A look at the ten retailers who are growing their top lines the fastest, and how they’re achieving their success.
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China Makes iPads. So Why Does It Still Cut Corners For Its Own Consumers?
Consumers in China are all too familiar with the realities of shopping locally. In the kingdom of “caveat emptor,” the buyer who doesn’t beware faces a daily gamut of frustration and disappointment with substandard purchases — …
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How Higher Fuel Prices Could Help American Manufacturing
The revival of Detroit has been a big story over the past couple of weeks. All three major automakers have posted their best profits in years, and GM posted its highest ever-annual profits earlier this month. It’s a boon for …
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Three Economic Lessons Imported From Turkey
I just returned from a week in Istanbul, where I was reporting a piece on what Turkey’s burgeoning contemporary art scene tells us about where the country is headed politically (you can look for that in our upcoming style and …
Is ‘Made in America’ Back In Style?
My grandparents had two criteria for buying a car: It had to be blue, and it had to be American. The last time they purchased a car was in the ’90s, when American car companies didn’t have the best reputations for quality or …
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Is U.S. Manufacturing Really Back?
Is America in the middle of a manufacturing job revival? The latest numbers would make it seem so. The U.S. has added more net manufacturing jobs since the start of 2010 than the rest of the G7 nations put together, with only two …
U.S. Stocks Rise on Strong Economic Data; Oil Jumps on Iran Threat
U.S. stock prices jumped higher on the first trading day of 2012 after new economic data showed gains in construction and manufacturing activity. Meanwhile, oil prices surged amid escalating tensions between the U.S. and Iran, …
Could U.S. Manufacturing Slump Signal a Downward Slide?
Stocks are about 3.5% cheaper than they were a week ago, and for value-hungry investors, that number could go even lower this week once reality sets in.
Guest Column: Staying Quiet About China is a Dangerous Approach
Zachary Karabell’s June 9 article, “How Can Americans Get China to Do What They Want? For Starters, Shut Up,” promotes a dangerous approach that allows China to freely continue its mercantilist economic policies without …
Economic Doom, By the Numbers
Unemployment, misery, workplace dissatisfaction, the disappearing American Dream, forecasts of another Great Depression … Yikes!
The Upside of a Double Dip
A slew of economic indicators out this week has ratcheted up fears of a double dip recession. Many think Friday’s jobs’ report could be the death knell of the U.S. recovery. But there’s a silver lining to the disappointing stats on housing, jobs, and manufacturing: No matter how bad it gets, the dollar will probably stay weak. And …
A Surprising Jobs Recovery: American Manufacturing is Back
Post Updated: 1:30, Monday, May 16.
The jobs rebound came early at the Case I-H farm equipment factory in Grand Island, Neb. Last September, when many companies were still cutting employees, Bill Baasch, the manager at the Grand Island plant, which manufactures combines – the large vehicles that harvest grain crops – was hiring. In …
