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A bright spot in a lackluster jobs report
feature State governments have been adding jobs for two straight months.
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Issue of the week: The true cost of the shutdown
feature Now we know: “Shutdowns aren’t cheap.”
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Issue of the week: Signs of a true recovery
feature Could the economy finally be back on track?
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Issue of the week: Is 2014 the recovery year?
feature Economic forecasters generally think 2014 will “be a breakout year” for the U.S. economy.
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Issue of the week: Why Google unloaded Motorola
feature Three years after shelling out $12.5 billion for Motorola, Google announced its sale to Lenovo Group for $2.9 billion.
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Issue of the week: Yahoo’s $1.1 billion Tumblr deal
feature Yahoo’s purchase of Tumblr is basically “a billion dollar bailout.”
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Business columns: 9/15 may loom larger than 9/11
feature When the history books are written, 9/15—marking the Sept. 15, 2008, collapse of Lehman Brothers—will likely be the more important date, said Gideon Rachman in the Financial Times.
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In defense of the 1 percent
feature Face it: The 1 percenters “generally have the nerve, drive, and self-assurance that the rest of us could only dream of,” said John Tamny of Forbes.com.
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The dark art of tax dodging
feature It shows how desperately we need corporate tax reform when “even a company like P&G practices the dark tax-avoiding arts,” said Allan Sloan at Fortune.
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The myth of American productivity
feature Government statistics reveal nothing about how a company improves productivity, and sadly, U.S. workers “often have little to do with the gains,” said Michael Mandel at the Washington Monthly.
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China’s inevitable crisis
feature Subsidized companies keep building “unnecessary and unprofitable” factories, and government-directed banks keep pumping out money that will be wasted, said Michael Schuman at Time.com.
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Banning banker bonuses
feature No one employed by a company that “would require a taxpayer-financed bailout if it failed” should ever get a bonus, period, said Nassim Nicholas Taleb at The New York Times.
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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: Twitter’s public stock offering
feature As Twitter prepares for its initial public offering, “its books aren’t pretty.”
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