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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 was hiring so slow in December?
feature A very disappointing jobs report for December douses a budding era of good feeling with “a great deal of uncertainty.”
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Issue of the week: Facebook’s $19B WhatsApp deal
feature Facebook agreed to pay $19 billion for WhatsApp, a 5-year-old business with 50 employees and revenues of $20 million.
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Issue of the week: Car dealers’ showdown with Tesla
feature Tesla's direct-sale business model is coming under fire in New Jersey and many other states.
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The IRS is killing Bitcoin
feature The government has just made it much harder for Bitcoin to go mainstream.
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Issue of the week: Are tech IPOs riding a bubble?
feature “Warning flags are starting to go up on Wall Street.”
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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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The euro is not so secure
feature When will southern Europeans dump the euro?
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Issue of the week: A record-setting stock market
feature The stock market is booming again, but like in 2000, not all stocks are reaping the benefits of the boom.
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Issue of the week: When is inflation just right?
feature Though it has been battled in past decades, some economists believe a little inflation is good for a weak economy.
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Issue of the week: Comcast buying Time Warner Cable
feature Has Comcast won the cable wars?
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Issue of the week: Has Washington defeated Wall Street?
feature The Dodd-Frank Act forced banks to sell off “many of their classic ‘Wall Street’ businesses. How are the banks doing?
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Issue of the week: Jamie Dimon’s big raise
feature After a year of lawsuits, fines, and government probes, JPMorgan is giving CEO Jamie Dimon a massive raise.
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Issue of the week: Helping the long-term unemployed
feature Are jobless benefits the best approach?
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