Latest articles by Ryu Spaeth
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Toyota's $1 billion settlement: Has the automaker buried its recall problems?
feature The Japanese company is seeking to restore its reputation for quality and safety
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Are healthier drinks the key to Coca-Cola's future?
feature As the demand for sugary soda declines, the world's largest soft-drink maker may need to turn to water and juices
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Is Boeing's 787 Dreamliner in trouble?
feature The future of aircraft has run into some ominous problems
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The stellar February jobs report — and why the labor market recovery could be fleeting
feature Employers added 236,000 jobs last month, bringing the unemployment rate down to 7.7 percent. But budget cuts could scuttle progress
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Could the Dow really reach 36,000?
feature The stock market's surge is being greeted by at least one outlandish prediction
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Yahoo's telecommuting ban: Does working from home make you less productive?
feature New CEO Marissa Mayer is making all employees come into the office, sparking no small amount of grumbling
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How the high corporate tax rate pushes U.S. companies to stash their cash overseas
The Explainer General Electric, Whirlpool, and other mega-companies are sitting on gigantic piles of money. And they're storing those piles in other countries
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Today in business: 5 things you need to know
feature The U.S. trade deficit falls, Boeing's Dreamliner problems worsen, and more in our roundup of the business stories that are making news and driving opinion
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The government's plan to get out of General Motors: Too soon?
The Explainer A new plan to sell GM shares will likely cost taxpayers billions of dollars
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Should Office Depot merge with OfficeMax?
feature The two companies are considering joining forces in the face of an existential threat from Amazon
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Can HBO Go compete with Netflix?
feature The premiere cable channel locks up a 10-year deal with Universal Pictures
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The Connecticut school massacre: Are investors backing away from the gun business?
feature Cerberus, a private equity firm, is selling the company that makes the Bushmaster rifle used in the shooting
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The kerfuffle over Instagram's new user terms: Overblown?
feature Facebook, Foursquare, and Twitter have similar agreements
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Why are gas prices spiking?
feature Cheap fuel is usually one of winter's few bright spots. Not this year
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2014 was the best year for American jobs since 1999
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France's far right is glibly exploiting the Charlie Hebdo attacks
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Feds to recommend felony charges against David Petraeus
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The viral email from the most disappointed father on earth
The Explainer "It is obvious," a British father writes his grown children, "that none of you has the faintest notion of the bitter disappointment each of you has in your own way dished out to us"
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Is this ancient Roman ring the inspiration for The Lord of the Rings?
feature J.R.R. Tolkien supposedly did research on the artifact before publishing his epic fantasy
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The utter travesty of the new Monopoly cat token
feature The internet predictably chose the most popular thing on the internet to replace the unfairly maligned iron
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Narcissistic, broke, and 7 other ways to describe the Millennial generation [Updated]
feature This new generation of adults — portrayed most recently in HBO's Girls — has proved quite difficult to define, but not for lack of trying
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You can now smoke weed in Washington, D.C.
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North Korea calls for U.N. probe into U.S. 'torture crimes'
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Pope Francis helped broker Cuba deal between President Obama and Raul Castro
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