Stimulate, not suffocate, Great Indoors
If you've paid any attention to the retail game lately, the following scenario will sound familiar. In fact, let's play a little guessing game. Which fancy-schmancy new retail concept am...
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Darkness may bring power plays to light
The big blackout of 2003 didn't just put a big splotch of the Northeast in the dark. It laid down a big national Rorschach test on the question of energy...
Daley gets F on civic leaders’ school test
When the Civic Committee floated the idea of 100 new charter schools in Chicago, they hoped against hope that Mayor Daley might embrace the plan. After all, the Civic Committee...
Recording industry’s pursuit is off-key
Many people go through a stage where they think shoplifting is cool. They thrill at the danger of it. They like getting free stuff. They're amazed when they don't get...
Loss of Poindexter a win for all of us
At least one good thing came from the zany idea for a "terrorism futures" market that was launched from an off-kilter corridor of the Pentagon. John Poindexter got booted out...
No guarantee of the good life for jubilant Lacy
Alan Lacy says he is getting $6 billion by selling Sears, Roebuck and Co.'s credit card business to Citigroup. Now he's got to prove that his plan for rebuilding Sears'...
Bush takes on wrong issue at wrong time
President Bush is a free trader through and through. Or at least until he gets to the steel states, anyway. At that point, President Bush becomes a cold-rolled protectionist. Such...
3-year plan may fuel slow burn against Big Food
Big Food is not in as much trouble as Big Tobacco was. But if it continues underestimating its troubles, it could wind up that way. The tobacco industry bought itself...
Roadblocks are real in world that’s unhinged
Bassim Khoury keeps a remembrance in the parking lot of PharmaCare PLC that symbolizes what doing business is like here. The terrible trophy rests on four blue steel drums: a...
Talk is cheap, says wealthy Saudi prince
The prince ticks off his major investments like a young boy proudly shuffling through his trading cards. Citigroup? Have it. The Four Seasons hotel chain? Got it. Motorola? Yes. Apple...