Since entering the finance sector more than three decades ago, Spokane-based financial adviser Donald Morgan says he's seen a lot of change in the area of wealth management. That change, he says, has been influenced by factors that include and a

According to the latest economic census, there are almost 9,000 companies in Spokane County with combined total revenues of nearly $18 billion. In the manufacturing sector alone, there are more than 500 companies with average annual revenues that 8

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. says it has sold a 25 percent initial equity stake in a limited liability company it formed in its receivership capacity to hold certain loans of the failed Bank of Whitman, in Colfax, Wash.The 62 loans the to

Sir Winston Churchill remarked that one should "avoid prophesying beforehand because it is much better to prophesy after the event has already taken place." Nonetheless, I am moved to disregard his advice in this particular instance.Before I I

New loan incentives available through the U.S. Small Business Administration are keeping the total SBA loan volume here above pre-recession levels, despite the depletion of stimulus measures that spurred lending in 2010, some lenders here without a

Investing in education has a little different meaning for a class of nine seniors in Gonzaga University's School of Business Administration.Class members have their hands on real money—typically $100,000 split between two teams—to in &