The pharmaceutical industry is ready to fall off a cliff — a “patent cliff.” Over the next few years, some of the world’s most popular and lucrative medicines will go off patent, and generic competition will siphon an estimate…
Retailers forecast that 2011 will be a year spent dealing with inflation, expanding stores and trying to wean shoppers off their markdown habit. Faced with rising costs that are pushing their prices higher, merchants say they …
Can you say image problem? For the first time in the more than 70 years that Gallup has been measuring the popularity of unions, in 2009 more than half the public didn’t approve of them. The current showdowns have plenty of pre…
Retailers are forecasting a strong 2011 as the economy continues to pick up speed. A boost in retail sales is good news, of course. But what, exactly, will it do for your wallet? And how will higher gasoline and clothing prices…
StopTheChamber, a group critical of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, says it was the target of a planned dirty tricks campaign. The group has filed an ethics complaint against three partners at the Hunton & Williams law firm.
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