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Issue of the week: The Burger King buyout
feature For the second time in 10 years, a private-equity firm has gobbled up Burger King.
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Issue of the week: Those horrible housing numbers
feature The housing market had its worst showing since 1995, raising the possibility that an industry that led the economy out of seven of the last eight recessions might this time “kill the recovery.”
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Issue of the week: Do soaring profits point to a recovery?
feature Corporate profits have rebounded 65 percent since 2008, but with the exception of Wall Street firms, higher earnings have not yielded more jobs.
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Issue of the week: Which way for the stock market?
feature Among the warning signs for a sharp fall in stock prices is the 10 percent surge in the Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index since late August. It has surged in the absence of data suggesting a strengthening economy.
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Issue of the week: A fog over foreclosures
feature The growing foreclosure scandal “is becoming both a financial and a political hot potato,” said the Financial Times in an editorial.
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Is Comic Sans the 'worst font of all time'?
feature Design fans are mobilizing to protest Comic Sans, a supremely silly typeface that is showing up everywhere from porn sites to gravestones
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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 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: 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: 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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Columnist of the Year finalists
feature A brief look at this year's nominees
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Blogger of the Year finalists
feature A brief look at this year's nominees
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Issue of the week: How Buffett runs his empire
feature Buffett admits that he erred in initially treating David Sokol's purchase of stock in Lubrizol so lightly.
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The Opinion Awards judges
feature Brief bios of the panelists making the big decisions
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