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How Bob Birdsong overcame adversity to run a mega generator company Bob Birdsong is CEO, president and owner of OK Generators, the largest independent dealer of standby power systems in

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3 Ways to Earn Double-Digit Returns on Your Money — Guaranteed

Looking for a few easy ways to guarantee yourself a high rate of return? Here are three ideas you might want to consider. By: Brian Feroldi The S&P 500 returned about 10%

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Economists Stink

Dear Mr. Berko: Gerald Friedman is a distinguished economist who initially wanted to be a psychiatrist. He says that under Bernie Sanders’ platform, in five years, U.S. median income would

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9 Easy Ways to Lose Money in the Stock Market

Losing money is often easier than making it if you’re guilty of these investing faux pas. By: Sean Williams Time and again, the stock market has proved to be one

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The Rest of the Story

One of the dangers of having written thousands of stories is that it’s easy to forget about some of them – especially if they were 30 years ago. I habitually

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The Panama Papers

Why the U.S. could replace offshore hot spots By David Lyons Inside a Ritz-Carlton hotel ballroom, the setting of a recent wealth management conference sponsored by the Florida International Bankers

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Why More Workers Will Soon Be Entitled to Overtime

By Paul O. Lopez, Esq. For many years, the threshold for exempt employees who were not entitled to overtime compensation has been approximately $455 per week ($23,660 per year), so

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CMBS Financial Reckoning Hasn’t Ended

By Darcie Lunsford It has been nearly eight years since that fateful September day when Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy, becoming the proverbial straw that nearly broke the mighty U.S.

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Compensation Minefields

Even private companies are facing pressure on compensation issues By Kevin Gale Presidential candidates aren’t the only ones scrutinizing executive pay these days. Everyone from insurance companies to minority shareholders

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Five Questions to Identify Your Best Donor Prospects

By Gerry Czarnecki Most boards have a “give or get” goal for their members. Understanding and executing on the “give” part is pretty simple: Just write a check. Writing that

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Simple as Pi

Businesses adopt Citrix’s low cost desktop alternative By Chris Fleck Citrix’s HDX Ready Pi is about to disrupt the desktop PC industry as a low-cost, high-performance end-user computing device like

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