WALL, N.J. /eNewsChannels/ -- Market and economic commentator Peter Grandich has long stated that one of the biggest maladies with the American economy is our obsession with 'stuff.' The boom in the self-storage industry, he says, is symbolic of our addiction to excess.

KIRKLAND, Wash. /eNewsChannels/ -- Reports of the death of long-term care insurance are highly exaggerated, according to LTC Financial Partners LLC (LTCFP), one of the nation's largest and most experienced LTCI agencies. Last Thursday, when MetLife announced it would stop selling new LTCI coverage, 'It wasn't the end of the world,' says Cameron Truesdell, LTCFP's CEO.

SAN DIEGO, Calif. /eNewsChannels/ -- Rob Katz, president of Del Mar DataTrac, Inc., an industry pioneer in business intelligence, paperless lending, and loan process workflow tools, says that the most important lesson learned by mortgage lenders in 2010 is that loan origination has become the focal point for quality control.

NEW YORK, N.Y. /eNewsChannels/ -- Most job seekers take far too narrow a view of themselves and fail to do simple things that would broaden their appeal, said Robert J. Gerberg, Chairman of SET, a personal marketing firm working with professionals and executives seeking $100,000 or more. 'People could increase their opportunities significantly if they would take a few simple steps,' he added.

GENEVA, Switzerland /eNewsChannels/ -- The Future Research Group of the World Mind Network, a think tank composed of scholars from the Silicon Valley, Oxford, Harvard, Rutgers, the Universities of Tokyo and Lausanne, and Kansas State University, says that popular Internet and Smart Phone phenomena which have emerged in the last five years represent a quantum leap in the evolution of Homo Sapiens.

ATLANTA, Ga. /eNewsChannels/ -- The economy may be in the doghouse, but Georgia businesses that pamper pooches and caress kittens are doing well. Last year, top Georgia business broker Loren Marc Schmerler, of Bottom Line Management, Inc., helped owners sell two pet-centered businesses, and says such businesses are bucking the economic trend.

LAS VEGAS, Nev. /eNewsChannels/ -- Dr. Geoffrey Sher of the Sher Institute for Reproductive Medicine (SIRM) applauded the selection of Britain's Robert Edwards, recipient of this year's Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine. Edwards' work led to the first 'test-tube' baby, Louise Brown, born in July 1978 in Britain. Since her birth, more than 3 million children have been conceived worldwide with the aid of in vitro fertilization.

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. -- Mr. Henry Oliver Ford is a man that most people have never heard of before. Mr. Ford spends every moment of the day working to create a better world. Henry works to provide food to West Africa. Ford helps to run World Food Association. Mr. Ford founded this company with one vision in mind.

MIAMI, Fla. -- Mr. Henry Oliver Ford of WFAO announces a new finance structure for West Africa. This new plan for structured finance is to help the socio-economic infrastructure. The plan that Mr. Ford has developed encompasses agriculture development, employee wage generation, Government tax base creation and the use of in-ground assets as a hedge to collateralize development. Henry Oliver is a well organized person that has practiced investment banking for years.

NORWALK, Conn. -- Things did not go as planned when Joe Presto of the Norwalk-based IT consulting firm Desktop Guerrillas tried to send out his monthly invoices last Tuesday night. After error messages kept popping up, Presto did a Google search and quickly determined that the issue was with Intuit's system, not his own. The next morning he learned the full scope of the outage: 300,000 of Intuit's clients had been affected.