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Consumer Options and the Credit Card Act

Recently, we've been getting such friendly notices in the mail from our credit card companies. They're all about the new, wonderful programs and rates being offered. We can now pay off smaller purchases interest-free on a monthly basis and simply accrue interest on more major purchases, we...More...

Watching the Dinosaurs Fall

Look now as the mist clears, before us, a brand new shopping development, finished in September 2007 all 14 units stand empty. Five months and not one unit rented, maybe it was the demise of the Ford assembly plant or maybe it was the demise of the Chevrolet assembly plant. Maybe it's the doubl...More...

To Deregulate Or Regulate - The Key Economic Struggle

This article deals with how all stakeholders in the general economy can work towards a middle ground in achieving a proper regulatory environment, while at the same time creating an enabling environment for enterprise to thrive. This is geared towards creating a general consciousness in spotting cur...More...

HP to Split Into Two Companies

On the morning of October 6, 2014, Hewlett Packard announced plans to split into two separate companies. The announcement confirmed reports previously appearing on the Wall Street Journal, Techspot and other publications. Under the plan, the iconic information technology firm will separate the corpo...More...

QE2 and the Tipping Point

You may have heard of Malcolm Gladwell's book from 2000 called 'The Tipping Point' where ideas, messages and behaviours spread like a virus to reach a boiling point. Right now, traders and investors are on alert for the tipping point in the sharemarket. Will the QE2 be that tipping po...More...

Powerhouse Economies to Lead US Out of Recession

The United States got caught in a "triple witching" that shook it almost to its financial foundations. With the banking collapse hooked to credit default swaps which were hooked to the mortgage industry the market had no place to go but down....More...

The Tax Jobs Market in 2010 - An Outlook

The global liquidity crisis of the last two years has produced such a volatile, and at times unprecedented, setting for business, that the predictions of even the most learned commentators have been wildly incorrect. What does this spell for the tax recruitment market?...More...

Property Rights and Social Costs - The Impact of Air Pollution

The lack of defined property rights leads to the abuse of certain activities as a result of a differing perceptions regarding how choices affect marginal private benefits and social costs. How does this impact society and what does this say about how private enterprises make choices? let's use ...More...

Solidarity Economy, Hope For Change - Part I-II

Both capitalist and communist economic development models of the past four decades have proven that it is easier to scale down micro programs than far' reaching ventures. In other words risk factor and error margins are greater or lesser accordingly with business scope at stake. In that regard,...More...

Survival in a Brutally Surprising Economy

Is that late model German car serving you well like it used to, or just leaving you with a huge note and gasoline bill and less bumpy ride? My used Saturn gets me to the same places and a tank of gas lasts me nearly a month. Someone else has my old Mercedes and that is just fine with me....More...

Bringing Down the Wall in Russia

The task of the Western powers is to open up Russia to outside financial institutions and corporations. This will help make Russia a leader in world economies....More...

No Wonder We Are Spending $2 Trillion on Health Care

The cost of health care is on everyone's mind. The debate has proceeded around how we can get people covered and not about why the costs are so high. I recently came across an interesting piece of research that may illustrate why we spend so much for health care....More...

Cash For Clunkers - Stimulus Or Boondoggle?

Cash for Clunkers, the federal program that pays $4,500 toward the purchase of certain new cars, is tremendously popular.But as with all government handouts, for everyone who benefits, someone else pays a price.Only a reasoned examination of all of the costs together with the benefits can the balanc...More...

Low Interest Rates Are the Problem - Not the Solution

While politicians on both sides of the aisle go on cable news and try to deny their involvement in the current financial crisis and pretend that over the last eight years there was nothing that they could have done to prevent the circumstances that created the largest structural meltdown since the G...More...

How to Support the Economy With Your Stimulus Check

As many people across the country have already gotten their economic stimulus checks, it is important to remember that the goal of this free money is to help stimulate the economy. So before you waste your check, consider these ways to support the economy with your check....More...