Department Archive: Finance
05/14/12
Last November, Seattle Business featured a cover story about the surge in capital going to equity firms in search of higher returns. We predicted at...
03/16/12
For years, a prime criticism about American banks was that there were too many of them. Even in the era of interstate banking and megamergers, new...
02/21/12
They say getting the business community together on anything is a bit like herding cats, but what you see in Olympia these days is a regular feline...
01/09/12
Nobody likes taxes, but people really, really hate the levy Washington imposes on businesses.
Called the Business & Occupation Tax, the “B&O...
01/09/12
Tomato Battle does not fit the traditional financial model of a startup. The Seattle company, which produces daylong events in cities across the...
12/23/11
After harsh treatment by the Great Recession, the Puget Sound economy is back in its customary position, growing faster than the rest of the nation....
12/01/11
The nation’s deteriorating surface transportation infrastructure cost American households and businesses $130 billion in 2010, according to the...
10/07/11
You’d expect to see a lot of deals in two of the Puget Sound region’s most iconic industries—aerospace and technology—because there are so many...
Department Archive: FinanceWorkplace
12/23/11
Nix the minimum-wage hike
Joseph Phillips, Dean, Albers School of Business and Economics, Seattle University
I am skeptical that state...
