American Business

It's the Economists, Stupid!

Jane Smiley | Posted 03.17.2008 | Business


Jane Smiley

Our economy, with all its volatility, is exactly the economy any sane person would have predicted after the wholesale decline of regulation, as both a reality and an idea, in the eighties and nineties.

Credit Flow To US Companies Decreasing At Fastest Pace In Decades

New York Times | PETER S. GOODMAN | Posted 11.28.2007 | Politics


Credit flowing to American companies is drying up at a pace not seen in decades, threatening the creation of jobs and the expansion of businesses, whi...

American Business: Bluffing Our Way to 3rd Place

Dan Agin | Posted 09.27.2007 | Business


Dan Agin

No country can survive long as a leading producer of goods when its reputation is based on superior bluff-and-cheat advertising rather than on superior quality of its goods.