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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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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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Issue of the week: Do high-speed traders rig the market?
feature Wall Street is abuzz over high-frequency trading.
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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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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: 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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The rise of the sharing economy
feature The efficiency of a “post-ownership society” may not translate into economic growth, said Derek Thompson at The Atlantic.
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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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Issue of the week: AOL’s million-dollar babies
feature AOL’s “gaffe-prone” CEO, Tim Armstrong, “got in some hot water” last week.
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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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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: Bloomberg’s spying scandal
feature Last week, we learned that for years Bloomberg reporters have been monitoring how subscribers use their Bloomberg terminals.
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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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