Rent discounts, other favorable conditions in commercial real estate markets make it a good time for expansion moves by business, NAR report suggests.

A Western media company offers a product the Chinese can’t resist: education

ON A Tuesday at 6pm, children begin arriving at a bland commercial building just as the office workers are leaving. A small storefront leads to an English-language school run by Disney. It is not much of an entrance, squashed between a dusty drugstore and a fast-food joint. This being China, many passers-by assume it is a fake. But word is spreading through the pushy-parent network: this is the real...

RAND PAUL took to the pages of USA Today to inform us that he's no libertarian. Not that he sees anything wrong with libertarians or their ism, he is at pains to explain; he just wants readers to bear in mind that although he "share[s] many libertarian points of view...

Ratan Tata turned a family conglomerate into a tiger. He will be a hard act to follow

IF INDIA were a nation of gamblers, the betting on who will succeed Ratan Tata, chairman of the Tata group, would be furious. On August 4th Tata Sons, the holding company for one of India’s biggest conglomerates, announced that it was seeking Mr Tata’s replacement when he retires in 2012 at the age of 75. Since then speculation has been rife. Will the board pick a younger relative, as so...