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Lighting the path to Economic Recovery
A common refrain I hear often these days is that the media is to blame for the national economic...
Economist assesses presidential platforms
Small Business Times asked Sara Walker, senior vice president and portfolio management team leader with the Milwaukee office of...
Bottom up
This year, construction of new homes, home sales and listings of homes for sale are down in southeastern Wisconsin,...
Despite gas prices, region ramps up for more visitors
Milwaukee is getting a major new tourist attraction this weekend, the city's casino is phasing in a major expansion...
Bigger, but better?
As an increasing number of southeastern Wisconsin health care systems merge and acquire physicians' groups, some industry observers are...
Floods leave some business owners hung out to dry
After the June deluge that soaked Wisconsin, Mark Honadel, a state representative and the landlord of a 20,000-square-foot building...
Mergers & Acquisitions
Chicago investors acquire Midland Container Chicago-based Arbor Investments has completed its acquisition of Midland Container Corp. in Franksville, Wis....
MMAC Survey forecasts sluggish quarter
Local business expectations for the third quarter of 2008 are somewhat mixed, according to the latest quarterly business outlook...
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Economist: More pain ahead
Real gross domestic product (GDP) annualized growth for the first quarter was revised up from its advance estimate of...
Downturn takes toll on local stocks
What a difference a year makes. Last year at this time, the prices of 27 of the 35 stocks...
Banking industry is in distress
The slumping housing market, the subsequent credit crunch and repeated write-downs of underperforming assets have battered the share prices...
Pessimism grows among Wisconsin’s bankers
Commercial and residential loan demand in Wisconsin is flat and predicted to either stay that way or decline further...