For the first time in 3 decades, businesses are collapsing faster than they're being created. That's the concluisions of a study done by the Brooking Institution, which looked at business creation since 1978. Washington Post: The American economy is less entrepreneurial now than at any point in the last three decades. That's the conclusion of a new study out from the Brookings Institution, which looks at the rates of new business creation and destruction since 1978. Not only that, but during the most recent three years of the study -- 2009, 2010 and 2011 -- businesses were collapsing faster than they were being formed, a first. Overall, new businesses creation (measured as the share of all businesses less than one year old) declined by about half from 1978 to 2011. No, it's not entirely the fault of President Obama's policies, but given the slide in the last 3 years of the study, it's hard not to make a case that higher federal taxes and...(Read Full Post)