You’re the Boss Blog: A Plan to Keep Growing in the New Year

Iraq is sharpening a push to sell its swelling crude output and sit at oil’s top table with Saudi Arabia, sweetening terms for contract buyers next year, its customers say. Iraqi Oil Minister Abdul-Kareem Luaibi held court to oil executives in Vienna’s Hotel Imperial last week on the sidelines of an OPEC meeting. Some buyers have said they were concerned by higher prices and variable quality.

Want to have more productive meetings? Sure you do. Ex-Microsoft Windows boss Steven Sinofsky just posted a long blog that tells you how.

It is hard to get definitive answers to important questions about lending, but the author - a new contributor to You're the Boss - hopes to help.

Workers pay 6.2 percent of their earnings into the Social Security system and employers pay a matching amount up to $113,700 in 2013. Workers who earn more than this taxable maximum in a single year stop paying into Social Security on their earnings and also stop accruing additional benefits for that year.

    Paul Krugman had another of his nasty moment on TV Sunday (ABC -Link) when he took on Senator Ron Johnson (R, WI). The topic was Social Security. I want to throw my two cents into this fray.   Senator Johnson made the comment:  

    Paul Krugman had another of his nasty moment on TV Sunday (ABC -Link) when he took on Senator Ron Johnson (R, WI). The topic was Social Security. I want to throw my two cents into this fray.   Senator Johnson made the comment:  

By Mitch Vine:If you’d like to invest in a group of fire and security companies, it is not easy to do. Most of the big and medium-sized players in security are conglomerates like Johnson Controls (JCI), Bosch Security, Sony (SNE) and Schneider Electric (SBGSF.PK).