Stocks Volatile on Fed Moves and Euro Debt
Wall Street started off June with weak jobs numbers, and the Commerce Department released a first quarter economic growth report that was...
Tales of a Serial Entrepreneur
Once you know Jim Corman’s story, it is easy imagine him as George Bailey, the character played by James Stewart in...
Spotlight on Covington, Butler & Crenshaw counties
Covington, Butler and Crenshaw counties, located in southeast Alabama, are former textile-producing areas that endured hard times when that industry...
Martin Marietta's Mad Men Blitz Kiboshed
In the spring of 2010, Vulcan Materials Inc. CEO Don James was seriously studying the next big deal—a merger by the Birmingham-based...
Top Dollar Jury Awards
1. Mannsfeld v. Ineos Americas LLC, et al Most people—on a good day—might be lucky to get a penny for their...
Roy Moore's Second Coming
A look back at the “Business & Politics” column in the July 2000 issue of Business Alabama is an exercise in eternal recurrence....
$2 Billion Chump Change
News in May that J.P. Morgan dropped more than $2 billion in a derivatives trade made headlines, stirred Congressional committee hearings—Harrumph! Harrumph!—and...
The Value of a Company Plane
On July 9, 2007 then-Sen. Barack Obama stepped off a Gulfstream jet onto the runway tarmac to kick off the Alabama portion...
Watching the Skies
His career-military father always hoped Bob Baron would become a doctor. But instead of attending medical school, Baron’s career journey led him...
Number Crunchers to the Rescue
Most every Alabama business has a relationship with an accounting firm — to balance the books, prepare taxes, draw up the...