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There Is No Gas Shortage
Publish Date: 4/02/08
By: Ed Wallace - business week.com

"They see speculation in the market, I see decline in global inventories. I don't think this is a big surprise, that we've had a jump in price when there has been a decrease in crude inventories." Energy Secretary Sam Bodman, Bloomberg News, Mar. 5, ...

So, Should I Be a Techie?
Publish Date: 1/23/08
By: Dr. Walt Atkins, Turning Point Magazine

As you know, this column focuses on practical coaching to small businesses. Productivity is in vogue in large and small businesses. This month we look at using technology to be more productive in your business. I've found many clients are not technic ...

Is Recession the R Word?
Publish Date: 12/19/07
By: Deborah Owens

Could the New Year bring tidings of ill will? Dolf DeRoos, author and real estate expert, doesn't think so. He believes this is an excellent time for "investors and not speculators" to start looking for properties that can provide positive cash flows ...

Learning from Student Businesses
Publish Date: 11/30/07
By: Francesca Di Meglio

In 2001, MBAs at the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business opened up the Smith Store, a shop that sold university paraphernalia, such as logo T-shirts, and bulk orders for special events at the university. The goal was to provid ...

Entrepreneurs, Don't Wreck Yourselves
Publish Date: 11/26/07
By: Alfred Edmond, Jr.

Entrepreneurs, Don't Wreck Yourselves Beware of these self-inflicted mistakes Starting a business will have enough external turmoil, so do all you can to minimize the drama you will bring to your own table. Here are a few rules you ...

Alabama unemployment falls to record low, 3.1%; metro Birmingham jobless rate its second lowest ever
Publish Date: 11/17/07
By: ROY L. WILLIAMS

Alabama's jobless rate fell to a record low of 3.1 percent in October, state labor figures released Friday show. The number of Alabamians listed as unemployed also declined to a record low 68,457, beating the record of 72,431 set in April. The Oc ...

Study: Income Gap Between Black And White Families Grows
Publish Date: 11/13/07
By: Associated Press

WASHINGTON  Decades after the civil rights movement, the income gap between black and white families has grown, according to a new study that tracked the incomes of some 2,300 families for more than 30 years. Incomes have increased among both bla ...

TELEVANGELISTS FINANCIALLY SCREENED: Eddie Long and Creflo Dollar among those targeted.
Publish Date: 11/08/07
By: EURweb.com

*The mass wealth and extravagant lifestyles of such televangelists as Creflo Dollar, Eddie Long and Paula White are being called into question by a U.S. Senator who has requested info detailing their various financial records. Sen. Charles Grassle ...

Canadian Dollar Closes Above US Greenback
Publish Date: 10/01/07
By: Rick Moran - American Thinker

For the first time since November of 1976, the Canadian dollar is more valuable in the currency markets than the American Greenback. Uncertainty in the US economy is causing a stampede away from the dollar and into other currencies like the Euro. ...

Africans more likely to be entrepreneurs
Publish Date: 10/01/07
By: BBC News

Africans, or people of African descent, living in Western countries are five times more likely to start their own businesses than their white counterparts, new statistics show. The Global Entrepreneurship Monitor also found that Asian immigrants ...

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