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The phrase "a perfect storm" has been around for some time, but it is most closely associated today with a meteorological event that exploded in the northern Atlantic in the [...]

The most successful industrialists of America's Gilded Age were often skewered by contemporary critics as being robber barons. A new generation of naysayers wants to recycle the old rhetoric, this [...]

Amid the complexities of U.S. healthcare, there is probably no construct that's more byzantine than the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS)--the program's elaborate system of paying physicians and other clinicians [...]

Drive through rural New England and you'll see them: 'connected farms,' cobbling together houses, sheds, barns and outbuildings in disjointed structures. Often centuries old, they are at once unlovely, yet [...]

Signs that the United States is in the midst of a healthcare workforce crisis are everywhere: * More than 7,000 nurses returned to work in January at two major New [...]

Close to 75% of Americans with private health insurance now participate in some form of managed care. HMOs help cut costs and work well for some patients, but they can also be impersonal and offer inferior care. Tips on how to choose a managed care provider and get quality service are given.

Coca-Cola Co., Microsoft Corp. and other top global companies are successful in the international marketplace because of their extensive expansion strategy. Timing and cultural and political adaptation are important considerations, in addition to traditional business strategies.

Small and medium-size companies in the fields of telecomunications, high-tech and information systems are planning expansion in the international marketplace. The Dept of Commerce has pledged assistance to these firms as they create six out of every ten new jobs in the national economy.

Consumer debt is $14 trillion and mortgages are at $4 trillion. Corporate and government debt mirror this burden. However debt, and therefore credit, can be looked on as an asset and a means to an end. A US without debt would be a different place, and a more uncomfortable place.

The Clinton administration's health-reform plan contains several benefits that will be advantageous to working women, including long-term care, universal coverage and more school-based clinics. Women, led by Hillary Rodham Clinton, played an important part in formulating the plan.

Laura D'Andrea Tyson, the first woman to head the Council of Economic Advisers, is frequently consulted by Pres Clinton or Mrs Clinton on economic effects of budget and health care proposals. Prior to her appointment, Tyson was an economics professor at the University of California at Berkeley.

How the prosperous eighties came to be--and how we can get back there Let me make one thing clear at the outset: I believe in low marginal tax rates. In [...]

How the prosperous eighties came to be--and how we can get back there Let me make one thing clear at the outset: I believe in low marginal tax rates. In [...]