Last week in Small Business CEO, I read a story about a small business that was calling it quits due to "high oil prices and the economy" (my paraphrase). Two comments in that blog disgusted me, mostly because the owner appeared to be stuck in a mental

There was an interesting article in last Tuesday's Wall Street Journal titled "Watch Out for Sovereign Debt Risk" by Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff, a couple of economics professors at the universities of Maryland and Harvard respectively.

Each night, many watch the national news and get one grim report after another about the nation’s economy. Perhaps none watch the details with a more keen eye than business owners and those in management positions.

One of the nation's most influential economic policymakers will address the University of California, San Diego Economics Roundtable on July 7 when Janet Yellen, President of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, speaks on the topic, "Prospects for

Longtime Detroit News columnist Daniel Howes is a finalist in the prestigious 2008 Gerald Loeb Awards for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism, along with Detroit News staff writer Bryce Hoffman, photographer John Greilick and online producer R