Today, as another record jobless report is expected, I am looking at pretty good news.

At its Omaha office, NBDC has packaged 14 loans for $4,670,000 since the first of the year. Of these, eight

"He's a brilliant professor." "She's a brilliant violinist." "He's a brilliant running back." These days, we use the term brilliant in more ways than we used to. It used to be that brilliant was in

The one thing that is clear in the current economic environment is that recruiting businesses is not an attractive strategy for economic development. The crash is extending beyond the closing of manu

The current debate about Nebraska roads is somewhat bizarre if I understand it correctly. The recent increase in the price of gasoline has caused, we are told, a decrease in driving. This resulting

Bob Sliskovic has lost his job at Pfizer, the big pharmaceutical company, we learned this month in The Wall Street Journal (Dec. 11, page one). You probably have never heard of Robert Sliskovic, I

In the middle of the Regan Administration American business leaders were introduced (mostly through the pages of Forbes magazine) to a forgotten economist. Joseph A. Schumpeter had once been seen on

The front page feature story of the February 9, 2007 edition of The Wall Street Journal was about the efforts of the chairman of the nations largest network of automobile dealers to change the pract

In the late 1960s IBM introduced the Selectric typewriter. Instead of setting the letters on bars that angled from a semi-circle base and struck the paper, IBM put the letters on the surface of a hol

Every year since 1998 Beloit College has issued its "Mind-Set List." It is a useful reminder to college professors of the experiences freshmen collegians bring to their classrooms. It can also be a

Ken Wortman was buried today in Aurora, Nebraska, the town he did so much to keep vibrant. Wortman is a recipient of the NBDC Champion of Small Business Award. He was a champion in every sense of th