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Americans have a long tradition of packing up and moving to find better opportunities. Covered wagons streamed west in the early 1800s, packed with people willing to brave the hazards …

“Xia” is a 38-year-old food cart vendor, who works the streets of the northeastern Chinese city of Shenyang, near the North Korean border. There’s nothing about the man that might catch …

The Internet is a great communications tool. But like a hammer, it can be used to build a house, or it can break a window. The intent of the person …

“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” — Anne Frank If the first thing that enters your mind when you hear …

“If we could talk to the animals, learn their languages, maybe take an animal degree…” — Lyric from a popular song by Leslie Bricusse Isn’t it odd how we claim to …

A report by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York shows Americans are taking on debt at scary new levels. Consumers were in the hole to the tune of $11.52 …

Since the advent of cell phones and the mobile Internet, workers have been freed from the confines of an office — and work in coffee shops, hotel business centers, airport …

At his press conference today, Derek Jeter said his 19-season career with the New York Yankees went by “in a blink.” It did for the rest of us too.  The …

In Venezuela, government forces resorted to deadly violence to put down anti-government protests on Thursday, “a spasm of violence that’s unlike anything the country has experienced since 1989,” according to an …

Most people are aware that the Great Recession of 2008 was triggered by sub-prime lending, what those of us in the real estate industry called a “no-doc” loan, also called …