In the finance industry, where the footnotes are almost always more important than the body of the text, the most under-footnoted sentence ever is this one: “People should invest in what they know.” It is a crowd-pleasing and straightforward bit of prose, so what’s the problem? Plenty, and let’s use this week’s epochal Facebookinitial public offeringto explain why

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Despite all the advances in payment technology, financial consumers are reluctant to give up on the chequebook, a survey has claimed.

Seattle venture capitalist Nick Hanauer -- an early investor in Amazon.com and aQuantive -- certainly has strong opinions on economics and politics. And that's one of the reasons why he was invited to give a TED talk a few months ago, sharing his pointed v iews on why the wealthiest Americans should pay more in taxes.

Lamborghini Gallardo crash wrecks driver's reputation in suburban Chicago intersection. Captured at an intersection in Wheeling, Ill.

The hottest commodity in the US agricultural market is not wheat, corn or soyabean – but rather the very farmland used to grow those and other crops. The Chicago and Kansas City branches of the Federal Reserve have reported this week unusual price

With all the talk of massive amounts of cash sloshing around the web/mobile startup ecosystem (including things I've said recently), you would think that nobody bootstraps anymore. But that is not true at all. Last week my partner Albert blogged...

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