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Preparing for a Financial Crisis

Companies can do much to avoid falling victim to sudden national financial emergencies. Although the tally of such events is rising, many businesses remain u...  Read more

Globalization

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Dossier: Trade Secrets

Stephanie Black's film Life and Debt challenges a political position that many CEOs support.  Read more

Forecasting

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Making Economics Easy To Understand

In a stimulating text, two prominent economists tell how we got into this mess and look for ways out.  Read more

Is it Bush's fault?

Joe Stiglitz likes to toss blame around for the economic woes that plague our world—but I'm not sure the blame is always aimed in the right direction. I...  Read more

Britain's New Generation Of Company Builders

How Margaret Thatcher has instituted revolutionary changes in government to save Great Britain's faltering economy.  Read more

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 more

Going Global, Part 11: What Would Bono Do?

It was the World Bank's Doing Business Report that provided reporters Nitasha Tiku and Max Chafkin with economic metrics for Inc.'s Read more

Emerging Markets

The phrase "emerging markets" has two distinct connotations. First , it means new and emerging foreign export markets for U.S. companies. The U.S....  Read more

Trading Places: Inc.'s 2008 Export Guide

Who has petrodollars to spend? Where can you sell construction equipment? Jewelry? Management consulting? And where is the market that grew an astounding 55,...  Read more

Tim Geithner's Innocent Mistakes

"These were careless mistakes," the man who would be President Obama's Treasury Secretary Read more

Growing Business by Going Global

Market intelligence on People's Republic of China; gadgets that make int'l telecommunications easier.  Read more

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