On Feb. 19, MarketWatch.com, the Dow Jones subsidiary that provides stock market quotes and business and financial news, reported that executives of China’s Cnooc Ltd. asked to delay the signing of
Editor Notes
I was glued to the television every night from the “day of rage” on Jan. 25 to Feb. 11, as an anti-government protest in Egypt morphed into a full-blown revolution that ended the 30-year reign of
Discrimination is a multimillion-dollar cost factor in the business of doing business. Perpetrators have to pay up when caught: victims must be compensated; lawyers must be paid; and, in the after
Every Christmas, for the few years that my brothers and I attended her Sunday school, Ms. Smith recounted the story of a little boy who, when asked to explain the significance of Christmas, said, “C
On Saturdays, I like to walk around the commercial section of my community. It’s a bustling enclave of small businesses, stretching several blocks in either direction of the intersection of two of t
If imitation is the best form of flattery, then the jobless immigrants who introduced dollar vans to U.S. commerce are due for some puffing up. So, too, does the informal economy, where dollar van-typ
Nothing is sweeter than the cry “Fight!” on a warm day in grade school. As summer temperatures tug at lawmakers in Washington, a fight has broken out between Sen. Byron L. Dorgan, a North Dakota d
In his State of the Union address in January, President Obama announced a goal of doubling the country’s exports over the next five years to support two million jobs. Making the link between exports
As a child I learned to fear ignorance. My mother would open her eyes wide and wag her hand menacingly as she dismissed a senseless argument with the words, “I don’t deal with ignorance!” Litera
At January’s World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, the five co-chairs, including Aetna Chairman and CEO Ronald A. Williams, shared their thoughts on actions most urgently needed as we revamp t