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Issue of the week: A takeover wave in banking
feature What the takeover wave among the Big Three commercial banks—which held 21.4 percent of bank deposits at the end of last year and hold 31.3 percent today—means for consumers and investors.
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Early winter for Republicans
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Issue of the week: Can Warren Buffett save the market?
feature Warren Buffett, who has pumped billions into Goldman Sachs and General Electric, has emerged as the "go-to guy" for companies that are short of capital.
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McCain's unraveling began with Palin
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Best Columns: Business
feature Investors sink their claws into executive pay; The damage done by oil speculators
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Issue of the week: Congress plays chicken with the AMT
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Best columns: Business
feature The winner so far in the 2008 election; When everyone is merging, it’s probably too late
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Issue of the week: Bracing for the scourge of ‘stagflation’
feature The economy isn’t as bad as you think—it’s worse, said Gerard Baker in the London Times. While political and business leaders have been focused on the credit crisis and the “deepening recession,” a new threat has emerged—“accelerating inflation,” which, c
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Best columns: Business
feature Why venture capitalists’ ears are burning; Our war on tourists is only hurting ourselves
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Best columns: Business
feature Hawking those ‘must-have’ medicines; The real purpose of the ‘stimulus package’
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Issue of the week: Why TV writers are celebrating
feature The writers saw the future of television and went on strike to win a piece of it, said Economist.com. And after 100 days on the picket line, they succeeded. Under a tentative agreement struck this week by the Writers Guild of America and television produc
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Issue of the week: What war in the Caucasus means for oil prices
feature The price of oil decreased by 22 percent since its high in mid-July, but the war in Georgia, which has two oil pipelines, has roiled the market and raised concerns about future supplies.
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Issue of the week: Is the worst over for banks?
feature While banks have written down most of the losses incurred on subprime mortages, problems with other assets are showing up.
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Issue of the week: The SEC hunts rumormongers
feature SEC Chairman Christopher Cox plans to investigate the role of rumormongers in the fall of Bear Stearns and in the unfounded stories that Lehman Brothers is about to be taken over. But some people think the cure may be worse than the disease.
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