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Why is corporate turnaround so difficult and rare? The answer is often culture—the hardest thing of all to change.
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Why is corporate turnaround so difficult and rare? The answer is often culture—the hardest thing of all to change.
The Continent’s problems are as much demographic as financial. And they won’t go away anytime soon.
Market thinking so permeates our lives that we barely notice it anymore. A leading philosopher sums up the hidden costs of a price-tag society.
And what that tells us about the economy
Over the course of five months, Don Johnson won $15 million from three different casinos, devastating their monthly revenues. Here’s how he did it.
The left hates him. The right hates him even more. But Ben Bernanke saved the economy—and has navigated masterfully through the most trying of times.
Keynes waxed dire in 1932 when, in the midst of the Great Depression, he concluded the U.S. would "have to wait for stimulus from outside"
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Government grew post-recession under the last three Republican presidents. Under Obama?
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It's fun to guess the future of the American economy. But the past is just as rich. This is the 100-year story of how a nation that feels poor got rich.
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If we have run out of new companies to invest in as stock prices rise, what then?
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Diamonds are forever, but the meaning of the diamond engagement ring has changed dramatically in the last century
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What does owning stock do to our brains?
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Building a Match.com for roommates? Renting our apartments to businesses when we're at the office? Those are just two ideas for housing policy in the Web age.
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Insurance by another name
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Hard questions still exist about whether a new indictment will make any difference.
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Will great free courses drive down applications to places like Stanford? That's doubtful; it's more likely that these offerings will help build a stronger university brand.
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In wealthy households across the Emerald Isle, Irish eyes are smiling. But the rest of the country is totally miserable.
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The country's first $500 million jackpot might not be far away.
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A leading development economist speaks on the virtues and limitations of a data-driven approach to healing the world's most intractable problems
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Government shouldn't be in the business of making the most obvious investments or the most difficult investments. Where does that leave Washington?
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There is a cost to not educating young people. The evidence is literally all around us.
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Two economists put forth a scary -- and scarily realistic -- vision, where the working population expands slower and slower, and jobless recoveries are the only recoveries we know
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.
