Surprise, surprise. Fed Chair Ben Bernanke’s much-awaited speech today at the Atlanta conference didn’t really say much. Markets tumbled on fallen hopes that he’d offer the sputtering recovery yet another bond-buying boost.
There was no grand announcement of QE3, another round of the monetary stimulus that’s been keeping markets afloat. …
One of them learns how to avoid impulse buys and save up in order to achieve longer-term goals. As for the other: “Me really want cookie!”
Today’s piece by Diane Cardwell in The New York Times made the case that demand is robust and living is easy at high-end rentals, apartments or townhouses — where monthly rent starts at $10,000. The picture is half-right. As an …
“History suggests that business doesn’t always know what’s good for it.”
During a Southwest Airlines sale, flights start at just $29 one way on routes such as Louisville to Birmingham; $39 (Baltimore-Norfolk, Boston-Philadelphia, Midland-Albuquerque); $49 (San Diego-Phoenix, Pittsburgh-Baltimore); $59 (Reno-Boise, Phoenix-Los Angeles); and $74 (Detroit-Chicago, Sacramento-Las Vegas, Newark-Baltimore). Tickets …
The modern-day world is seriously lacking in satisfied customers. A new report reveals that 64% of consumers stomped out of a store in the past year because of frustration with the awful customer service, and 67% hung up the …
As gas prices soar across the United States, I decided to spend a month walking instead of driving whenever possible.
It now appears that Greece will once again be bailed out of its financial morass. A year ago at this time, the world was roiled by the prospect of Greece defaulting on its considerable debts, and only the reluctant decision of …
Just as investors were starting to hope that the worst was past, last week the stock market suffered its worst decline in nearly seven years.
Headlines attributed the slump to unexpectedly bad economic numbers. But you have to …
It’s hard to argue that the rise of China, taken on the whole, is anything but good for the global economy. New wealth for China’s 1.3 billion people means 1.3 billion more people who can buy stuff from the rest of the world, creating jobs from American research labs to Japanese industrial zones to Brazilian mines. A global economy …
