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Daniel Gross is an American author, and writes for Slate's "Moneybox" column. He has written several books, including Forbes Greatest Business Stories of All Time, Bull Run: Wall Street, the Democrats, and the New Politics of Personal Finance, and Generations of Corning: 150 Years in the Life of a Global Corporation, 1851-2001. He attended Cornell University and studied American history at Harvard University. He just wrote a book recently, in 2007 called POP! It is about how business bubbles are great for the economy.

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Made in China—and sold there, too.

These are grim times for American executives. The public is angry, and consumers are holding on to every nickel. It's hard to escape the sense that the economic future may be less comfortable than the past. But not all American managers are gloomy. ...

From DANIEL GROSS, Slate,  21 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Mary Kay,  Barack Obama,  Stephen Green,  Starbucks Corp,  Standard Chartered Bank

What a meal of beef stomach and duck throats taught me about the new China.

"So what's that?" I asked, gesturing at a bowl of grayish fleshy ribbons with little spikes. It was one of the many tough-to-identify animal parts cramming the Lazy Susan. Zhang Haiqing, deputy director of the Foreign and Overseas Chinese Affairs ...

From DANIEL GROSS, Slate,  20 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Starbucks Corp,  U.S. Congress

Like New Yorkers, Chinese people just can't stop talking about real estate.

In Shanghai, which is China's New York, locals and expats are doing their best to foist American-style consumerism onto China's rising masses—with mixed results. Starbucks has opened several hundred stores, even though China has no coffee-drinking ...

From DANIEL GROSS, Slate,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Bank of Communications,  Starbucks Corp,  Ronald Reagan

Why the American brand Mary Kay is thriving in China.

Economists, politicians, and shoppers focus so much on the massive flood of Chinese imports that we end up paying too little attention to the products, services, and business concepts exported from the United States to China. The vast differential in ...

From DANIEL GROSS, Slate,  17 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Mary Kay Ash,  Fendi (designer),  Barack Obama,  Chevrolet,  Starbucks Corp

The job market will rebound a lot sooner than you expect.

Like some gothic serial novelist, the Bureau of Labor Statistics delivers another chapter of the same grim tale on the first Friday of every month. In October, the unemployment rate spiked to 10.2 percent, the highest since April 1983. Since December 20 ...

From DANIEL GROSS, Slate,  14 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Bureau of Labor Statistics,  John Deere,  Time Warner Inc.,  Johnson & Johnson,  Microsoft Corporation

Arby's slipping down the food chain

Daniel Gross, Slate.com Arby's was started in Ohio in the 1960s. The name is, of course, a play on roast beef, and on the names of the founding Raffel brothers. (The conceit of this ad in the early 1980s -- that Arby's stands for "America's roast beef, ...

From DANIEL GROSS, SLATE.COM, MSN Money,  11 Nov 2009

Related Topics: McDonald's,  Nelson Peltz,  Burger King

Why the last decade has been an economic disappointment for most Americans.

As we dig out from the rubble of the financial sector's collapse, it's common to hear analysts fret that the United States may now be facing a Japan-style "lost decade." Throughout the 1990s, after its real estate and stock bubble burst, Japan ...

From DANIEL GROSS, Slate,  11 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Census Bureau

How nagging text messages can make you healthier and richer.

The ability to blast messages to large numbers of people at very little cost has been a boon to marketers, although it is frequently inefficient and always annoying. The overwhelming majority of customers brush off the pitches, reminders, come-ons, ...

From DANIEL GROSS, Slate,  10 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Nancy Pelosi,  Ivy League,  Harvard University,  Novartis

Why Arby's is so low on the restaurant food chain.

Some companies came through the recently ended recession with flying colors. In the fast-food realm, we've argued, McDonald's was a victor. But in a time of pinched consumer spending, business has frequently been a zero-sum game. In every sector, it ...

From DANIEL GROSS, Slate,  7 Nov 2009

Related Topics: McDonald's,  Nelson Peltz,  Burger King,  Taco Bell

Much of the current deficit debate is for the birds.

A once-endangered species is staging a robust comeback: the deficit hawk. Hunted nearly to death during the Bush years, many varieties not seen in Washington in a decade are now perching on branches and dropping their wisdom. Look, there's the ...

From DANIEL GROSS, Slate,  5 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  George W. Bush,  United States Department of the Treasury,  Goldman Sachs

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