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Battered Liberal Syndrome
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Issue of the week: Rebooting the bank bailout
feature The U.S. government is preparing a second attempt to purge the economy of bad assets.
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Mass Murder and the Square Deal
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Issue of the week: Does Goldman have too much power?
feature Once the most respected name on Wall Street, Goldman is now the subject of rumors and conspiracy theories.
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Conservative media clobber the GOP
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Issue of the week: What does Comcast see in NBC?
feature By acquiring control of NBC Universal, Comcast would get Universal Pictures, the NBC broadcast network, 10 local TV stations, programming franchises like Law & Order, and a collection of cable channels including MSNB
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Issue of the week: A blockbuster insider-trading case
feature The CEO of the Galleon Group of hedge funds was arrested and charged with insider trading, along with two executives of another hedge fund, an IBM executive, an Intel executive, and a consultant with McKinsey & Co.
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Issue of the week: Can the stock market rally last?
feature The Dow Jones industrial average has climbed 50 percent in the past six months and is now close to the 10,000 mark.
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Issue of the week: What did the G-20 accomplish?
feature Leaders at the G-20 summit established "an elaborate structure to coordinate economic policies,” though they failed to create a mechanism to discipline any country that doesn’t cooperate.
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Issue of the week: What’s so bad about a falling dollar?
feature The value of the dollar has been down 15 percent against the euro in recent weeks, and last week it traded at its lowest point against the yen since December 2008.
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Issue of the week: Did Goldman get off easy?
feature Goldman Sachs settled the lawsuit brought by the Securities and Exchange Commission by agreeing to pay a fine of $550 million. The company acknowledged making mistakes, but did not admit to doing anything wrong.
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Issue of the week: Is Obama anti-business?
feature The administration is begining to lose the support of the business community.
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Issue of the week: Avoiding the deflation trap
feature Bankers and some big-time investors are becoming concerned about a deflationary cycle in the economy.
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Quote of the week: Brian Brenberg
feature From The Washington Times: “In 2008, we rescued the banks. In 2009, we pledged $900 billion to rescue the rest of the economy. Last month we extended jobless benefits...
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