As broken promises go, it's a doozy.

The TSA is a prime example of how government can never do the job as well as the private, for-profit sector.

For America to prosper, we must unleash our entrepreneurs, inventors,and job creators to provide employment, economic opportunities, freedom,and a resurgence of America, as the economic leader of the world.

“Entrepreneur” means “young.” “Entrepreneur” means “energy.” “Entrepreneur” means “new.”Right?

Any business owner can tell you that the rising cost of health care has been one of their top concerns for years—but what has them really worried is the increased layers of cost, regulation, and uncertainty stemming from Obamacare.

Regardless of your personal feelings about hunting, one can't ignore that three African antelope species went from a few dozen worldwide in the late 1970s to more than 17,000 in Texas because of market incentives rather than government regulation.

Isn't reforming the higher education industry or even doing “something” about obscene CEO salaries more desirable if aimed at maximizing opportunities rather than equalizing incomes? That's a good question.

Advocates of regulations don’t acknowledge the law of unintended consequences.

And the proof of it is in the oral arguments on Obamacare this week.

When I tried to open a lemonade stand outside my Fox office, I learned about the piles of regulations that make it so tough for new businesses to get off the ground.

Calls for redistribution by government are heard on the streets, in the press and from somepoliticians. But by some measures economic inequality is no greater nowthan it was in the 1980s, according to one depth study of the issue.

In a bit of heartening news, SCOTUS handed down a big win for both propertyrights and due process rights in Sackett v. EPA.

The emphasis on potentially self-serving agency-assessed net benefits underscores yet again the reality that improving regulatory out comes fundamentally requires Congress to answer for rule impacts

Tom Stemberg was on CNBC's "Squawk Box" talking jobs and obstacles to job creation.

As Hispanics become increasingly prominent, we need to embrace a free market approach and reject reliance on government.

In the Huffington Post, Michael Whalen talks about how onerous regulations are killing job creation.