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Of Course Apple Avoids Billions in Taxes—and It Should Reuters

Of Course Apple Avoids Billions in Taxes—and It Should

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).

A Marriage Mystery: Why Aren't More Wives Outearning Their Husbands? _rockinflee/Flickr

A Marriage Mystery: Why Aren't More Wives Outearning Their Husbands?

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?

A Simple Graph That Should Silence Austerians and Gold Bugs Forever

The U.S. recovery hasn't been pretty. But it's been prettier than Europe and Japan, for sure.

Don't Look Now, but Our Medicare Spending Projections Are Plummeting Reuters

Don't Look Now, but Our Medicare Spending Projections Are Plummeting

Predictions are hard, especially about health care inflation

Well, This Is Just Awful: 'Renting' Disabled People to Skip Lines at Disney World
Why Washington Saved the Economy, Then Permanently Destroyed the Labor Market Reuters

Why Washington Saved the Economy, Then Permanently Destroyed the Labor Market

Comparing Washington's reaction to the banking crisis and the unemployment crisis shows how and why government focuses on the rich and ignores the rest

How Motherhood Is Changing Dramatically—in 11 Graphs

A charty Mother's Day summary

Can John McCain Break Up the Cable Bundle Forever? (No, Probably Not) Reuters

Can John McCain Break Up the Cable Bundle Forever? (No, Probably Not)

A la carte television sounds wonderful. But it's not happening. And it could be a big headache if it did.

The Global Youth Jobless Crisis: A Tragic Mess That Is Not Getting Any Better Reuters

The Global Youth Jobless Crisis: A Tragic Mess That Is Not Getting Any Better

Europe's unemployment inequality is simply astonishing. Germany's jobless rate for young people is 8.2 percent. In Greece, it's 54.2 percent.

AOL Is Still the Weirdest Successful Tech Company in America Reuters

AOL Is Still the Weirdest Successful Tech Company in America

... and a perfect lesson in why we shouldn't confuse great stocks for great companies

The Twlight of the Sharing Economy—or the Dawn?

A tale of two Web 3.0 ideas: car-sharing and daily deals

How Our Incredible Shrinking Government Raises Unemployment and Hurts the Recovery

With normal post-recession government employment expansion, unemployment might be as low as 6.3 percent.

Did the Internet Save Marriage? Reuters

Did the Internet Save Marriage?

A new study finds broadband access leads to higher marriage rates. But whether the Web is making our marriages better, we can't say.

What's Government Insurance Really For? Lessons From the Medicaid Study Reuters

What's Government Insurance Really For? Lessons From the Medicaid Study

Medicaid didn't conclusively protect patients from diabetes. But it did protect them from financial ruin.

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