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Portfolio.com - Market Movers
The Times' Rorshach Geithner Story
Mon, 27 Apr 2009 13:26:58 GMT

The New York Times has provided a handy blogging point for today in the form of a long
Sinking Animal Spirits
Mon, 27 Apr 2009 12:45:40 GMT

There are many more pandemic threats than there are pandemics, and so I hope and expect that swine flu will run its course fairly quickly and with...

Counter-cyclical Urban Policy
Sun, 26 Apr 2009 14:00:35 GMT

Matt Yglesias contrasts the fates of the Flint, Michigan and B...

Be Your Own Counterfeiter
Sun, 26 Apr 2009 13:36:15 GMT

One of the stories that was circulating through CNN's news coverage this weekend (but which may have now been crowded out by swine flu, on which m...

Being Tim Geithner
Sat, 25 Apr 2009 16:37:52 GMT

Justin Fox takes a crack at listing...

Notes From a Press Conference Naif
Sat, 25 Apr 2009 13:41:24 GMT

I was in attendance at Tim Geithner's press conference yesterday, at which he spoke briefly about the G7 Ministers meeting and answered a few ques...

What Good is the News?
Sat, 25 Apr 2009 12:32:39 GMT

No doubt you've heard from or about Amity Shlaes in recent months. She's been in demand; her revisionist views on the impact of the New Deal on th...

Stressful Enough
Fri, 24 Apr 2009 18:29:42 GMT

The outline (PDF) of the methodology used to stress test th...

Not Regretting the Pound
Fri, 24 Apr 2009 17:09:19 GMT

It has been interesting to watch the pendulum of opinion on the benefits of eurozone membership swing back and forth during the financial crisis a...

Introducing the New Ford Squeeze
Fri, 24 Apr 2009 13:47:37 GMT

The most fascinating thing to me about the coverage of the fate of Chrysler and General Motors is the extent to which the language has changed sin...

Slate - Economist
Why not start the weekend on Wednesday?
Sat, 27 Dec 2008 07:37:00 EST
Were an alien to pick up our news channels, it would conclude that human civilization depended on the production and purchase of cheap plastic rubbis...

Unemployment benefits do encourage joblessness. But that may not be a bad thing.
Sat, 13 Dec 2008 07:22:43 EST
To most thoughtful people, unemployment benefits embody a painful trade-off. They are the mark of a civilized society, clubbing together to provide a...

Why it's so hard to predict how bad the recession will be.
Sat, 29 Nov 2008 07:03:36 EST
Right about now, most businesses are trying to work out how their customers are likely to respond to the recession. Looking back to the last really n...

Why 20-year-olds should invest way more in the stock market, and 50-year-olds, way less.
Sat, 15 Nov 2008 07:41:24 EST
Here are the chief investment lessons of the financial crisis for today's young people: They should be buying more stocks and running up debts to do ...

What can "neuroeconomics" teach us about how we think about money?
Sat, 1 Nov 2008 07:55:11 EST
This morning, I had a remarkable experience: I strolled into a delicatessen and bought some delicious Stilton. What made the shopping trip unusual wa...

Slate - Today's Business
Drug Companies Go Head-to-Head
Tue, 09 Mar 2010 11:56:16 +0000

The biggest maker of brand-name drugs and the global leader in generic drugs are going head to head for control of Ulm, G...

The Federal Reserve Won't Give Up Its Regulator Role Without a Fight
Mon, 08 Mar 2010 11:38:25 +0000

The Federal Reserve is determined to hang on to its power as the nation’s top financial regulation,
The IRS Wants Companies To Provide a Roadmap for Potential Audits
Fri, 05 Mar 2010 11:56:14 +0000

It’s no secret corporate taxes are incredibly complicated. Companies file returns thousands of pages long, leaving IRS agents ...

Corporations Saved Money Like Everyone Else
Thu, 04 Mar 2010 07:28:54 +0000

Americans all across the country were choosing to save money during the last year, and that includes American corporations,

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Thu, 04 Mar 2010 07:28:54 +0000

Broadband Providers Question FCC’s Authority to Regulate Them
Wed, 03 Mar 2010 11:49:01 +0000

The FCC is dealing with a sudden challenge to its authority, as Internet service providers claim the agency can't regulate the...

Obama Tries New Tactic To Pass Health Bill
Tue, 02 Mar 2010 11:54:40 +0000

This week President Obama is expected to try to pass a health bill using a tactic called reconciliation, which would prev...

Google Accuses Microsoft of Antitrust Proxy War
Mon, 01 Mar 2010 11:51:57 +0000

Oh, the irony. Google (GOOG) believes
Feds Investigate U.S. Banks’ Role in Greek Crisis
Fri, 26 Feb 2010 11:34:53 +0000

Did Goldman Sachs (GS) and other Amer...

Europe’s Got More Problems Than Just Greece
Thu, 25 Feb 2010 07:39:14 +0000

Forget Greece; the euro’s real enemy is Spain,

Portfolio.com - Business News
The ICE Age
Mon, 08 Mar 2010 00:01:00 UTC
One year ago today, a group of big banks quietly launched a new and theoretically safer way to trade derivatives, key to the financial crisis. As law...

SBA Chief: Mind the Credit Gaps
Fri, 26 Feb 2010 00:01:00 UTC
Karen Mills, the head of the Small Business Administration, sits down for an interview and offers her case for what the Obama administration is doing...

What to Do About Shamu
Thu, 25 Feb 2010 12:54:00 UTC
SeaWorld faces not just the tragedy of the death of one of its veteran killer whale trainers, but also a public relations nightmare since Shamu is th...

A Clean Design
Thu, 25 Feb 2010 12:01:00 UTC
San Francisco Bay area architects have the expertise to help China clean up pollution, and it's a business they're diving into.
Coke Bottles Up
Thu, 25 Feb 2010 00:01:00 UTC
Coca-Cola will buy a major stake in its largest bottler, Coca-Cola Enterprises., in a “substantially cashless” deal worth about $13 billion that echo...

Buzz Kill
Wed, 24 Feb 2010 12:01:00 UTC
The launch of Buzz, a social-networking site, didn't go well. Is Google's online leadership vulnerable to a tag-team assault by Microsoft and Faceboo...

Rich City, Poor City
Mon, 22 Feb 2010 00:01:00 UTC
It’s no secret we live in a country of haves and have-nots. But did you know there’s a California city where nearly 29 percent of households earn mor...

Wealth Centers: A Methodology
Mon, 22 Feb 2010 00:01:00 UTC
Inside the Portfolio.com/bizjournals analysis of the nation's biggest 420 cities and how they break down by wealth.
Let the Unwinding Begin
Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:59:00 UTC
By raising the discount rate a notch, the Fed is encouraging banks to borrow money from the private sector, not the government. It's just a first ste...

An Act of Domestic Terrorism?
Thu, 18 Feb 2010 13:05:00 UTC
A small plane crashed today into an Austin, Texas, office building, and authorities believe it was an intentional act.
Slate - Today's Paper
The Pentagon releases detainee names to the Red Cross.
Sun, 23 Aug 2009 04:21:11 EST
The New York Times leads with the Pentagon's decision to release the names of detainees held at secret camps in Iraq and Afghanistan to the Red Cross...

Bankers upbeat about economic growth; CIA reportedly staged mock executions of detainee.
Sat, 22 Aug 2009 06:33:27 EST
All the papers lead with news that the battered global economy could finally be on the mend. The Washington Post and the New York Times both top thei...

Afghanistan doesn't bring out the vote.
Fri, 21 Aug 2009 07:11:22 EST
The New York Times and the Wall Street Journal's world-wide newsbox lead with, and everyone else fronts, Afghanistan's presidential election, which w...

CIA hired private contractors to take part in its al-Qaida assassination program.
Thu, 20 Aug 2009 06:35:30 EST
The New York Times leads with word that the CIA hired contractors from Blackwater USA to take part in an assassination program that targeted top al-Q...

Democrats go it alone on health care reform; Afghanistan prepares to go to the polls.
Wed, 19 Aug 2009 05:36:06 EST
The New York Times leads with news that in the face of stiffening Republican opposition to health care reform, Democrats look increasingly likely to ...

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