10 Seldom-Asked Questions to Answer Before You Buy a Franchise

On a Saturday afternoon in Pakistan, dozens of teenagers and young families stand in line at an upmarket Karachi mall, waiting to order burgers at the latest fast-food store in town.

From Colombia Reports comes a great article that, on its face, seems to be just a short piece about foreign investment, but actually provides several great lessons about the global economy: Colombia's largest cement company Argos has bought several cement plants in Alabama, Georgia and South Carolina for $760 million, reported local media Thursday.

Brian Polino submits:Brown-Forman Corporation (NYSE: BF.A, BF.B), the renowned maker of Jack Daniels and Southern Comfort, is a great company with a strong franchise adept with econo

While you can never predict with certainty exactly what questions you'll be asked in a job interview, some questions get asked so frequently that you'd be foolish not to prepare answers for them in advance. Here are five of the questions that you'll most likely be asked.

At a panel discussion at the Pew Charitable Trusts (captured for posterity by Planet Money), Alice Rivlin floated the idea of breaking up big banks. Luckily for us, Scott Talbott of the Financial Services Roundtable (a lobbying group for big banks) was there to slap that idea down. Talbott: “We need big companies, and they can be managed, and they are being managed …”

Offers starting from £6m to be considered for building that hosted bands in store and loved by music f