The China Opportunity

By Vidhan Rana According to IMF’s calculations, China will eclipse the United States as the world’s largest economy in 2016. China has 1.3 billion consumers whose incomes are rising and whose demand for products and services is accelerating. This is a great...

Where Do Jobs Come From?

By Dean Whittaker With globalization has come the ability to source work anywhere in the world. The economic thought was that as the world economy grew, the demand for our goods and services would grow too, and we would all prosper. As we now know, things haven’t...

Google+ Features

By Jami Gibson Google+ is rapidly expanding its reach since it was launched three months ago, and it will definitely give other social networking giants a run for their money. The new service seems to be everything that Facebook, Twitter, and other sites are not,...

The Rise of Small Business

By Vidhan Rana In the past year or so, you may have heard a lot of talk about how small businesses are providing the fuel for the American economy. You read about how startups are creating jobs for those laid off by large corporations. You can see it in your community...

Wisdom and Hope

By Dean Whittaker While driving from Michigan to Connecticut this month, I noticed that the federal economic data that I had been hearing about in the media did not jive with what I was observing during my travels. What I saw was factory after factory with full...