(Editor's Note: Minyanville welcomes Jessie Smith, who will share her journey from deep debt to financial freedom every Tuesday and Thursday in Going for Broke ... and Back.)You like the title? Almos

For the tobacco industry, there’s a lot of money to be made by getting people hooked on cigarettes and keeping them as customers for life. But smoking cessation products are increasingly sendin

A consultant is a jerk from out of town with slides.-- a CEO who prefers to remain unnamed (in case he needs to hire another consultant)You need to get something done and you can’t get it done

The pink slips have been handed out, the severance checks cashed, and the farewell drinks consumed. Everyone has offered their condolences to those who were let go, yet you’re still here, reeli

Forget Armani, highballs, and Beamers. For decades, cocaine has been a prevailing vice among day traders, bankers, and brokers -- becoming so ingrained with New York's financial district that the cor

Editor's Note: This article was written by James Quinn, a senior director of strategic planning for a major university. James has held high-level financial positions wit

John Mauldin coined the incredibly popular phrase “Muddle Through Economy.” If the next few years continue to drag along as we rebuild from the greatest credit bubble in history, then Joh

We’ve arrived at this particular economic moment in time by the choices we’ve made, which now leave us with choices in our future that will be neither easy, nor convenient, nor comfortabl

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At a recent cybersecurity conference in Las Vegas, Charlie Miller of Independent Security Evaluators demonstrated how a hacker could take control of an Apple (AAPL) iPhone by sending a series of