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The rise of the sharing economy
feature The efficiency of a “post-ownership society” may not translate into economic growth, said Derek Thompson at The Atlantic.
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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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Issue of the week: AOL’s million-dollar babies
feature AOL’s “gaffe-prone” CEO, Tim Armstrong, “got in some hot water” last week.
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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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Issue of the week: Steve Ballmer’s Microsoft legacy
feature When the CEO of Microsoft announced that he would retire within the year, “the company’s stock surged.”
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Issue of the week: Bloomberg’s spying scandal
feature Last week, we learned that for years Bloomberg reporters have been monitoring how subscribers use their Bloomberg terminals.
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Viewpoint: Kevin Drum
feature From MotherJones.com: “If I had to make a 50-year bet on any region of the world, I’d pick the United States....
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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: 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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