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Issue of the week: Who should head the Fed?
feature Larry Summers is pitted against Janet Yellen as the White House’s top picks to replace Ben Bernanke.
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Issue of the week: Steve Ballmer’s Microsoft legacy
feature When the CEO of Microsoft announced that he would retire within the year, “the company’s stock surged.”
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Issue of the week: Blocking a major airline merger
feature The Justice Department and six states filed suit to block the proposed merger between American Airlines and US Airways.
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Issue of the week: The state of American labor
feature In today’s economy, the employer has the upper hand.
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Issue of the week: Why Summers bowed out
feature Has choosing the Fed chairman become too overtly political?
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Issue of the week: The ‘real’ unemployment rate
feature The Labor Department’s latest jobs data look deceivingly positive.
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Issue of the week: BlackBerry’s chances for survival
feature Is BlackBerry finally dead?
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A retail bully gets its comeuppance
feature Abercrombie & Fitch is “a schoolyard bully”
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Issue of the week: The corporate costs of surveillance
feature When your firm hosts personal data for millions of people, “privacy is a big selling point.”
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Issue of the week: China’s big oil buy
feature Iraq has become one of the world’s top oil producers, with half of its oil-field production shipped to China daily.
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Issue of the week: How Twitter fueled a market swoon
feature A fake report posted by hackers on the Associated Press Twitter feed caused the S&P 500 to drop 0.9 percent.
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Issue of the week: The rise of a part-time economy
feature The economy has created new jobs for the 34th month in a row, but most of them are low-paid and part-time.
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Issue of the week: A spreadsheet error’s aftermath
feature In 2010, two Harvard economists made what many thought was an airtight case for government austerity.
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Issue of the week: Phasing out quantitative easing
feature U.S. markets sank, after Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke hinted that the Fed might end its bond-buying program.
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