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Moneybox
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Is Wal-Mart in Trouble?
How Amazon and the strengthening economy are threatening the once-invincible retail giant.
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À La Carte Won’t Fix Cable
Unbundling cable will actually raise prices and reduce choices for most customers.
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The Salvation of Japan
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s bold recovery strategy is working.
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The Genius of Tesla
The electric car company is a little bit Apple, a little bit Google, and about to be huge.
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The Fall of Jamie Dimon
His woes prove that the banking sector hasn’t been reformed at all.
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Actually, Keynes Cared a Lot About the Long Run
Niall Ferguson’s claim that John Maynard Keynes only focused on the short run because he was gay and childless is ludicrous and completely wrong.
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Stop “Disrupting” Everything
How a once-useful concept turned into a meaningless buzzword.
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America Is Exactly 3 Percent Richer Than We Thought
How a new way of measuring economic output will boost GDP.
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Internet Sales Taxes Are Inevitable
Even Amazon now supports taxes for e-commerce.
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To Secure the Border, Let in More Immigrants
Limiting the number of immigrants encourages human smuggling, which makes it easier for bad guys to enter.
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Stop Whining About Air Travel
Flying is safer, cheaper, and better than ever. And luggage fees are great.
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The IRS Should File Your Taxes for You
Tax filing could take five minutes, but a perverse alliance of tax-prep lobbyists and conservative activists is keeping it hard.
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The Class War Has Begun
Obama is waging it against the rich. The Republicans are waging it against the poor.
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Scrap the Corporate Income Tax
It can’t possibly be “reformed,” so let’s just get rid of it.
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Print Money. Mail Everybody a Check.
Fight unemployment by giving money directly to American families.
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The Cellphone Merger America Needs
Why the proposed combination of T-Mobile and MetroPCS would force Verizon and AT&T to improve.
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The Glory Days of American Journalism
Ignore the doomsayers: The news-reading public has never had more and better information at their fingertips.
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Two Cheers for Cyprus
The plan to punish Cypriot bank depositors is hideously unfair, but it contains the germ of a great idea.
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How Rich Is the Catholic Church?
Nobody really knows, because religious groups don’t need to follow regular accounting and disclosure rules.
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The Democrats' Exceedingly Timid Budget
Why is Patty Murray’s plan so boring compared with Paul Ryan’s?
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Smart, Poor Kids Are Applying to the Wrong Colleges
How an information mismatch is costing America’s best colleges 20,000 low-income students every year.
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Banks Borrow Way Too Much
A great new book argues that the finance industry’s love of debt endangers the whole economy.
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Apple Versus Its Shareholders
Why its $135 billion cash hoard is hurting its stock price.
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A Truly Depressing Visit to JCPenney
Penney CEO—and former Apple retail czar—Ron Johnson thought he could reinvent the department store. Instead he’s destroying it.
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It’s Time for You To Lead, John Boehner
Stop blaming the president: The House speaker is the only one who can fix the budget mess.
