At the risk of restating a sentiment voiced by almost everyone who's seen it, Pixar's (DIS) WALL-E is one of the purest, most heartfelt love stories to grace the silver screen in ages. But it's also

Vampires are a poor man’s Faust, and everyone knows the bargain goes bad. But zombies are a metaphor lively enough to encompass slavery, Nazis, capitalism, infectious disease, consumerism, and

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 with a retailer

Editor's Note: This is part 3 in a multi-part series. Part 1 can be found here. Part 2 can be found here.On the day last week when the Dow crept into positive territory for the year (then up by

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"Quality is a characteristic of thought and statement that is recognized by a non-thinking process. Because definitions are a product of rigid, formal thinking, quality cannot be defined."-

This Time, It's DifferentBen Bernanke's career will be analyzed and written about for many years. But the one thing that's caused me the most pain is his bringing the term "green shoots" in

1) Economics 101Whenever I mention to friends that I see a structural shift in consumer behavior and attitudes, it's almost universally dismissed as some kind of crackpot theory. Which is true, but o

As lawmakers busily laud their own efforts to unlock credit markets and jumpstart lending, consumers yawn. They just don’t want to spend. And it’s not just those out of work who are

The Senate approved a stimulus bill of about $838 billion on Tuesday, with the 61-to-37 vote largely falling along party lines. Until the bitter end, bickering was the order of the day: New York