In The Headlines Loan Trading: A $1 Trillion Market Moving in Slow Motion Imagine a trillion-dollar business that runs on phone calls and faxes and routinely ties up money for months while investors receive no interest. That is how it goes in the market for leveraged loans—those made to highly indebted [...]
In The Headlines Braveheart Revisited – Scots Vote on Independence This week Scotland’s voters take to the polls to determine whether they want to break off from the United Kingdom. And while a vote in favor of independence from the U.K. would simply be the beginning of a long and complex [...]
In The Headlines Shopping Shift – Retailers Confront a New Consumer Reality After years of slow to stagnant growth, some experts worry that the entire retail sector is now shifting into a fundamental decline. At a time of year when U.S. retailers should be riding the annual wave of back-to-school spending [...]
In The Headlines Walmart Becomes a Healthcare Provider Wal-Mart has been conservative when it comes to retail clinics, partnering with regional hospitals to offer services like flu shots. But now, the retailer is taking a more aggressive tack, with in-store branded clinics offering primary care at a price competitors may find [...]
In The Headlines Zippo: Finding a New Light As the third-generation owner of Zippo Manufacturing Co., George Blaisdell Duke is often asked how the company remains in business. America does not light up as much as it used to, so it is a reasonable question for the most famous maker of [...]
In The Headlines Is the Expansion Still in its Infancy? Since World War II, five years has been the average length of an economic expansion in the U.S. The current expansion began in July 2009, just over five years ago. That fact would seem to suggest that the U.S. is about [...]
In The Headlines Old Laws Create a California Water Divide Last summer, in the second year of California’s latest dry spell, a farmer in the state’s Central Valley, paid $250 an acre-foot for water to irrigate his almonds, cherries, tomatoes, and cotton. (An acre-foot is enough to cover an acre with [...]
In The Headlines High Stakes Economic Poker in Africa The 1990s stand out as a hugely pivotal time in the geopolitics surrounding Africa. With the Cold War over, the U.S. turned its attention away from the continent, largely defining its problems as humanitarian issues, which are traditionally the lowest station of [...]
In The Headlines Machine Tool Vending Machines Come to the Shop Floor An episode of The Office involved a prank by co-workers on a hapless colleague. The victim’s desk contents—his stapler, pencil cup, plate, even his wallet—were stashed inside the office vending machine. Now an industrial supply company has turned that [...]
In The Headlines They’re Back - Junk Bonds Boom as Investors Seek Bigger Yields After five and a half years of the Federal Reserve keeping short-term interest rates near zero, investors say they have no choice but to seek ever-riskier securities to generate any type of return. That means almost any [...]
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