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Reuters Everything You Need to Know About High-Frequency Trading
Why the algobots that rule Wall Street are good—and why they're evil, too.
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Reuters Stop Worrying About Inflation—the Recovery Is Still as Slow as Ever
Book it: We've added between 150,000 and 200,000 jobs almost every month this recovery. This time, we added 192,000.
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Henry Nicholls / Reuters Why Don't the 1 Percent Feel Rich?
The merely rich are making more, but they're not worth more. It's the 0.01 percent that are creating our new Gilded Age.
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Reuters The Trillions of Dollars U.S. Companies Are Hoarding Overseas
And a tax repatriation holiday is no way to get them to bring it all back home.
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Reuters Japan Is Doomed Unless It Learns to Love Inflation
For 25 years, Japan has shied away from trying to increase inflation. But now that it's trying to get prices to rise by 2 percent, it needs to do much more.
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Jim Young / Reuters Are the Suburbs Making People Live Paycheck-to-Paycheck?
Households without any cash savings are twice as likely to be wealthy as poor.
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Reuters Your Last Minute Guide to Picking the Perfect NCAA Bracket*
* Or at least avoiding the teams that will blow it up
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Reuters The Polar Vortex Kept Shoppers at Home—Will the Economy Pick Up Now?
Are consumers ready to come back out and start spending again?
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Reuters How China (and the Rest of the Emerging Markets) Spend Today
After 30 years of catchup growth, consumers around the world are starting to look more and more American.
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Reuters The Fed Absolutely Shouldn't Give Up on the Long-Term Unemployed
The new inflation hawks think labor markets are "tight" even though unemployment is still 6.7 percent. That's crazy.
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Columbia Pictures We Can't Escape Our 'Groundhog Day' Recovery
Every day, we wake up hoping that the economy has finally picked up. And every day, we wake up to
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Reuters Republicans 'Support' Expanding the EITC—Just Not If It Costs Money
Obama wants childless workers to receive the Earned Income Tax Credit. Republicans say they do too. So why won't it happen? Blame the tyranny of deficit hawks.
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Reuters Fixing Inequality Won't Hurt the Economy
A new paper shows that countries that redistribute more grow faster and for longer periods than those that leave inequality be.
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Reuters How the Fed Let the World Blow Up in 2008
High oil prices blinded the Fed to the growing danger before the crash
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Reuters Happy Birthday, Stimulus! You Saved the World
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act turned five this week. It could have been better. But without it, the economy would be much worse.
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Reuterse The Crushingly Expensive Mistake Killing Your Retirement
401(k) fees are costing you hundreds of thousands of dollars over your lifetime.
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Reuters This Is Janet Yellen's Biggest Challenge
Forward guidance might only be as good as the data is bad.
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Wikimedia Commons That Viral Chart Predicting Another 1929 Stock-Market Crash? It's Absurd
Beware of fund managers bearing double y-axes.
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Reuters Michael Sam, Jackie Robinson, and Why the Bigots Always Lose
In the race for talent, bigotry is self-defeating. That's why the best teams across professional sports have often been the least prejudiced.
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Wikimedia Commons High-Speed Trading Isn't About Efficiency—It's About Cheating
When hedge funds use bots to buy and sell stocks within milliseconds, they're not improving the market. They're rigging the market.
