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Issue of the week: The rise and fall of Groupon
feature Can the daily deals site get back on track?
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Reaganomics won’t help us now
feature Republican candidates vying to claim Reagan’s mantle “misunderstand the premises” of his policies, said Bruce Bartlett at The Washington Post.
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The myth of U.S. entrepreneurs
feature Americans are actually “pretty unexceptional” when it comes to building businesses.
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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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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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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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Issue of the week: The economy’s new normal
feature Are we in “a permanent slump?”
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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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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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The myth of strategic defaults
feature The threat of “walkaway” homeowners has been vastly overblown, said Michael Hiltzik at the Los Angeles Times.
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Viewpoint: Geoff Colvin
feature From Fortune: “Wall Street has to change in painful ways. The major firms, gloriously profitable just a few years ago, are not earning their cost of capital. They’re failing...
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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: 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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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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