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We all know the story of Christopher Columbus’s journey to the New World. Where we once celebrated his landing on October 12 as a national holiday, in recent years the focus has been more on the negative side of Columbus’s legacy.

While discussion of those aspects have their place, I think it is time for us to focus on what Columbus Day should be – a celebration of the entrepreneurial spirit and the spirit of adventure that would make America the greatest economic power the world...

For 6 months I fought the urge to get out of the stock market. My retirement savings were invested in good, balanced stock mutual funds, but I watched the value of them drop 40%.

I know the pundits all say now is the time to be in the market, that you should always buy something when it's on sale. In a normal world this would be true. But all the fund managers are 24 year old whiz kids who have never seen a downturn in the stock market, let alone a full blown recession, so they...

In 1945, when IBM was a company that made typewriters and adding machines, Thomas Watson, the CEO, asked his research department to estimate the demand for a new device called the "computer." After some time, he was told that, to the best of their knowledge, the world demand for computers was probably five machines. Undaunted, he pressed forward, and the rest is history.

I figure one day we will all have blogs. My daughter updates her Facebook from her cell phone, so...