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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: 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: 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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The myth of strategic defaults
feature The threat of “walkaway” homeowners has been vastly overblown, said Michael Hiltzik at the Los Angeles Times.
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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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Viewpoint: Geoff Colvin
feature From Fortune: “Wall Street has to change in painful ways. The major firms, gloriously profitable just a few years ago, are not earning their cost of capital. They’re failing...
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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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Issue of the week: Sexism in the tech industry
feature Silicon Valley's “persistent problem with women” surfaced when a female developer called out male colleagues for making sexual puns.
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Viewpoint: Allan Sloan
feature From Fortune: “We have an unfortunate tendency in this country to treat people as either heroes or villains, with no gradations in between....
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A generation keen on selling
feature Their “ideal social form” is the small business, and they aspire to launch food carts, techie startups, and socially responsible companies, said William Deresiewicz at The New York Times.
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In praise of the introvert
feature Brainstorming sessions have been shown to be “one of the worst possible ways to stimulate creativity,” and the bigger the group, the worse the performance, said Susan Cain at The New York Times.
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How supply chains hinge on Asia
feature For complex products like the iPhone, any disruption in the supply of a single, tiny component can wreak havoc on the whole “tangled chain,” said David Pilling at the Financial Times.
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When 401(k)s make us poorer
feature For the many who can’t afford to defer a portion of each paycheck, 401(k)s are a raw deal, said Stephen Gandel at Time.com.
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Why I’ll never go to Davos
feature As long as leaders are unwilling to “give up control of their narratives,” collaboration on major global problems will remain impossible, said Mohamed El-Erian at Reuters.com.
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