Are You Prepared If You Lose Your Job? Not to spoil your day, but how prepared are you to lose your job? There's little excuse these days for not being ready to kick a job search into high gear at a moment's notice. Here are some suggestions on how to do so from experts.

Business Blunders of the Bathrobe Brigade (or 'Working at Home May Not Live Up to the Hype')

Wouldn't it be great to work from home? You could come and go as you pleased; you'd always be available for your family; you could work in your bathrobe. No boss to yank your chain, no office politics, nobody stealing your Diet Coke from the company fridge. Just you, merrily toiling away in your bunny slippers, totally in control of your time and your life. Yeah . . . right.

Stimulus Checks Stimulate . . . Scammers

Anticipation about the incoming economic stimulus checks is spurring a number of e-mail and telephone scams by scammers pretending to be from the IRS -- so citizens should beware.

International Representatives Discuss High-Growth Business at Kauffman Foundation

Twenty experts from around the world gathered at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation Thursday to discuss the global impact of high-growth small- and medium-sized enterprises, or SMEs. The all-day workshop, sponsored by the foundation and the U.S. Department of Commerce, brought together members of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, an international organization of 30 countries committed to representative democracy and free markets.