Mark Kissel, executive vice-president of Newport Beach-based Pacific Investment Company (PIMCO) sums up the current economic climate as a blood bath and says to look for a two to three year downturn.

PIMCO, the world’s largest manager of bonds, ($668 billion in bond funds) continually monitors the economic environment. Kissel sees (more…)

Bentley Commerce Corporation (PINKSHEETS: BLYO), announced that the reverse stock split of the Company’s outstanding common stock, at a ratio of 1-for-500 shares, is effective June 26, 2007. In addition, the company’s stock symbol has changed from BLYC to (more…)

Whatever Happened to Little League Baseball in the Inner City? examines the times in which we live and eras gone by, when Inner City parks in Chicago were filled with kids who were devoted to America’s favorite pastime, baseball. In his impassioned book, author Mark O’Neal looks at the various social, cultural, racial, and economic factors that have caused baseball to (more…)

He owns 68% of his privately-held company, Bloomberg News, which is worth an estimated $37 billion. Now serving as the major of New York City, Mayor Michael Bloomberg yesterday gave the commencement speech at City University of New York’s College of Staten Island.

His advice to get ahead in (more…)

Contents in the June 26, 2007, Tuesday Report, published by BarterNews (more…)

With BoomTime Instant Gift Certificates, small businesses can dramatically increase their online sales, competing with the big national retailers. Last-minute and out-of-state gift givers can instantly purchase and then email or print a gift certificate directly from a business’ website. Instant Gift Certificates (more…)

With the recent announcement of this fall’s International Reciprocal Trade Association’s 27th Annual Convention, it brought to mind where the industry was a decade ago. In issue #39 of BarterNews we reported on the 17th annual convention.

Some 165 attendees traveled to (more…)

By Jeremy Faludi

In an earlier post we reported on Thomas Greco’s attending th BALLE Conference. In an effort to provide our readership (you) with more information on this unique organization we are providing this (more…)

Debra Murray, president and managing member of Blue Spring International, recently returned from Jeddah, Saudi Arabia after teaching in the Women’s Entrepreneurship Training Workshop sponsored by Dar Al-Hekma College,

The State Department, and the Women President’ Organization (WPO) participated in the effort. Murray attended as a member of WPO along (more…)

One of America’s longest established trade exchanges is found in the Detroit market. Michael Mercier and his wife Lois have been serving their community for three decades. And Mercier has tirelessly supported the commercial barter industry, serving on (more…)