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Fast lane for world’s middle class
feature For a true sense of how quickly the global middle class is growing, just look at car sales.
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Viewpoint: Allan Sloan
feature From Fortune: “We have an unfortunate tendency in this country to treat people as either heroes or villains, with no gradations in between....
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Germany’s cynical fix for Europe
feature The Germans denounce other countries’ profligacy even as they cover up “their own grievous and expensive misjudgments,” said Walter Russell Mead at The American Interest.
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Why I’ll never go to Davos
feature As long as leaders are unwilling to “give up control of their narratives,” collaboration on major global problems will remain impossible, said Mohamed El-Erian at Reuters.com.
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Viewpoint: Lucy Kellaway
feature From the Financial Times: “The young can’t advance because everywhere they find that my complacent generation is in situ. The only way of solving the problem...
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Getting more by working less
feature A shorter workweek would produce happier, healthier workers and put many of the unemployed back to work, said Richard Schiffman at The Washington Post.
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Give public Internet a chance
feature Municipalities are being thwarted by a growing number of state laws, pushed by powerful telecom interests, that make launching public networks all but impossible, said Susan P. Crawford at Bloomberg.com.
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Viewpoint: Kevin Drum
feature From MotherJones.com: “The Internet makes dumb people dumber and smart people smarter. If you don’t know how to use it...
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China’s pricey workers
feature Many former migrants are now seeking opportunities closer to home, and the growing shortage of urban workers will drive up wages further, said Michelle Dammon Loyalka at The New York Times.
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Wall Street schools the Ivies
feature All the deans deploring finance’s irresistible pull should wake up to their own responsibility to better prepare their students for employment, said Ezra Klein at The Washington Post.
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Viewpoint: Kevin Drum
feature From MotherJones.com: “If I had to make a 50-year bet on any region of the world, I’d pick the United States....
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Regulations that coddle big business
feature The practical effect of “anti-corporate” regulations is to make many large corporations more powerful and less innovative, by blocking upstart competitors from entering the market, said Reihan Salam at The Daily.
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Not everyone benefits from college
feature It’s time the U.S. ditched the idea of “college for all.”
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Help others and get more done
feature There is a simple fix for your hectic, time-starved schedule.
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