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Weather's Weird Role in the Slowing Economy
Tweet Share on Facebook June 29, 2012 CommentBright sun and a mild breeze usually make everybody feel better. But temperate weather may be casting clouds over the economy.
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How Obama Can Win Back Small Business
Tweet Share on Facebook June 29, 2012 CommentPresident Obama and the small business community are barely on speaking terms.
Obama's landmark healthcare law, now upheld by the Supreme Court, is supposed to help small businesses pay for health insurance for their employees. And it was deliberately designed to exempt firms with fewer than 50 workers from fines levied against employers that don't offer coverage.
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The Healthcare Reforms We Still Desperately Need
Tweet Share on Facebook June 28, 2012 CommentHooray for Obamacare. It stands. The Supreme Court has ruled it constitutional.
So our healthcare problems will be solved in a few years, when the law is fully in effect, right?
Not by a long shot.
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The Unintended Consequences of the Supreme Court's Healthcare Ruling
Tweet Share on Facebook June 28, 2012 CommentThe Supreme Court settled one matter when it upheld the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act: President Barack Obama's landmark health reform law is constitutional and will go into effect as originally planned. But a wide range of unintended consequences could ripple outward from the court's historic decision.
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How the Supreme Court Obamacare Ruling Could Harm the Economy
Tweet Share on Facebook June 28, 2012 CommentBusiness leaders are ambivalent about the massive health reform law the Supreme Court has now upheld. Some oppose its intrusive reach into the healthcare system. Others recognize the legitimate problems it's meant to address, and support the effort to insure more Americans.
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Why the Fight Against Obamacare Will Continue
Tweet Share on Facebook June 28, 2012 CommentPresident Obama has won the latest round in the country's healthcare fight. The Supreme Court has ruled that his landmark health reform act, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, can stand.
But it could still be a long time before the law goes into effect as Obama and his supporters envision.
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With the New Google Nexus, a Tablet In Every Pot
Tweet Share on Facebook June 27, 2012 CommentYou heard it here first: Before long, everybody's going to have a tablet computer.
The latest entrant in this exploding market is the Google Nexus, a 7-inch gizmo roughly the size and price of Amazon's Kindle Fire. If you thought that Google was already in the market for tablets, you weren't imagining things. Google makes the Android software that powers bigger tablets made by manufacturers such as Samsung, Sony, Motorola and Asus.
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Romney's Outsourcing Expertise Could Make Him a Strong President
Tweet Share on Facebook June 27, 2012 CommentIn the military, the best way to gather intelligence on the enemy's operations is to recruit a spy from within its ranks.
The same might be true for fixing the economy.
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Consumer Confidence Wilts
Tweet Share on Facebook June 26, 2012 CommentAmericans may not know all the details, but they do know that problems in Europe spell trouble here at home—and are likely to get worse before they get better.
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Women Can't Have It All Because Nobody Can Have It All
Tweet Share on Facebook June 26, 2012 CommentWorking Moms can face intense pressure to perform at the office, fulfill every demand as a parent, and still keep up with the nice-to-do stuff like working out and making time for date night.
But a lot of that pressure comes from an unlikely source: themselves.
