Smith Brain Trust

De Beers once swore it would never debase itself by selling stones that had been grown in a lab. Well, that was then.

There was a key development on Capitol Hill last week you might have missed. The decades-old Gephardt Rule, which seeks to avoid having the U.S. run afoul of the debt limit, was given new life.

Planning to look for a new job in 2019? When you get to the interview stage, avoid raising the five most common red flags, Maryland Smith’s Patricia Reich says.

There are five key stages to the typical job interview. Maryland Smith's Patricia Reich explains how to master each one.

“A New Year’s Resolution is a promise to yourself,” Maryland Smith’s Elinda F. Kiss says. Here's how to make a financial resolution and make it stick.

This is the state of money in 2019. Cash money is becoming increasingly less essential to our lives, replaced by a wider swath of other ways to pay. And it’s changing everything about what it means to be a consumer.

Does getting more sleep top your 2019 resolution list? If you aren’t already getting seven to eight hours a night, it should.

Like the big man in the North Pole, Maryland Smith’s David Kass spends the waning weeks of the year making a list and checking it twice.

Whether the office party is a cheerful event you look forward to all year or a cringe-inducing one that fills you with dread, chances are, it's probably already on your calendar. Here's how to survive it.

It was big news when Qatar announced it was quitting OPEC after nearly 60 years. But a development 6,000 miles away in Canada is likely to have a far more significant impact on oil prices, Maryland Smith's Charles E. Olson says.