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Issue of the week: Does Bernanke deserve a second term?
feature Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke testified before an often-hostile Senate Banking Committee to make the case for his reappointment to a second term.
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Issue of the week: Will business start hiring again?
feature A survey of 1,431 corporate chief financial officers found that most “expect business conditions to improve in 2010, but that hiring will be flat or down.”
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Issue of the week: Recovery, interrupted
feature The poor outlook on unemployment is raising doubts about the prospects of a healthy recovery in the economy.
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Issue of the week: What’s wrong with the ‘euro-zone’?
feature The 16 nations of Europe share a single currency, but each country has near-total political and budgetary autonomy.
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Issue of the week: The shape of financial reform
feature The Senate Banking Committee's reform bill would put the Federal Reserve in charge of overseeing all banks with assets of $50 billion or more, as well as large “non-bank” financial firms whose failure could threaten the financial system.
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Issue of the week: Can the euro survive?
feature The dream of a Europe-wide currency has turned into a nightmare.
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Issue of the week: Where will the jobs come from?
feature Industries that once provided jobs for millions of workers of all skill levels aren't expected to return to their former size anytime soon.
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Issue of the week: Is it time to tackle the deficit?
feature At long last, Congress is showing some “urgency to rein in budget deficits,” said former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan in The Wall Street Journal.
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Issue of the week: Is China’s cheap-labor party over?
feature A strike at Honda's auto-parts plant in southern China is a signal that Chinese factory workers are no longer willing to accept rock-bottom wages for backbreaking labor.
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Issue of the week: How did Madoff get away with it?
feature Questions about the extent of Bernard Madoff's fraud and the failure of the Securities and Exchange Commission to detect it are multiplying.
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Will Republicans learn from history, too?
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Issue of the week: The Ponzi scheme that’s shaking Wall Street
feature In what may be the largest investment scam in history, Bernard Madoff was charged last week with securities fraud after confessing to running a $50 billion “Ponzi scheme.”
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Ehud Barak's mission in Gaza
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Bush's search for a legacy
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