Small Business

How Millennials Could Make or Break the Brexit Vote

By Suman Bhattacharyya

In the final days before the referendum on Britain leaving the EU, poll numbers show the “leave” and “remain” sides in a dead heat. The Financial Times Brexit poll of polls has “leave” at 45 percent...
13 Tax Tips for Self-Employed Workers in 2016

By Janna Herron

The gig economy often means trickier taxes for self-employed workers. A third of the American workforce falls into that category, according to TurboTax, including 3.2 million on-demand workers, like...
How To Become an Everyday Millionaire…From Those Who’ve Done It

By Janna Herron

When you picture a millionaire’s lifestyle, does townhouse living or budgeting only $40,000 a year come to mind? Probably not. But it’s that type of frugal living that helped four everyday people to...
The Naughty Employee Costing Your Company More Than $12,000

By Millie Dent

We all have those colleagues who criticize you to co-workers behind your back, make rude remarks about your outfit or demand extra work from everyone but themselves. These toxic behaviors might be...
Employees Are Paying More – Much More – for Health Care

By Beth Braverman

While wages have been stagnant over the past decade, the amount that workers pay for employer-sponsored health insurance has more than doubled. Average employees at mid-size and large companies paid...

Behind Every Successful Woman, There’s a Clock

By Beth Braverman

Author Laura Vanderkam has made a career out of studying how people spend their time. For her latest book, I Know How She Does It: How Successful Women Make the Most of Their Time , Vanderkam looked...
10 Worst States for Working Mothers

By Marine Cole

Working mothers may want to avoid moving to the South, where the quality of child care leaves a lot to be desired and professional opportunities are scarce.
What Successful People Don't Say at Work

By Travis Bradberry, Inc.com

You can't build a strong professional network if you don't open up to your colleagues; but doing so is tricky, because revealing the wrong things can have a devastating effect on your career.
10 Worst Cities to Start a Business in 2015

By Marine Cole

If you’re about to start a business, you may want to stay away from the New York City area and from the Los Angeles and San Francisco areas.
10 Best Cities to Start a Business

By Marine Cole

Some of the best cities to start a business are located in the South, where resources for small companies are often more available and more affordable than in Silicon Valley or the New York area.

Student Loan Debt Gets a Daring New Fix

By Maureen Mackey, The Fiscal Times

Niagara Falls, whose downtown has fallen into disrepair over the years as its population has plunged, needs bright young college graduates. And it’s got a new plan to attract them: an attractive...
'We're Not Too Big to Fail,' Claim 9 Big Banks

By ALEXANDRA ALPER and DAVID HENRY, Reuters

Nine of the largest global banks on Tuesday expressed confidence they can be salvaged or dismantled without taxpayer bailouts if they became insolvent, as U.S. regulators released public portions of...
Airbus in America: Foothold (and Jobs) in Alabama

By Kelli Dugan and Karen Jacobs and Tim Hepher, Reuters

Airbus is about to get a Green Card. Plans to build a $600 million plant in Mobile, Alabama, to produce A320 passenger planes will give Europe's jet maker a strategic foothold on U.S. soil while...
Big Thinkers, Big Data, and “Flawed” Economics

By Mark Thoma

After attending last year’s Economics Nobel Laureates Meeting in Lindau, Germany, I was very critical of what I heard from the laureates at the meeting . The conference is intended to bring graduate...
Hospitals React to Health Ruling: Cheers Plus Fears

By The Fiscal Times Staff

Everybody agreed hospitals would be the biggest business losers if the Supreme Court overthrew the health act. But last week's uling that preserved most of the law — along with the promise of...

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