10 Ways to Slash Your Business's Gas Costs

If you thought you were having a nightmare the last time you drove past a gas station, sorry -- those prices are real. And they're not going away.
This year is forecast to see the highest U.S. gas prices ever. After hitting $4-a-gallon highs in 2008, gas prices declined, but now they're back in the $4 neighborhood and predicted to stay there. Expect prices to peak in the summer, when vacationing families drive up demand.
For many small businesses, high gas prices eat away at

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Let’s Get a Couple Things Straight…

There’s a new story in Bloomberg BusinessWeek by David Lynch called “It’s a Man vs. Machine Recovery.” It’s about technology’s recent impact on wages and employment, and includes quotes from Race Against the Machine, the ebook Erik Brynjolfsson and I published recently.
I like the piece overall, but want to correct an impression or two that it leaves. Lynch writes:

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