Is the Economic Turnaround Here To Stay?
The Labor Department released encouraging numbers last week highlighting increases in productivity and job creation, but the news coming out of Washington... Read story
Alan Greenspan
Greenspan Warns Deficit Could Spark Rate Soar
April 21, 2005 -- Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan warned on Thursday that if America's budget deficit is not addressed interest r... Read story
Fed Intent on More Rate Increases
July 21, 2005 --Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan appeared before a Senate subcommittee Thursday, repeating his intention to continu... Read story
Analysis: What a Housing Bust Means for Business
August 31, 2005 --In a speech Sunday, Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said that the booming housing market was headed for a near-t... Read story
The Case for Higher Prices
Thanks mainly to Alan Greenspan, it's harder than ever to get customers to accept price hikes. But, argues entrepreneur Norm Brodsky, you're making a big mis... Read story
Outlook 2006: Interest Rates
Going up! Read story
CEOs Offer Their Advice to Bernanke
Nov. 16, 2005 -- The Senate Banking Committee on Wednesday approved the nomination of Ben Bernanke, President Bush’s Read story
CEOs Offer Their Advice to Bernanke
Nov. 14, 2005 -- The Senate Banking Committee on Wednesday approved the nomination of Ben Bernanke, President Bush's Read story
Consumer Spending Plummets in June
August 4, 2004 -- The softening in consumer spending that Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan warned about last month came through re... Read story
Bernanke Nominated to Succeed Greenspan
Oct. 24, 2005 --President Bush announced today that he has nominated Ben Bernanke to replace Alan Greenspan as the Chairman of the Federal... Read story
The Insider's Guide to Economic Forecasting
Or, How to Get Ahead of the Competition by Becoming Your Own Economist. A well-known economist pulls back the curtain on the indicators he a... Read story
Tracking Borrowing Costs
A new book traces the performance of more than 30 key money rates over the past decade. Read story
What I Miss About The Fortune 500
The phone call from Fred wasn't really a surprise. We had been in touch off and on during the 30 years I had worked for a series of large corporations --... Read story
Commerce Department Delivers More Good News on the Economy
Feb. 28, 2005 -- The U.S. economy grew at an unexpectedly rapid clip at the end of last year as the good news on the state of the economy... Read story
Growth in Consumer Prices Looks Certain to Spur Rate Hike
June 15, 2004 -- U.S. consumer prices surged 0.6 percent in May, largely due to soaring energy costs. The report by the Labor Department ... Read story
The Fun Factor
What's really driving the new economy -- and confounding the grand pooh-bahs of the old one -- is that individuals are having a huge impact. And an awful lot... Read story
Economic Data Dips, Surges
June 30, 2005 --Reports released Thursday by the Departments of Labor and Commerce provided mixed messages on the economy, while House Dem... Read story
Decision Makers Do-si-do
As a new year starts, three key institutions--the Federal Reserve Board, the National Federation of Independent Business, and the Congressional Budget Office... Read story
Consumer Prices Inch Up; Inflation Fears Continue to Fade
September 17, 2004 -- Consumer prices rose only 0.1 percent in August, led by a decline in gas and car prices, according to a report rele... Read story
Business Expansion
The economy is notoriously cyclical. It expanded forcefully in the 1990s reaching a peak growth of 7.3 percent in the fourth quarter (Q4) of 1999. Growth ... Read story
UNTITLED
While global risk has become a focal point for investors, corporate malfeasance is still a hairy elephant. But if the recommendations made Thursday by the... Read story
U.S. Economy Added Only 32,000 Jobs in July
The lone bright spot on the report was that the unemployment rate fell to 5.5 percent in July, down from 5.6 percent in June. The payroll survey and the u... Read story
Jobless Claims Fell Last Week
August 5, 2004 -- The number of U.S. workers filing for unemployment benefits fell last week, a piece of good news just before Friday's r... Read story
Employment Contracts
Employment contracts replace the normal hiring arrangement between employer and employee with a legal document in which the employment relationship is spe... Read story
Reining In Office Rumors
Shutting down the company rumor mill. Plus: Finding sales talent; curing the PO box blues. Read story
Agenda 1/06
Talk about a big month: Father Time makes way for his replacement, and so does Alan Greenspan. Read story
GDP Growth Slows in Second Quarter
August 30, 2004 -- The U.S. economy expanded at a slower pace in the second quarter than originally estimated thanks mostly to a larger t... Read story
Letters
Readers react to articles from the April and May 2000 issues of Inc. , including "The Case for Higher Prices" and "The Art of the Deal," by Norm Brod... Read story
Free At Last
Life in the business world is full of surprises. Had anyone suggested to us a few years ago that we'd be better off putting our small-but-growing venture... Read story
Mezzanine Financing
Related Terms: Initial Public OfferingRead story
Price/Earnings (P/E) Ratio
Related Terms: Discounted Cash Flow ... Read story
The Real Ayn Rand
A groundbreaking new biography paints a surprising -- and surprisingly lurid -- picture of the writer and thinker Read story
The Boom in Employee Ownership
Inc. gets the scoop on the effects of stock options from Corey Rosen, cofounder of the National Center for Employee Ownership. Read story
Motion Without Movement
A diary of official Washington in the midst of an economic crisis Read story
Almost a Tax Plan
The budget deficit is deadly serious. Tax reform should be too. Read story
Nation's Trade Deficit Widens to an All-Time High
Dec. 15, 2004 --The U.S. economy is breaking all kinds of dubious records this year. The Commerce Department delivered the latest bad news... Read story
Back to the Future
The tax cut makes this Bush look very Reaganesque. Read story
Ayn of a Thousand Pages
Ayn Rand was born in 1905 in St. Petersburg, Russia. Her abhorrence of collectivism and admiration for the heroic individualist emerged at an early age, w... Read story
Trading Places: Inside the Barter Economy
Once a dusty corner of the economy, barter is emerging as a hot entrepreneurial niche and a valuable tool for cash-crunched companies. Read story
How Business Can Prepare for War
Hit by both the threat of war in Iraq and a lingering economic slowdown, companies in many areas of the world are reining in investments and postponing th... Read story
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