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It’s Small Business Saturday. Has that concept been successful in the U.S.?

Posted on by Ted Bauer

Small Business Saturday 2012 registered about $4.5 billion in sales two years after being created (the concept was) by American Express. By some estimates, Black Friday 2012 registered about three times the sales ($11-$12 billion); that was even a drop of… Continue Reading →

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Poland, a country with basically 200 years of tragic history, is now Europe’s most vibrant economy

Posted on by Ted Bauer

Consider this: only 20 years ago, the Russian army still had troops in Poland. Democracy in Poland didn’t even start to gain steam as an idea until June of 1989, and that followed a long period where many economic observers… Continue Reading →