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Immigrants foster innovation
feature Skilled immigrants inspire our native-born scientists to be more innovative, and their contacts also help multinational firms expand overseas, said Robert Guest in Salon.com.
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Viewpoint: Tom McNichol
feature From TheAtlantic.com: “With the death and canonization of Steve Jobs and the emergence of the Jobs biography as a kind of sacred text for managers...
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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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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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How risk could jump the Atlantic
feature Why would the Fed let such a thinly capitalized bank operate in the U.S. despite its “risk to the rest of the financial system?” asked Simon Johnson at Bloomberg.com.
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David Stern misplays the NBA lockout
feature Stern has “made classic negotiation mistakes” in speaking for league owners, not so much in the terms he’s presenting “but in the way he’s presenting them,” Shelley DuBois at Fortune.
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Viewpoint: Matt Taibbi
feature From RollingStone.com: “You get busted for drugs in this country, and it turns out you can make yourself ineligible to receive food stamps. But you can be a serial fraud offender like Citigroup...
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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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A grim fate awaits brick-and-mortars
feature But before buying an item for a steal on Amazon, many people like to see it first at Best Buy or Target, said Megan McArdle at TheAtlantic.com.
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Why the Fed missed the crisis
feature “The Fed slept’’ for a simple reason: Its own policies helped create the bust, said Robert J. Samuelson at The Washington Post.
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Regulations that coddle big business
feature The practical effect of “anti-corporate” regulations is to make many large corporations more powerful and less innovative, by blocking upstart competitors from entering the market, said Reihan Salam at The Daily.
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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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Help others and get more done
feature There is a simple fix for your hectic, time-starved schedule.
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Not everyone benefits from college
feature It’s time the U.S. ditched the idea of “college for all.”
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