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A growing pack of bears is now clawing away at China.Much of the world might have bought into the miracle of China, but there's a significant platoon of heavyweight investment strategists and market

Last week, I confessed to a frugal heresy. Namely, we don't clip coupons. So how are we saving money if we're not busy annoying the people in line behind us with a huge coupon stash?In a nutshell, we

When last we caught up with researcher Jim Taylor, vice chairman of The Harrison Group, he talked all about the emerging new resourcefulness of consumers. This week, delivering an update on the behav

Editor's Note: This article was written by Minyan Kevin Dougherty, a portfolio manager at Pharos Financial Group, a specialist investor in emerging markets. Kevin manages three funds, the Pharos

Have you wished that back in the middle of 2003, you'd recognized that the economy was recovering, and that when Apple’s (AAPL) new Macs and iPods were starting to fly off the shelves, you'd pu

"Gerber baby" is synonymous with “cute, all-American child.” Just one thing: Gerber is part of Nestle (NSRGY), the Swiss conglomerate best known for chocolate. Few shoppers j

Are your work weeks feeling nasty, brutish, but not short? We at Minyanville know just how you feel. So, we went in search of quick cures, in the form of short vacations that heal mind and body. And

It’s never been hard to find a small group of Cassandras, so-called “doomers” who see the apocalypse foreshadowed in Mayan calendars, Nostradamus writings, and the Terminator movies

  I saw Julie & Julia weeks ago and, ever since, have had boeuf bourguignon on the brain. Or, as the movie's Julie Powell put it: "Julia Child's boeuf bourguignon." But the d