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Gas Prices Rise in January

February 16, 2005 --It's not surprising that gas prices are high, but a dramatic rise in January--usually a time where demand for gas is l...  Read more

An Opec of Rice?

With food and grain prices surging worldwide, an organization of rice-producing nations appears to be in the works, the New York Times reports. Read more

Fear Not

How fundamental changes in the economy make inflation in the near future highly unlikely.  Read more

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 more

Outlook 2006: Energy

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New Energy Boomtowns

Economists and businesses around the nation are rightly worried about the impact of high energy prices. But there may be an upside for places who are pos...  Read more

Consumer Confidence Up

Dec. 13, 2004 --In a preliminary survey of December, released Friday, the University's consumer sentiment index climbed to 95.7, a gain fr...  Read more

Cloudy, With a Chance of Monsoons

Recession, downturn - whatever you call it, the recent economic slowdown may be one of the most confusing in recent memory. Results of a recent Inc 500 surve...  Read more

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

The Fight To Harness The Sun

Roger Little of Spire Corp. is betting that his strategy for making solar power pay can overcome foreign competition, big oil, and lack of government support...  Read more

Defying Gravity

Some of America's iconic companies took flight in gloomy times.  Read more

Tv Gets Down To Business

There is nothing exceptional about the outside of the graffiti-scarred garage on New York's West Side. But inside Matrix Studios, an entrepreneurial gambl...  Read more

A New Tack For The New Year

Two proposed bills -- one to create jobs for small business at home, another to study the worldwide economic slump -- might provide the solution voters seek.  Read more

The Name Of The Game

The year was 1971, and Ralph Anspach, a San Francisco State University economics professor, was sitting in his Berkeley home, playing Monopoly with his se...  Read more

Uncle Sam, Research Director

The nation's 400 national labs want to transfer their know-how to you. For sale: 28,000 patents.  Read more

Investing In Growth Companies;

Like the weather, the fortunes of fast-growth stocks can change overnight. Witness the rebound of this year's INC. 100 portfolio.  Read more

Beware Of Deflation

Prices could be headed downward. That's bad news for businessmen who aren't prepared.  Read more

The Revolt Of The Capitalists

When the ruling Social Democrats proposed one tax too many, 100,000 Swedish businesspeople took to the streets in protest -- and that was just the beginning.  Read more

Keeper Of The Flame

A CEO discovers the difference between 'best-made' and 'best-selling' and learns to listen to the market.  Read more

The Thinking Man's CEO

Interview with with a CEO who pursues outside activities to expose his company to emerging areas of opportunity.  Read more

What's The Difference Between Politicians And Cottage Cheese?

Not much, at least from a marketing standpoint. And that's where David Sawyer comes in.  Read more

Catching A Post-boom Chill

When Big Oil sneezes, many of Houston's small companies catch pneumonia.  Read more

The Richest Man You've Never Heard Of

To make a fortune on America's mountain of credit-card debt, this CEO had to go broke first.  Read more

The 'ownership' Factor

Thanks to its unusual compensation system, Re/Max has many of the best people in real estate clamoring to sign up.  Read more

#8 TEMPS & CO. WASHINGTON, D.C. Many INC. 500 companies are wife-and-husband teams, but so far as we can tell, this is the only sister-brother c...  Read more