WisBusiness: Entrepreneurship the focus of Milwaukee meeting today
By Amanda Ciesielczyk
For WisBusiness.com
Entrepreneurial leaders are due to discuss stimulating Wisconsin's economic growth at today's meeting of the Wisconsin Innovation Network’s Milwaukee chapter.
Dan Steininger, president of Steininger and Associates, will present an overview of both Successful Entrepreneurs Investors (SEI) and the newly launched BizStarts Milwaukee.
Wisconsin ranks 48th in the nation in the number of start-up companies and 43rd among...
UW-Madison: Courses help growing railroad industry stay on track
CONTACT: C. Allen Wortley, (608) 262-0577, wortley@engr.wisc.edu
MADISON - With merely one gallon of fuel, a train can move one ton of freight 400 miles.
Despite such astonishing fuel efficiency, the railroad industry shrank dramatically in the 1970s when highways became the preferred form of transportation. Today as fuel prices soar, trains again are becoming an attractive method for...
Stark: Madison real estate market sluggish, but not in crisis
A top Madison real estate executive says the $700 billion effort to salvage toxic mortgage-based securities, which he termed “taking the stinky meat out of the refrigerator,” could help “get the fear out of the” U.S. housing market.
But Dave Stark of 100-year-old Stark Co. Realtors added the national housing market isn't out of the woods yet and may not...
(WisBusiness) THURS News Summary — 9 Oct. 2008
From WisBusiness.com ...
-- The latest report from the Wisconsin Taxpayers Alliance (WISTAX), drawing both on state forecasts and federal figures, finds that Wisconsin’s economy has been lagging the nation for some time.
In 2006, total state income rose 5.4% to $191.7 billion, while national growth was 7.1%. Reflecting the economic slowdown, 2008 personal income is estimated to...
