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Breaking cable TV’s power
feature Why is cable television’s monopoly so stubborn?
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Issue of the week: Facebook’s new approach
feature Will Facebook's 1 billion active users “like” the first major redesign since 2006?
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Wall Street discourages drug R&D
feature When Pfizer announced this year that it was slashing spending on research and development, its shares rose more than 5 percent, said Dan Primack at Fortune.
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Chipotle is a lot like Apple
feature What Steve Jobs did with the cellphone, Chipotle founder Steve Ells has done with fast food, said Matthew Yglesias at Slate.com.
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The SEC’s losing battle against banks
feature By urging the SEC to punish financial crimes more aggressively, Judge Jed Rakoff “may have inadvertently made the SEC’s job” that much tougher, said Tim Fernholz at The New Republic.
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Corzine’s downfall foretold
feature Corzine led Goldman into “its first major financial morass,” in 1998, overseeing trading positions that led to huge losses and delayed the firm’s IPO, said Charles Gasparino at TheDailyBeast.com.
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Issue of the week: What does Black Friday really tell us?
feature Black Friday “wasn’t a bust,” but for many retailers, it was a disappointment.
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Issue of the week: The ‘real’ unemployment rate
feature The Labor Department’s latest jobs data look deceivingly positive.
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Headed for another 1937
feature The parallels between 1937 and today are striking, and they all “have to do with the danger of big government.”
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Issue of the week: BlackBerry’s chances for survival
feature Is BlackBerry finally dead?
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The half-life of software engineers
feature Young software engineers are setting themselves up for dead-end careers.
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Issue of the week: Who gets Fannie’s and Freddie’s profits?
feature Fannie Mae’s and Freddie Mac’s shareholders want their money back.
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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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Business columns: The real villains of foreclosure
feature Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac own more than half of all U.S. mortgages and pay some of the nation’s largest banks to service them, said Stephen Meister in the New York Post.
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