The Easy-Bake Oven is falling victim to the fight against global warming. The incandescent light bulbs that heat the toy ovens are being phased out in 2012 in favor of energy-efficient compact fluorescents. But precisely becaus…
It’s still too early to measure how a devastating earthquake and tsunami in Japan will impact the U.S. economy. A few things, however, are all but certain.
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Many small investors have recently piled into commodities, especially copper, on the assumption that ever-growing demand from developing countries would keep sending prices skyward. Now they are learning a drop in demand is als…
In its most simple interpretation, a “pain point” is exactly what it sounds like: something so unpleasant that one is likely to try hard to avoid it or fix it. But buzzwords sometimes shift meanings, and for some boardroom jarg…
Japanese shares plummeted in the aftermath of what Prime Minister Naoto Kan describes as Japan’s worst disaster since 1945. The Nikkei 225 Index plunged 6.2%, wiping out this year’s gains and hitting its lowest level in four mo…