FERME DE CAMUS, France - This week the American dollar fell to a $1.54 against the euro, a record low. Unstable currency exchange is just one of the hurdles that business must leap in search of profits. For some wholesalers and manufacturers the tumbling dollar has created a windfall, others have found their profits gutted, and everyone has one eye … [continue]

At first he was no more than a plume of dust in the western sky. He could have been an excited mule dear or a stubborn Comanche, but something told me to keep watching the horizon. Out here you learn the virtue of patience the hard way. You wait for the mail wagon and the whisky peddler and then you … [continue]