It’s Friday and I am just itching for the weekend. On the agenda: my oldest daughter’s soccer game, a family get-together, and plans to sleep in at least one day. Chances are I might hit

Birds are singing, the sun is shining, and life is beautiful again. On the surface, the vital signs of our economy are improving with every economic report. In some areas, like unemployment, the rate

Frank Stronach, chairman and founder of Magna International (MGA), launched his empire by making 300,000 sun visor brackets for General Motors. The rest, as they say, is history.Nine years after the

Getting kicked down stairs at a small home-improvement company made Kenneth Langone rich and has saved millions of do-it-yourselfers big bucks.In 1978, the legendary investor got into a tiff with the

Friday’s successful launch of Dollar General’s (DG) IPO suggests the recession is a good time for deep discounters, or stores that offer rock-bottom prices to cash-strapped shoppers.Dolla

The October retail sales numbers released this morning present a very mixed bag. Excluding autos, strategists say they looked mediocre at best. More to the point, the recent decision of corporate ins

I’ve seen my fair share of CEOs lose sight of where their businesses are headed during restructuring periods, but Blockbuster’s (BBI) Jim Keyes is a lost soul.The 7-11 guru brought in to

No one goes into Walmart (WMT) and asks to pay extra sales tax. Thus sales taxes are reasonable barometers for retail sales. This week we look at how taxes are doing in a period of economic recovery.

Earnings season has now came to a close and for the most part, reports were better than expected. Thanks to cost cutting methods the majority of the companies were able to post bottom line beats. Ear

NPD reported that US video-game sales fell 19% in October as the industry suffered from tough comps and consumers pulled back from discretionary buys. It's not actually news, since we've recently see