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The Nation: Too Big to Fail?
Posted: July 19th, 2008, 11:38pm EDT by By PETER S. GOODMAN
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The ultimate reassurance about the national economy: If debt stopped Americans from consuming, the pain would go global.
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The Nation: Whispering With Intent
Posted: July 19th, 2008, 11:28pm EDT by By JONATHAN D. GLATER
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Market chatter is one thing, malign rumor that distorts the market quite another.
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Needing a Star, CNBC Made One
Posted: July 19th, 2008, 10:40pm EDT by By BRIAN STELTER
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Erin Burnett’s meteoric rise is the most recent example of how television networks try to transform fresh-faced hosts into household names.
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Ventures: Landlords, if Only by Accident
Posted: July 19th, 2008, 8:29pm EDT by By VIVIAN MARINO
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The housing market morass has created a new class of real estate investors: the unintentional landlords.
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Career Couch: Another Meeting? Say It Isn’t So
Posted: July 19th, 2008, 8:26pm EDT by By PHYLLIS KORKKI
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You’re expected to attend many meetings at your company, and most of them are a big waste of time. It’s excruciating. Can anything be done?
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The Boss: It’s Clearly Not Retirement
Posted: July 19th, 2008, 8:25pm EDT by By VIKRAM TALWAR; As told to PATRICIA R. OLSEN
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Mr. Talwar is the executive chairman of EXL Service Holdings, a business process outsourcer.
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As Oil Slides, Rallies for Dow and S.& P.
Posted: July 19th, 2008, 8:24pm EDT by By JEFF SOMMER
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Oil prices dropped sharply last week, and the stock market rallied after four weeks of losses.
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Off the Shelf: Who Wants to Retire Later? (Don’t Laugh)
Posted: July 19th, 2008, 8:22pm EDT by By HARRY HURT III
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In their new book, Alicia H. Munnell and Steven A. Sass argue that we may have to work longer and retire later if we want to avoid a decline in our standard of living.
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Economic View: Means Testing, for Medicare
Posted: July 19th, 2008, 8:14pm EDT by By TYLER COWEN
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No matter who sits in the Oval Office next year, there won’t be many degrees of freedom in the federal budget. The main problem: Medicare.
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Novelties: Sweeping Panoramas, Courtesy of a Robot
Posted: July 19th, 2008, 8:12pm EDT by By ANNE EISENBERG
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Robots already cut the grass and vacuum rugs. Now they are helping with a more artistic job: creating vast photographic panoramas with ordinary cameras.
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Ping: Inside Nairobi, the Next Palo Alto?
Posted: July 19th, 2008, 8:09pm EDT by By G. PASCAL ZACHARY
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A relatively small number of places — all in wealthy countries or in China and India — create nearly every important technological advance. But some in Nairobi are hoping to change that.
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The Count: Internet Banking Is No Fun Without Money
Posted: July 19th, 2008, 8:04pm EDT by By PHYLLIS KORKKI
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When it comes to online banking services, Generation Y has not adopted them as aggressively as Generation X.
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Suits: At an Air Show, Competing With the Roars and the Ringtones
Posted: July 19th, 2008, 7:59pm EDT by By MICHELINE MAYNARD, ELIZABETH OLSON, PATRICIA R. OLSEN and MICHELLE LEDER
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With jet fighters overhead, it was easy to be distracted at the Farnborough International Airshow last week. But for executives, there were distractions on the ground, too.
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Can Si Newhouse Keep Condé Nast’s Gloss Going?
Posted: July 19th, 2008, 7:56pm EDT by By RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑA
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Si Newhouse, the chairman of Condé Nast Publications, defies the image of the media baron driven by love of limelight, political influence or money.
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Fair Game: Borrowers and Bankers: A Great Divide
Posted: July 19th, 2008, 7:27pm EDT by By GRETCHEN MORGENSON
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The credit crisis has exacerbated a dangerous division between average borrowers and an elite slice of corporations, banks and executives enriched by the mortgage mania.
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Putting Your House to Work in Film
Posted: July 19th, 2008, 1:26pm EDT by By VIVIAN S. TOY
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New Yorkers love to complain about television or film crews that descend on their neighborhoods. But some are renting their homes to those crews, and making up to $10,000 a day.
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Consumed: Mash-Up Model
Posted: July 19th, 2008, 12:28am EDT by By ROB WALKER
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Music you could never buy on iTunes tests the pay-what-you-want business model.
