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There has always been a lot of discussion about which is the best approach to managing sales people, activity based management or results based management. For the record, I'm 100% in the results based management camp. I...

While much of the nation is preoccupied with Obamacare and picking new health insurance at work, older Americans have deadlines of their own coming up -- involving Medicare.

WHEN it was discovered in 2000, the Kashagan oilfield in Kazakhstan's waters in the northern Caspian Sea was the world's biggest oil find in three decades. By now it was supposed to be pumping out 1.2m barrels a day (mbd...

Will 2014 spell doom for the last white House Democrat in the Deep South? THE best political ad of the 2012 election involved Congressman John Barrow and his favourite guns. A Democrat who represents a conservative part ...

The United States is one of the world's most prosperous economies, with a gross domestic product that exceeded that of any other country last year. However, a vibrant economy alone does not ensure all residents are well ...

A health-care worker who cared for the Ebola patient who died last week in Dallas has preliminarily tested positive for the disease, Texas health officials say, in what is likely to have been the first known transmission...

It's a street car that the owner says gets 21 mpg on the highway.          

Washington

Brian Chesky, the Airbnb co-founder and CEO, took some good-natured pokes at his company's controversial new logo. Cheskey, speaking on a panel at the Vanity Fair New Establishment Summit in...

This is how a market correction starts: Good news for consumers is bad for investors. Equity markets entered October on a slippery slope, given the historical markers for the scariest...

A state panel has granted tax breaks to Amazon.com for its new distribution center in Reno.

Apple's much-anticipated new operating system, iOS 8, was released to the public on Sept. 17.  Among the changes is something called widgets in the Notification Center. Widgets give you information at a glance, right fr...

I grew up in northern Baltimore County and was raised in a family business. My father owned it with a couple of partners. I held almost every position you could think of growing up through my early teens and into college...

Retirement is an opportunity for a new chapter of your life, expert says.          

Congress has a bill ready to cut the corporate tax rate to 25 percent as a measure in combating US firms merging with overseas companies to solely lower their tax...

When solar maker Solyndra collapsed, a lot of folks were rising up. Calling the $535 million federal loan guarantee a colossal display of crony capitalism, they had taken aim at the Obama administration and what they des...

WASHINGTON

Leaders of the International Monetary Fund said that high debt in China and a lack of spending in Europe, among other factors, could provoke a market convulsion.

Last week's stock market sell-off put the Dow Jones Industrial Average in the red for the year. "What strikes me most about all this is the sheer complacency," said Walter Zimmerman, chief technical analyst for United-IC...

Washington

Competition from synthetic fibers has damaged earnings for the country's wool exporters, and farmers are retooling their operations in response.

Who knows what may happen in the future but there are a number of very good reasons why other big clubs carrying a high level of total debt are not in danger of a large fine or suspension from European completion. In fac...