Every four months, Wells Fargo and Gallup survey 600 small business owners to assess their hiring in the past expectations of hiring in the future. The January, 2012, report…
The Congressional Budget Office has verified what we all suspected – the Republican outrage over the corporate tax rate is disingenuous. The current corporate tax rate is 35%. Some companies…
There are some stories which, though very serious, lead to uncontrollable bouts of the giggles. This is such a story….. When the recession hit Europe, the effects were devastating. Too…
There is not a lot to report on this story, but it appears that Facebook is reading for its first initial public offering- in other words, they are getting ready…
TransCanada’s threat to take its oil sands muck to British Columbia to ship to China was a hollow one. Chief Executive Russ Girling told an investment conference on Thursday that…
The Obama administration, with the recommendation of Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, has rejected the Keystone XL Pipeline, an allegedly $7 billion project to link the tar sands…
If you watch historic period movies or read historical novels, you may have noticed someone handing over a “letter of credit.” These documents guaranteed that the bearer had on deposit…
Home Prices Drop Again
Have you ever heard someone say that the stock market is going through “an adjustment”? They are describing a situation in which stock prices have been inflated beyond the…
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