What Is Business Ethics? Business ethics is the study of appropriate business policies and practices regarding potentially controversial subjects including corporate governance, insider trading, bribery, discrimination, corporate social responsibility, and fiduciary responsibilities. The law often guides business ethics, but at other times business ethics provide a basic guideline that businesses can […]

The Bell group, instead of being driven from the field, were at once lifted to a higher level in the business world. Most of them were well- known business men–the Bradleys, the Saltonstalls, Fay, Silsbee, and Carlton. There was a spirit of confidence and enterprise; and the next step, clearly, […]

What is Money Supply? The money supply is the entire stock of currency and other liquid instruments circulating in a country’s economy as of a particular time. The money supply can include cash, coins, and balances held in checking and savings accounts, and other near money substitutes. Economists analyze the […]

He seemed, indeed, singularly fond of his own company–or, as the PERSONNEL of the Advance expressed it, “grossly addicted to evil associations.” But then it should be said in justice to the stranger that the PERSONNEL was himself of a too convivial disposition fairly to judge one differently gifted, and […]

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Providence compelled all these men, striving to attain personal aims, to further the accomplishment of a stupendous result no one of them at all expected- neither Napoleon, nor Alexander, nor still less any of those who did the actual fighting. I am telling the history of very simple people, who […]

axle grease Australian slang for money, which greases the wheels of life, so to speak, helping things to run along more smoothly. chicken feed Small change; a paltry or inconsequential amount of money. This American slang expression, which dates from 1836, is an allusion to the scraps and seeds fed […]

What Is a Business? A business is defined as an organization or enterprising entity engaged in commercial, industrial, or professional activities. Businesses can be for-profit entities or non-profit organizations that operate to fulfill a charitable mission or further a social cause.  The term business also refers to the organized efforts […]