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Bribe Fighter
The zero rupee note has attracted attention from the World Bank, which recently highlighted 5th Pillar's work on a widely read blog that focuses on ...
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8 points, posted 3 months, 4 weeks ago from
boston.com
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How a New Jobless Era Will Transform America
The Great Recession may be over, but this era of high joblessness is probably just beginning. Before it ends, it will likely change the life ...
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7 points, posted 5 months, 3 weeks ago from
theatlantic.com
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The best investment advice you'll never get
For 35 years, Bay Area finance revolutionaries have been pushing a personal investing strategy that brokers despise and hope you ignore.
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7 points, posted 4 months, 2 weeks ago from
sanfranmag.com
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The Significant Objects Project
Would you pay $76 for a shot glass? What about $52 for an oven mitt? And $50 for a jar of marbles? You may shake ...
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7 points, posted 6 months, 3 weeks ago from
predictablyirrational.com
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Start-Ups, Not Bailouts
Message: If we want to bring down unemployment in a sustainable way, neither rescuing General Motors nor funding more road construction will do it. We ...
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7 points, posted 3 months, 4 weeks ago from
nytimes.com
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Secrets of the Economist's Trade: First, Purchase a Piggy Bank
Economists are often cheapskates. Their annual meetings, always held the first weekend after New Year's Day, even coincide with hotel rates near the lowest point ...
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6 points, posted 6 months, 4 weeks ago from
wsj.com
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Walk Away From Your Mortgage!
Why should underwater homeowners behave any differently from banks?
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6 points, posted 6 months, 3 weeks ago from
nytimes.com
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An Inside Look at Bernie Madoff's Life in Prison
Last August, shortly after his arrival at the federal correctional complex in Butner, North Carolina, Bernard L. Madoff was waiting on the evening pill line ...
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6 points, posted 1 month, 3 weeks ago from
nymag.com
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Infographic of the Day: Government Bailouts Around the World
The recent economic woes have been truly global--but the the U.S. has been, by far, the hardest hit economy as this new graphic by the ...
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6 points, posted 6 months ago from
fastcompany.com
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Twitter Predicts the Future
The Social Computing Lab at HP Labs in Palo Alto, CA found that using only the rate at which movies are mentioned could successfully predict ...
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6 points, posted 3 months, 4 weeks ago from
kk.org
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Money in Socialist Economies: The Case of North Korea
It is no coincidence that the new currency contains some information on succession, in particular the bank notes that are dated 2008, although we do ...
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6 points, posted 5 months ago from
japanfocus.org
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Five myths about America's credit card debt
They're yuppie food stamps. They give new meaning to the question "paper or plastic?" And they're in everyone's wallet. Americans have nearly 700 million all-purpose ...
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6 points, posted 6 months ago from
washingtonpost.com
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Formula shows why it's so hard to cut jobless rate
The economy's 5.7 percent growth last quarter -- the fastest pace since 2003 -- was a step toward shrinking the nation's 10 percent
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6 points, posted 6 months ago from
yahoo.com
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The surprising truth about what motivates us
Great video talking about recent research on motivation and incentives
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6 points, posted 2 months ago from
youtube.com
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The Next Empire
Yet the railway traces a path through a region where hopes have risen again, rekindled by a new sort of development also driven by China—and ...
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6 points, posted 3 months ago from
theatlantic.com
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Vowel Sounds Influence Consumers Perception of Prices
Vowels like the “o” in “two” are perceived as big, whereas sounds like “ee” seem small. So $2.33 strikes consumers as cheaper than $2.22.
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6 points, posted 6 months, 2 weeks ago from
nytimes.com
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Two Days That Upended Wall Street
In this excerpt from On the Brink: Inside the Race to Stop the Collapse of the Global Financial System, the former Treasury secretary details the ...
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6 points, posted 5 months, 4 weeks ago from
wsj.com
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Betting on the Blind Side
Back in 2004, when Wall Street was in full subprime-craze mode, a reclusive stock picker named Michael Burry read the fine print—and made a fortune. ...
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6 points, posted 4 months, 2 weeks ago from
vanityfair.com
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Ten Key Principles in Economics
Dear Dr. Mankiw,I've been using your introductory textbook for a couple years. I tell students that in five years if all they remember about economics ...
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6 points, posted 5 months, 4 weeks ago from
blogspot.com
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The Lehman Whistleblower's Letter
In May 2008, former Lehman Senior Vice President Matthew Lee wrote a letter to senior management warning that the New York securities firm may have ...
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6 points, posted 4 months, 1 week ago from
wsj.com
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