For the past year, the economic signs have been decidedly mixed. One week consumer confidence would go up, but manufacturing production would drop. The stock market would go up, but retail purchases would go do. Recently, the job market has been showing signs of life, but the economy in the first quarter, as measured by [...]
A small San Francisco-based company finds success by figuring out that the package matters as much as what’s inside — even when you’re talking about eco-friendly hand soap
Depending on what you want to count, Osama bin Laden in the past decade since 9/11 has cost the United States anywhere from $280 billion to well over $5 trillion. Why so big a range? You can pretty much blame all of our nation’s economic woes on Osama bin Laden. Don’t believe me? Try this [...]
If Osama bin Laden wasn’t a terrorist, criminal and, you know, all around worst dude on earth, he might have made a pretty good executive. Terror analysts and economists say al-Qaeda is well financed and profitable. Perhaps the worse news to emanate from the death of bin Laden: The end of the man is unlikely [...]
There is a saying on Wall Street that even a dead cat will bounce. How high, then, should the market bounce on the death of Osama bin Laden? As of mid-day on Monday, the stock market was up a bit. The price of a barrel of oil had dropped on Sunday night, but I wasn’t [...]
