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.

Over the Moon! Most Expensive Christmas Present Ever

By Maureen Mackey, The Fiscal Times

The Golden Spike Company, a startup that aims to “transform human space exploration” and to “monetize the exploration of the Moon,” last week announced it’s going to organize manned commercial...
Apple’s Big Manufacturing Boom to the US—200 Jobs

By Patrick Smith

At the end of last week, CEO Timothy Cook announced that the company intends to invest $100 million next year to relaunch part of its manufacturing operations in the US. Apple and Foxconn, the...
Why Everything You Know About Charitable Giving Is Wrong

By Maureen Mackey, The Fiscal Times

Charities see a huge spike in financial donations in the waning days of December, during the holiday season – but giving away your hard-earned money in a rush at the end of the year really isn't the...
Week Ahead: Dumping Stocks at the Foot of the “Cliff"

By Caroline Valetkevitch, Reuters

Investors typically sell stocks to cut their losses at year end. But worries about the "fiscal cliff" - and the possibility of higher taxes in 2013 - may act as the greatest incentive to sell both...
Why Millionaires Prefer Dogs Over Cats

By Robert Frank, CNBC

Dogs and millionaires have a lot in common. They are relentless opportunists (especially when it comes to rewards). They come in all shapes, sizes and colors. They defend their turf. And in general,...

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