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As one of the world's original Renaissance men, founding father Benjamin Franklin cultivated an interest in and talent for a multitude of pursuits--politics, diplomacy, science, writing, and innovation, to name [...]

ITALIAN SCIENTIST GALILEO Galilei is credited with harnessing the power of data and ideas. His many contributions include the thermometer, telescope technology, and the discovery of Jupiter's four largest moons.Also [...]

LAST YEAR AT this time, big companies were expanding aggressively, as witnessed by the 10.4% jump in the S&P 500 index over the past year. Big technology companies in particular [...]

AN EXPERIENCED BANKER who's been in the industry since 1975 professes that the big 'aha' in banking is the value of a properly diversified customer portfolio. It is easy today [...]

We've all heard the advice to be patient--that good things take time. The Chicago Cubs had to lose over 100 games a few years ago, the thinking goes, to build [...]

GEORGE ORWELL'S FAMOUS book 1984, written in 1948, describes a future of government control by an elite few who prosecute thought-crime. Absent serious new thinking, community banking faces a 1984 [...]

Last year at this time, small businesses provided the one bright spot in a lackluster U.S. economy. GDP had grown just 0.6% in the first quarter of 2015 and, had [...]

'Reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated,' Mark Twain is said to have proclaimed in 1897 after hearing of a newspaper article that anticipated his demise. All these years [...]

PayNet research shows that small business activity kept the economic expansion intact in the first quarter. With default rates abnormally low, this sector has an opportunity to finance bigger projects [...]

On February 18, 1964, the Fab Four met The Greatest in Miami Beach, Florida. It was a meeting of the artistic and sports icons of that era. At the time, [...]

Credit risk from C&I ending remains moderate and opportunities can be found. But banks must remain vigilant as the effects of economic expansion and anticipated QE tapering take hold. ARNOLD [...]

SMALL BUSINESSES ARE among the most important drivers of U.S. economic growth and have become the centerpiece of the recovery. Although no one knows precisely how much small businesses contribute [...]

Business planning for 2013, one of the most difficult jobs in corporate America this year, is now under way in board rooms, conference rooms, and executive offices across the country. [...]

MANY ECONOMISTS ARE saying this economy is recovering at half-speed. Clearly, publicly held corporations, one half of the economy, have recovered. Their balance sheets carry cash at levels not seen [...]