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Issue of the week: The ‘real’ unemployment rate
feature The Labor Department’s latest jobs data look deceivingly positive.
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Issue of the week: BlackBerry’s chances for survival
feature Is BlackBerry finally dead?
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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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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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Getting more by working less
feature A shorter workweek would produce happier, healthier workers and put many of the unemployed back to work, said Richard Schiffman at The Washington Post.
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Business columns: The real villains of foreclosure
feature Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac own more than half of all U.S. mortgages and pay some of the nation’s largest banks to service them, said Stephen Meister in the New York Post.
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Issue of the week: Blocking a major airline merger
feature The Justice Department and six states filed suit to block the proposed merger between American Airlines and US Airways.
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Issue of the week: Yahoo’s $1.1 billion Tumblr deal
feature Yahoo’s purchase of Tumblr is basically “a billion dollar bailout.”
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Issue of the week: Is JPMorgan’s fine unfair?
feature The CEO of JPMorgan Chase helped to “save the financial system five years ago,” yet the bank now has to pay a $13 billion settlement.
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Viewpoint: Kevin Drum
feature From MotherJones.com: “The Internet makes dumb people dumber and smart people smarter. If you don’t know how to use it...
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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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Issue of the week: Do high-speed traders rig the market?
feature Wall Street is abuzz over high-frequency trading.
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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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Wall Street schools the Ivies
feature All the deans deploring finance’s irresistible pull should wake up to their own responsibility to better prepare their students for employment, said Ezra Klein at The Washington Post.
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