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Know a good bronze sculptor? How ‘bout a skilled glassblower? There’s a reason you probably don’t – but one website is trying to change that. The site is called CustomMade.com and its goal is to make it easier for people to commission customized big-ticket items such as dining room tables, china cabinets and engagement rings. College friends Michael Salguero and Seth Rosen started the company in 2009, leaving their jobs in real estate to pursue their vision of a marketplace where consumers and artisans of all kinds could easily connect. Call it an Etsy-meets-eBay, of sorts. They launched the site [...]

Nomura: Near-term relief from Greek vote G-20 to focus on Eurozone, Russia, Syria Pro-Euro Greek right tries, again, to form governmentIf you doubt that European problems could affect U.S. shores, take a quick glance at history for a chilling lesson.Prominent economists have drawn an eerie parallel between today’s events and those of the early 1930s when, as the world limped in the aftermath of the 1929 Wall Street crash, a banking crisis in Europe took the world economy into another downward spiral and led to an explosion of extremist politics that, ultimately, set the pathway to World War II.If you [...]

Oh, the poignancy and patriotism of it all. For weeks we as a country have been caught up in the 2012 Olympic Games in London – the pageantry, the competition, the stories, the stories, the stories. As well we should be on many levels. How great is it to stand in front of your couch while your national anthem is playing? Stirring. Or while some hard-working soul has a medal put around his neck? Wonderful. But here’s the thing about the stories. The ones that are told and re-told year after year after year, country after country, sport after sport, [...]