How Intuit Uses Big Data For The Little Guy

Intuit, the makers of TurboTax, has spent tons of money and time lobbying against a simplified tax system known as "return-free filing," 

China is planning an overhaul of its bond market, according to an exclusive report by Reuters' Nick Edwards and Benjamin Kang Lam.

The term “big data” is all the rage these days, but what does it mean for small businesses? First of all, let’s simplify the term: It simply means all the data in your organization, whether it be located inside a database or sitting on a laptop or email server.

The chart above shows the significant reduction in coal's share of total U.S.

If NBA teams are really in such bad economic shape then how come we’re not seeing more teams change hands? In other words, if “[a]bout half of the league’s 30 franchises are losing money” then how come that isn’t leading owners to sell their teams? Someone genuinely losing money on his NBA team ought to be willing to sell it at a cheap price to a rich guy hoops fan who doesn’t mind losing money, or just to a businessman who overestimates his basketball-management prowess.

Here's a seemingly simple question for you: "Is the Fed Printing Money?" I suspect most of you will reply an emphatic yes, but some of you will say no. Before I give you my take, please ponder a similar question: "Is inflation or deflation coming?" I posed the inflation question to the audience in my presentation at the Wine Country Conference. My answer was "It depends".