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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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In defense of the big banks
feature The argument for breaking up big banks may be “simple and sound-bite-ready,” but every part of it is “based on a fallacy.”
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Issue of the week: When body-shaming backfires
feature Lululemon’s founder, Chip Wilson, offended customers when he “implied that plus-size people should shop elsewhere.”
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Issue of the week: How Yellen spooked the markets
feature At her first press conference, the new Federal Reserve chair made the mistake of indicating when the Fed would raise interest rates.
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Business columns: Netflix shows the way on CEO pay
feature As Netflix has prospered, so has Hastings—but in tandem with other shareholders rather than at their expense, said Chris O’Brien in MercuryNews.com.
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The real victims of Herbalife
feature “It’s been a wild ride lately for Herbalife.”
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Stop calling women ‘bossy’
feature Let’s ban “She’s bossy.” Instead, let’s try, “She has executive leadership skills.”
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One CEO takes a noble stand
feature Gerard J. Arpey may be “the only airline CEO who regarded bankruptcy not simply as a financial tool but, more important, as a moral failing,” said D. Michael Lindsay at The New York Times.
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The true meaning of ‘greed’
feature In its original meaning, greed is a vice that’s “bad for society” because it uses “coercion or deception to advance one’s well-being at the expense of another,” said Charles Kadlec in Forbes.com.
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Measure results, not hours
feature Too many businesses judge an employee’s performance by hours worked rather than by value created.
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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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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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