Curtis Carter recently came to China to give a series of talks, culminating in an address on Chinese contemporary art to the International Aesthetics Association Congress in Beijing. Curtis is the incoming president of the association and an internationally respected Chinese contemporary art critic.

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The Tannery, an office complex development in a former Pfister & Vogel tannery complex on West Virginia Street in Milwaukee's Walker's Point neighborhood, has struggled with rising vacancies in recent years

Commercial and industrial lending in the United States fell from $1.45 trillion in July of 2009 to $1.23 trillion in July 2010. In that same time frame, commercial real estate lending fell from $1.69 trillion to almost $1.56 trillion.

One of the fallouts of the Great Recession was that the demand for – and the availability of – commercial lending drastically and quickly diminished.

As this chart indicates, most banks in southeastern Wisconsin have cut back on their loans for commercial and industrial...

Unless Congress and President Barack Obama act, the tax cuts passed in 2001 and 2003, known as the Bush tax cuts, will expire when the calendar turns to 2011.

The Dodd-Frank Act, which President Barack Obama signed on July 21, doesn't just change the rules of the road for banks and Wall Street powerhouses. It also continues and accelerates the trend toward providing more information, and ultimately more power through enhanced voting opportunities, to the shareholders of all public companies in the United States.

I had the privilege of being one of several business associates asked to deliver a memorial eulogy recently for a prominent 35-year TEC member.

One sure way to get a unanimous non-show of hands from a group of salespeople is to ask this question: "Let's see a show of hands. How many of you, when you set your objectives for a customer meeting, have at the top of the list: 'I want to come across to the customer like every other salesperson that customer met with in the last week?'

While I was dining with several girlfriends, one of them asked, "Hey, do you ever wonder where your brain goes when you hit middle age?"

The loss of trust leaves us with a feeling of emptiness at best, and with deep grief in some cases. You don't have to look far to find people and things we've lost trust in lately – superheroes, huge corporations, political parties, on and on.