The Japanese are the world’s most voracious consumers of luxury goods, from Louis Vuitton handbags to Cartier jewelry to Hermes high fashion. So purveyors of those luxury goods are justifiably worried about the effect of the Ja…
The economy has had more than its share of trouble lately: Japan’s earthquake comes on top of rising oil and food prices, political turmoil in the Middle East and a crop of government austerity measures. But investing opportuni…
With 20,000 attendees and corporate outposts by the score, this year’s South by Southwest Interactive has a carnival-like atmosphere. From its origin as a sort of spring break for nerds, the event has grown into something more …
Toyota, Nissan and Honda, among other companies, have shut down plants temporarily in Japan in the wake of Friday’s earthquake and tsunami. While many of their factories were undamaged, crippled nuclear plants are causing power…
The U.S. set the forces of globalization in motion, and now more than ever, it’s clear we’re suffering the consequences: high unemployment, stagnant or declining incomes, and rising costs for goods. Can the policies of the surg…