Idaho Business Review IBR

Unemployment numbers are showing positive recovery signs across the country – considerably better in this first quarter of 2011 than was expected last fall. Some economists predicted unemployment could jump to 10.1 percent. Instead, it registered at 8.9 percent in ...

Why do tech stocks build us up just to let us down? Technology’s track record is one of dramatic peaks and valleys for its investors. However, its most recent run-up seems to have more fundamentals behind it than many of ...

With spring break just around the corner and troubles continuing to stir in the Middle East, consumers are holding their breath to see if gas prices continue to climb. This first week of March in Idaho, the average price of ...

I let someone with experience and a track record manage my mutual fund. When I buy individual stocks (not often), I think of it more as the afternoon’s Daily Double than an investment. And I play accordingly, with just the ...

No doubt you’ve seen anger-based emotional outbursts. Sometimes the outbursts are just that – outbursts. A quick release of emotion combined with a loud voice and/or the slamming of a door. But sometimes anger is a prolonged hostility, full of ...

Two big commercial real estate deals that were announced Feb. 28 have the national industry abuzz with heightened confidence in the industry’s ongoing recovery. Blackstone Group LP announced its plans to acquire $9.4 billion of shopping centers located in the ...

If you haven’t already, it’s well past time to wake up to the reality that “this isn’t your father’s marketplace anymore.” Consumers are in control and you’re not. They consume your advertising messages when, where and how they want to. ...

The United States has frozen $30 billion of the assets of Libyan strongman Muammar Gaddafi, hoping tighter credit will shut him down like an under-reserved community bank. Our friends around the world have done the same. Even the Swiss have ...

I’m visiting Boise. That means I get to engage in a favorite pastime, the unnamed hobby that has something to do with collecting people. Not in a Jeffrey Dahmer kind of way, you understand; more a Dorothy Parker kind of ...

ROCHESTER, NY — Down payment or equity is a term that has been thrown around a lot in the banking industry over the past couple of years. As the credit markets have changed over the past three years, have banks ...