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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: Facebook’s new approach
feature Will Facebook's 1 billion active users “like” the first major redesign since 2006?
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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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Issue of the week: How Yellen spooked the markets
feature At her first press conference, the new Federal Reserve chair made the mistake of indicating when the Fed would raise interest rates.
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Issue of the week: Why was hiring so slow in December?
feature A very disappointing jobs report for December douses a budding era of good feeling with “a great deal of uncertainty.”
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Issue of the week: Facebook’s $19B WhatsApp deal
feature Facebook agreed to pay $19 billion for WhatsApp, a 5-year-old business with 50 employees and revenues of $20 million.
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Stop calling women ‘bossy’
feature Let’s ban “She’s bossy.” Instead, let’s try, “She has executive leadership skills.”
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Issue of the week: GM’s recall disaster
feature Mary Barra is facing “her first big test” since she took over as GM’s new CEO in January: a recall of more than 1.6 million vehicles.
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Issue of the week: Car dealers’ showdown with Tesla
feature Tesla's direct-sale business model is coming under fire in New Jersey and many other states.
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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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Issue of the week: Are tech IPOs riding a bubble?
feature “Warning flags are starting to go up on Wall Street.”
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Issue of the week: Avoiding corporate tax
feature Americans should be outraged about corporate tax dodging.
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Issue of the week: China’s big oil buy
feature Iraq has become one of the world’s top oil producers, with half of its oil-field production shipped to China daily.
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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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