American Greetings buys up UK's Clinton Cards

Former U.S. secretary of state Hillary Clinton officially came out Monday in support of gay marriage, her short video statement viewed by many as a strategic move ahead of the next presidential race in 2016. In the six-minute video, released by the Human Rights Campaign‘s arm in support of marriage equality, Ms. Clinton says that gays and lesbians are “full and equal citizens and deserve the rights of citizenship.”

Ganaxi Small Cap Movers submits:Chase Coleman has returned market-beating over 20% compounded returns since his fund inception in 2001. Its major new conviction buys and holds include online movie rental subscription service Netflix Inc.

By Ganaxi Small Cap Movers:We present here three noteworthy buys and four noteworthy sells from Tuesday's SEC Form 4 (insider trading) filings (ex- the healthcare and technology sectors that were covered separately in a prior article hyperlinked to above), as part of our daily

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Guest blog post by Matt Erskine, Acting Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Economic DevelopmentEconomic recovery in the wake of an economic disaster—such as the closing of a large employer—doesn’t happen overnight. It requires careful planning, the coordination of human and financial resources, and a willingness to consider alternative directions that will benefit the community in the long run.This is the story that the city of Moraine, Ohio, can tell. For nearly 90 years, Moraine—located in close proximity to Dayton, Ohio—was the location of a single, prominent manufacturing plant whose successive owners read like an honor roll of 20th century American business: Dayton-Wright Airplane (manufacturer of DeHavilland aircraft), Frigidaire (maker of an iconic line of refrigerators), and, since 1981, General Motors (GM).When GM announced plans in June 2008 to close this plant, the development came as a blow to the local economy. Just think about the impact to suppliers and the distributors that get their business from them.  According to a report published by the International Economic Development Council, the Moraine region, with more than 90 GM suppliers in 14 surrounding communities, lost more than 800 jobs at larger suppliers in addition to the 4,200 jobs that were lost when GM shut down.Within weeks of GM’s announcement, staff from the Chicago regional office of the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) began working with state and local officials in Ohio to develop a strategy to deal with the effects of the Moraine plant closure. As a first step, an EDA investment helped the city develop a bottom-up Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy (CEDS) to guide the region’s recovery efforts.

Yahoo has an interview with someone who writes greeting cards for a living.  The section on word choice is fascinating:

The West Midlands-based discount retailer Poundland is bought by an American private equity firm for an estimated £200m.

Guest blog post by Matt Erskine, Acting Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Economic DevelopmentBy helping regions plan for their economic future, and by giving businesses access to the advanced tools they need to compete in the 21st century, we can make sure that the U.S. economy grows and creates the well-paying jobs that are key to our long-term prosperity. I got a first-hand look at such efforts today in Columbus, Ohio, when I had the opportunity to participate in a roundtable with local economic development leaders and visit the facilities of the Ohio Supercomputer Center.One of the groups I met with was Columbus 2020, a regional public-private partnership that was created to leverage central Ohio’s research and academic institutions and its diverse industries, with the goal of better positioning the area to be the fastest growing economy in the country. It is doing that by working to retain and expand businesses already located in the region, attracting new businesses, leveraging the region’s research assets (such as its colleges and universities) to make it more attractive to entrepreneurs and startup businesses, and improving the region’s civic infrastructure.