Should we mourn them?
Americans are laboring less than ever. So why do we feel so busy?
The slacker trap
After Facebook's disastrous debut, the preferred clients of big banks walked away with huge profits. How?
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Court documents reveal how the late Apple CEO won over News Corp. on eBook pricing.
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A reminder to Congress: the jobs crisis is still ravaging plenty of communities.
Advanced computing looks at yesterday's treatments to improve tomorrow's
Watson cracks the code to a new world of big data, helping us make better decisions.
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And why it says investors should walk away from risk.
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The story behind one of the best business models in the country -- in lots of lots of graphs.
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Whenever you see a big, bold statistic about the fate of college grads, take it with a grain of salt.
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The big reveal here is two-fold: The U.S. corporate tax code is an impossible dream (we knew that, already); and Apple is acting like a sensible corporation (we knew that, too).
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With women taking more than half of the country's new bachelor's degrees, many of them should be the chief breadwinners in their families. They're not. How come?
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Pets and babies: Competitive goods.
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Skittish college professors won't stop the digital disruption of higher education.
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We should want more college graduates. But we should also want fewer students at colleges with high drop-out rates.
Email me your occupational horror stories -- or leave them in the comments -- and I'll publish the very best, without your name unless you ask otherwise
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The Old Continent has that 1930s feeling
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Okay, I guess you can laugh. At socialism.
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It's not the debt. It's the delinquencies.
The U.S. recovery hasn't been pretty. But it's been prettier than Europe and Japan, for sure.
James Fallows on Jerry Brown's second chance. Plus: the mystery of the second skeleton, how gay couples are getting marriage right, the end of the retail salesperson, and more.
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