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The Web's New Gold Mine: Your Secrets
Hidden inside Ashley Hayes-Beaty's computer, a tiny file helps gather personal details about her, all to be put up for sale for a tenth of ...
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4 points, posted 22 hours, 51 minutes ago from
online.wsj.com
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Drug Dealer's Bill of Choice Boosts the Euro Zone
Getty Images Some €285 billion worth of €500 notes are in existence, an annual growth rate of 32% since 2002. (Please see Corrections & Amplifications ...
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4 points, posted 1 day, 1 hour ago from
online.wsj.com
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China Becomes Second Biggest World Economy
China has overtaken Japan to become the world's second-largest economy, the fruit of three decades of rapid growth that has lifted hundreds of millions of ...
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4 points, posted 1 day, 2 hours ago from
cnbc.com
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Congress Is Rethinking Its Ban on Internet Gambling
But the vote suggests a willingness by Congress to look for unconventional ways of plugging holes in the budget and comes as struggling states have ...
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3 points, posted 1 day, 2 hours ago from
nytimes.com
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The World from Berlin: Full Employment Could Be in Germany's Future
"Before the Merkel government went in to summer recess, they were faced with harsh criticism. Among the deficits and failures pointed out were a butchered ...
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3 points, posted 1 day, 2 hours ago from
spiegel.de
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With Credit Tight, Microlending Blossoms
Since the recession, credit cards are harder to come by, real estate values remain low — making it harder to borrow against home equity — ...
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4 points, posted 1 day, 19 hours ago from
nytimes.com
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How the Failure of the Hollywood Stock Exchange Exposed the Movie Industry's Worst Fear
It’s not surprising that an industry steeped in financial shadiness feared such an idea. Despite the casual fluency with which many moviegoers now speak about ...
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5 points, posted 2 days, 14 hours ago from
nymag.com
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How Y Combinator Is Remaking Silicon Valley in Its Image
But Arrington left shortly after his talk, giving 10 more angel investing believers such as Maples and Aydin Senkut the chance to convert the wannabe ...
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3 points, posted 1 day, 18 hours ago from
gigaom.com
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Borrowers Suffer From the Tyranny of the Credit Score
And finally, they don’t take into account the many, many mistakes that are found in credit reports. My own credit reports, which I looked up ...
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5 points, posted 2 days, 20 hours ago from
nytimes.com
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The Growth Imperative
Both the Democratic and Republican approaches have problems. The Moon Shot Approach relies on omniscient experts to pick out the engines of future growth and ...
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2 points, posted 1 day, 2 hours ago from
nytimes.com
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Brazil's Bolsa Família: How to get children out of jobs and into school
Their experience does not mean Bolsa Família has been a failure. On the contrary. By common consent the conditional cash-transfer programme (CCT) has been a ...
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3 points, posted 1 day, 19 hours ago from
economist.com
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Royal Dutch Shell and Exxon profits almost double
Second-quarter profits at oil giant Royal Dutch Shell have almost doubled after the firm completed a year-long corporate restructuring programme. The firm reported profits of ...
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3 points, posted 1 day, 19 hours ago from
bbc.co.uk
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World economy: The rising power of the Chinese worker
This suggests three things. First, China is reluctant to get heavy-handed with workers in big-brand firms that attract global media attention. But, second, China is ...
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3 points, posted 1 day, 19 hours ago from
economist.com
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Schwarzenegger declares California fiscal emergency
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger declared a state of emergency over the state's finances on Wednesday, raising pressure on lawmakers to negotiate a state budget that ...
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3 points, posted 1 day, 19 hours ago from
reuters.com
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High-Frequency Programmers Revolt Over Pay
Pity the programmers toiling away at Wall Street's secretive high-frequency trading shops--places like Goldman Sachs ( GS - news - people ), Citadel and Getco. ...
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3 points, posted 1 day, 20 hours ago from
forbes.com
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Blinder, Zandi Say Bailouts Likely Averted Depression
The U.S. response to the financial crisis probably prevented a depression, slowed a decline in gross domestic product and saved about 8.5 million jobs, economists ...
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3 points, posted 2 days, 9 hours ago from
businessweek.com
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Who Cheats More: Bankers Or Politicians?
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5 points, posted 3 days, 20 hours ago from
andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com
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The Case for $320,000 Kindergarten Teachers
Barely a week seems to go by without a newspaper or television station running a report suggesting that education is overrated. These stories quote liberal ...
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5 points, posted 3 days, 20 hours ago from
nytimes.com
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The job machine grinds to a halt
The problem isn't merely the greatest downturn since the Great Depression. It's also that big business has found a way to make big money without ...
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3 points, posted 2 days, 14 hours ago from
washingtonpost.com
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Oracle's Ellison Tops List of 25 Highest Paid CEOs of Decade
Larry Ellison, founder and chief executive of software maker Oracle Corp., topped the list of best-paid executives of public companies during the past decade, receiving ...
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3 points, posted 2 days, 14 hours ago from
online.wsj.com
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