Recession

The volatility that marked energy markets over the past year is almost guaranteed to continue in 2012. Geopolitical factors, such as Europe's financial crisis and conflicts with Iran and other regions, make long-range...

HEADNOTE On November 15, 2011, the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago held a conference to explore what has been driving the large and rapid increases in Midwest farmland values. Academics, industry representatives, and...

HEADNOTE According to participants in the Chicago Fed's annual Economic Outlook Symposium, the U.S. economy is forecasted to grow at a pace below its historical average in 2012, following a year with an...

Hackensack, NJ - Kitchen & Bath Design News will mark the kickoff this month of its annual series of all-day design and business management seminars, opening 2012 with a seminar in West Palm...

HEADNOTE The future of business is pure chaos. Here's how you can survive- and perhaps even thrive. DJ Patii pulls a 2-foot-long metal bar from his backpack. The contraption, which he calls a...

Uderstanding the developing trends in any market segment is critical to having a successful year. 2012 promises many changes in the insurance industry, but particularly in the environmental segment. Events are finally moving...

Since moving to Branson, Mo., I have become a student of nature due to the pageantry of wildlife in our backyard. The other morning I was marveling at half a dozen squirrels that...

CAMBRIDGE, MA-Consumers who previously purchased green products and services have decreased their green purchasing as a result of the recession, while the number of green consumers in the U.S. is declining as the...

HEADNOTE Big Bang Design A Detroit program is designing new ways to keep kids from lighting up. Can mint-green baseball caps, dodgeballs stenciled with the number "i200," and a whist tournament dissuade kids...

What a decade the 1990s was: The U.S. climbed from recession to budget surplus, unemployment was low, and there were music videosonTV.Oureconomymaybestucklnthe '80s, but the pop culture of the '90s is backand folks...

Imagine your prospect's sticker shock when your company's price is 50% higher than other firms for what they perceive as essentially the same layout and cabinet quality. Let's say the project is for...

My friends often joke that the first week of January is for making New Year's resolutions, and the next three weeks are for breaking them. February is when you begin to look at...

HEADNOTE The seventh annual Community Bankers Symposium, co-sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), was held...

Byline: Samuel S. Spencer Jr. As a community banker in New Mexico for more than three decades, I am compelled to respond to recent news articles and opinion pieces that overstate the level...

Byline: Bill Jordan Taxes matter. Despite the beating they get in public discourse, taxes are not bad. They are not to "blame" for any number of evils. They are simply a tool. Taxes...

Byline: Staff and wire reports Days remaining in session: 16 Avoiding a Senate shootout: Sen. Dede Feldman, D-Albuquerque, wants to ban the carrying of firearms on the Senate floor, in the Senate Gallery...

In his third State of the Union address to the US Congress, President Barack Obama on Jan. 24 said he was "determined to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon", stressing: "I will...

Revenue for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2011 was $17.9 million, compared to $16.7 million for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2010. Net earnings for the fiscal year 2011 were $1.3 million or...

The recently released Long Island Economic Survey and Opinion poll showed while local business professionals are slightly more confident about the economy than last year, that optimism has remained relatively flat. But don't...