Protect your business. Take advantage of your good fortune now to prepare for lean times using these six strategies.    Your business is strong and you’re likely in a great financial position. However, prosperous times can’t last forever. Every business owner will experience slow periods and downturns. It’s just the nature of business and our economy…. Read More

For Europeans in the 1500s the spice trade routes were fantastically profitable, but also hazardous in the extreme, and not just from the arduous journey in wooden ships on storm thrashed seas. With armed merchant ships from the Netherlands, England, Spain and Portugal traveling to Asia, they literally battled with each other to steal cargo,… Read More