Columbus may have been the world’s greatest entrepreneur: He set out not knowing where he was going, didn’t know where he was when he got there … and did it all on someone else’s dime. He succeeded in proving that the world is round, but six centuries later author Thomas Friedman gives us reason to [...]
August 29, 2005 | Posted in
Health & Living,
Trends |
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Recent attention given to the financial troubles of the airlines underscores the importance of transportation systems to our economy. Indeed, the so-called “Dow Theory” used by technical analysts to predict major market movement, uses the Dow Jones Transportation Index as an integral element for such predictions.
Charles Dow, father of the Wall Street Journal and developer [...]
August 26, 2005 | Posted in
Economy |
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Sooner or later it dawns on us that taking our wealth with us when we check out is not an option. Leaving it to Junior who, with various body piercings, tattoos, and questionable friends, is interested in spending, not managing, the wealth, is also not an option. The English, about the time of Robin Hood, [...]
August 15, 2005 | Posted in
Taxes |
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That nasty “I” word…inflation is making headlines again and helping to kick stock prices around like a ping-pong ball. Just about the time we have grown accustomed to what economists like to call “benign” inflation, prices are inching up.
The classic definition of inflation is a persistent increase in the price of goods and services in [...]
by Wendell Cayton
“Of course I am a little nervous about what you do, what fills your day,” he added. “I will miss day-in, day-out competition. The reality is that I don’t ever have to work again, which is a nice reality. But that’s not my character. My character is to work and to be goal [...]
August 1, 2005 | Posted in
Opinion |
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