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Americans are currently saving roughly $250 million per day on gasoline compared to a year ago, according to GasBuddy. Based on a recent GasBuddy survey, those saving have made a difference in travel plans for about 25 percent of respondents. Patrick DeHaan, senior petroleum analyst with...

Absolutely. Well, yes and no. The proposed project slated for the Denny Triangle area of downtown Seattle is not a pipe dream by any stretch of the imagination. According to a recent Data Center Knowledge article, if approved, the project could be ready for data center tenants by 2017....

The New York Times Calls for Marijuana Reform Starting last week, The New York Times released a series of articles calling for marijuana policy reform, making it the first major media outlet to outspokenly promote legalization. The six-part series highlights the paper’s position on the...

The state that voted the biggest action movie star ever its governor and whose capital city's mayor-ship is in the hands of a former NBA all-star may have its once sad-sack franchise open for bidding. The fun is just beginning. Donald Sterling will soon be out. That's the plan NBA...

Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN)’s long rumored 3D Smartphone was almost ready to go, according to sources who spoke to the Wall Street Journal. The device could be officially announced as early as June and begin shipping by the end of September. According to sources, the company demonstrated different...

Few were expecting Green Mountain Coffee Roasters (NASDAQ: GMCR) to come back against Starbucks (NASDAQ: SBUX). That is why the stock is up more than 80 percent for the last quarter, with almost half of that coming in the last week of market action. News of its recent deal with Coca-Cola (NYSE...

As with any controversial topic, the question of corporate incomes taxes – whether to impose them or not - has two sides. In a January 5 OpEd in The New York Times, Boston University economics professor, Laurence Kotlikoff took the “dump them” side. According to Kotlikoff, eliminating or...

McDonald’s (NYSE: MCD) CEO Don Thompson wouldn’t name the Seattle-based chain as a competitor when he said Thursday that his company has less than its “fair share” of the coffee market. To date, McDonald’s “share” of restaurant coffee servings in the U.S. is less than 13 percent, according to...

The last several years have seen the beginning of an exponential shift in the economic prowess of U.S. cities. If you were to ask the average layperson which cities he or she believes are on the rise in terms of not only financial growth, but also sustainability, you might get the standard...