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Issue of the week: Jamie Dimon’s Whale nightmare
feature The CEO of JPMorgan Chase is in hot water after a Senate report revealed that he had signed off on risky deals made by a London trader.
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Issue of the week: The 21st Century Glass-Steagall Act
feature Sen. Elizabeth Warren is gearing up for some “financial rabble-rousing.”
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Business columns: Netflix shows the way on CEO pay
feature As Netflix has prospered, so has Hastings—but in tandem with other shareholders rather than at their expense, said Chris O’Brien in MercuryNews.com.
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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: AOL’s million-dollar babies
feature AOL’s “gaffe-prone” CEO, Tim Armstrong, “got in some hot water” last week.
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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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Breaking cable TV’s power
feature Why is cable television’s monopoly so stubborn?
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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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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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The myth of U.S. entrepreneurs
feature Americans are actually “pretty unexceptional” when it comes to building businesses.
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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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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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