New Hampshire Business Review - December 7 2007

N.H. goes against export growth trend

For companies that do business globally, gains in productivity increase sales both abroad and at home as lower prices improve domestic sales in relation to competing imports. As a result, a more competitive company, industry or region is likely to…

How to decode a wine list

You’re at an elegant restaurant. Wanting to make a good impression for your dining companions, you volunteer to order a bottle of wine for the table. The waiter offers you a wine list roughly the size of a dictionary. Don’t…

Sustainable energy comes to the home

Forget about a hybrid in every garage. How about: •A windmill in every backyard •A solar space heater in every family room •A geothermal or wood-pellet furnace in every basement •High-tech compressive energy audits for every house, with interiors coated…

Let them try Medicaid

One of the most sorry ongoing episodes in the extremely disappointing history of the U.S. Congress over the last few decades has been its inability to do much, if anything, constructive about the nation’s health-care quagmire. Whatever the solution -…