This holiday season, J.C. Penney (JCP) CEO and Chairman Myron E. Ullman III is armed with a lineup of exclusive fashion brands he helped bring to the department store chain, and he's ready to battle

Albert Einstein once said that the definition of insanity was doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. Through that lens, the current course of fiscal and monetary po

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

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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

Is it wrong that it’s only Wednesday and I’m already thinking about the weekend?Asian stocks got thumped overnight. The Hang Seng and the Nikkei were off 1.84% and 1.35%, respectively. Eu

So I'm writing a column about how to save money. I should be clipping coupons and showing you how to get stuff for free, right? All sorts of money-saving columns out there offer tips or discuss the t

Old habits die-hard and die-hard habits rarely get old. Case in point this past weekend as Bobby rocked the Beacon, the Raiders took a spanking (New York teams have outscored Oakland 82-7 this season

What’s a Fed to do? We get talk about tightening and taking away the easy credit, but we got the fourth largest monetization on record last week. This week we examine the elements of deflation,

In times of financial insecurity, it seems reasonable to assume that Americans will lean firmer on their sinful addictions to muddle through the stress and volatility brought on by harsh economic tim