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After roughly a year into President Trump’s term in office, several key factors in the U.S. economy are pointing to a strong showing, while consumer and business confidence is high. Equities have been on a tear, corporate profits continue to ...

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Maryland’s banking industry continues to seek reforms to the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act put in place after the Great Recession to right a troubled financial sector. Smaller, regional banks have been adversely affected by the regulations, ...

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  The opioid epidemic raging across the country recognizes few boundaries. Its victims are young and old, the highly educated and high school dropouts, rich and poor, women and men. There were more deaths from heroin overdoses in 2014 than ...

The most likely cyber threat to your home? Probably the innocuous appliance or household device that you see as a modern convenience and not as a portal for hackers to penetrate your digital world. That’s the conclusion of the people ...

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When it comes to small businesses created in Maryland, the federal government is still the leading economic engine. The health care and professional, scientific and technical services sectors, all of which can serve the federal government directly or indirectly, employ ...

In the 1970s, a group of enterprising physicians began opening up their practices after-hours to visits from patients with minor ailments, without an appointment. Patients didn’t want to go the emergency room, and they couldn’t wait a couple weeks to ...

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Thanks to the 21st Century Cures Act, small employers can carry on offering health reimbursement arrangements (HRAs). What does that mean? Employers can compensate workers for coverage they pay on their own individual policies without facing steep fines the IRS ...

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Membership and assets at local credit unions across the country have steadily risen in recent years. For CEOs like Bernie McLaughlin at Point Breeze Credit Union in the Baltimore area, the reasons for success aren’t entirely clear. But he’s not ...

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Any town or community that’s not busy figuring out how to attract and keep millennial entrepreneurs might want to start soon, according to Jacob Day, Salisbury’s 34-year-old mayor. Consider that millennials make up the largest living generation in America, plus ...

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Cybersecurity bachelor’s and master’s programs in Maryland are enrolling a growing number of students seeking to obtain credential on the way to a new job or advance their current careers in the field. Dr. Richard Forno, director of the University ...