I remember, in the early days of the Euro, feeling puzzled and wondering if the new currency would really catch on.

I grew up in Stuttgart – spent my teenage years visiting beaches in Spain, cath…

The Euro has been around for almost 20 years now as an idea, an obligation on member states of the European Union under the 1992 Maastricht Treaty. On January 1, 1999 the Euro moved from being an id…

You have a small business which you have just started from your home and you can't afford to invest in large infrastructure and servers at present. You have a single computer which is used for sav…

I don't usually write about politics here. But I saw a blog post recently that seemed to summarize clearly the economic impact of the Bush (43) presidency. I say economic impact because the pol…

Does your business need a security system?

Many business professionals seem to think that security systems are important if you're in a competitive industry with lots of technology or trade s…

Paul Kedrosky thinks the leading startups in the tech industry have either gone crazy or are about to issue IPOs. And last week TechCrunch's Erick Schonfeld came up with a "top ten" l…

As news of the somewhat improved jobs picture creates some small dregree of hope that the economy may really be improving, I came across this enlighting piece of historical perspective on jobs cre…

A recent Forbes article points out that America's richest people have become a little less rich as a result of the recession. VentureBeat took a look at the numbers…Warren Buffett's wealth …

Get Rich Slowly had an interesting post recently that presented the big picture of the US tax situation.

The article puts corporate income tax in its context in the larger revenue picture for the Fed…

The debate over healthcare (and health insurance reform) is far from over. A piece of proposed legislation, H.R. 3200, has gotten a lot of scrutiny. But there is no single, unified bill before tghe w…