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Is Fast Food Slowing Down? Five Growing Trends in Restaurants Today

Americans’ taste preferences over the past few years have shifted away from fast food and towards healthier, but still casual, alternatives. Although McDonald’s, Burger King, and their ilk have seen a dramatic slowing in their sales, competitors like Panera Bread, Chipotle and in the west, Cafe Zupas have stolen market share by offering options with more natural ingredients and more vegetables.

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Online Banking

Will Online Banking Render Tellers Obsolete?

Throughout the history of banks, tellers represented the connection between individuals and their money in a financial institution. They handled deposits, transfers, withdrawals, loans, credit increases and account openings and closures. The Internet, however, has started to change all of that. More than ever before bank customers are choosing to process their transactions online or

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Spotting New Trends: Knowing When to Go Against the Grain

Spotting New Trends- It is said that hindsight is 20/20. It’s easy to think, “If I had just bought apartments in Paris in the 80s, or tech stocks before the bubble, or gold in 2000 or 2001, I’d be sitting on a fortune right now.” The thing is, kicking yourself for lost opportunities doesn’t do

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Economy Trends Toward Greater Depression

It’s important to continue to check our economic compass and keep a constant eye on the direction our economy and the world in general are headed. This will help to determine any adjustments necessary in our portfolios and/or our entire financial outlook. In today’s article David Galland looks at the direction of the economy and whether anything

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