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“I cannot bear Netanyahu, he’s a liar,” Sarkozy told Obama, unaware that the microphones in their meeting room had been swi…

By Associated Press

The wealth gap between younger and older Americans has stretched to the widest on record, worsened by a prolonged economic downturn that has wiped out job opportunities for youn…

By Nieman Watchdog

Longtime journalist and commentator Bill Moyers was the keynote speaker on October 20 at the 40th anniversary celebration of Public Citizen, the “countervailing force to corporate…

By Malcolm Gladwell

One of the great puzzles of the industrial revolution is why it began in England. Why not France, or Germany? Many reasons have been offered. Britain had plentiful supplies of c…

By Sarah A. Low and Stephen Vogel

This study uses nationally representative data on marketing of local foods to assess the relative scale of local food marketing channels. This research documents t…

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I recently spent an entire evening talking to a good friend of mine about annuities. Why? Because his father was considering buying one, as he has just re…

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He set out to create a mini-Goldman Sachs. In the end, he built a mini-Lehman Brothers.
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The investigation into hundreds of millions of dollars in missing money at MF Global has widened, as the CME Group confirmed on Tuesday that the brokerage firm failed to…

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I just got a message from a reader for the third time today. It proposes that we support Warren Buffet’s proposals to amend the US Constitution.

I responded, “So you want t…

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The U.S. plans on being an active partner as efforts intensify to get Europe get back on its feet financially, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner told CNBC Friday.

With global leader…

By Deirdre Walsh

Congress voted Wednesday on a bipartisan basis to pass free-trade bills with Colombia, Panama and South Korea.

President Barack Obama, who dined Thursday at a Korean restaurant wi…

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They’re protesting big banks and corporations, so which start-ups are Occupy Wall Street looking to for collecting donations and financing a new media endeavor?

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In a controversial and potentially groundbreaking decision, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has submitted a document supporting the commercial production of a genetically engineer…

By Edith Honan

Pennsylvania’s capital, Harrisburg, filed for a rare Chapter 9 municipal bankruptcy on Wednesday after it was unable to resolve its debt crisis with creditors and faced a possible ta…

How Firms Trimmed Pensions

As companies have been moving away from traditional pension plans, they have been shifting employees to new retirement plans, such as 401(k)s, that transfer the cost — …

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’I’M not interested in being hip or a hippie. Nor does my happiness particularly hinge on ar…