By Jeff Jones, MBA, Ph.D Near the end of 2013, the Federal Reserve announced it would begin the process of winding down its highly controversial program known as "Quantitative Easing," or "QE" for short. The current version of QE is the third round of the program, and as such has been appropriately dubbed "QE3." Simply put, QE is a special form of monetary policy … [Read more...] about Bears Business Brief: Fed policy affects your portfolio
As many of you know, the go-to source for news and information in the Springfield community is the News-Leader. As a part of the community, we are very happy to be partnering with the News-Leader in a new endeavor. Last month, the College of Business started providing insight on business issues community members are most concerned about through a weekly column in the Sunday … [Read more...] about Bears Business Brief
By Kerri Tassin, J.D., CPA If you sense people are using home offices more now than in the past, a good reason may exist for this intuition. A February 2013 online article in Forbes estimated about 30 million Americans work from home, and the number of telecommuters — which includes both self-employed workers and employees working from home — continues to grow. Despite … [Read more...] about Bears Business Brief: Home office deduction simplified