Features By Scott Jagow
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Time to set the Postal Service free?
Neither debt, nor whopping losses nor employee pensions will keep the Post Office from delivering the mail. Well, actually they might. The Postal...
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One right after the other
We had an interesting discussion at our morning meeting about the relative nature of events -- specifically, the timing of the natural disasters in...
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Morning Reading
Good morning. Among this morning's items -- remembering the lessons of the dot-com crash, Earth's economic model is broken, what drives media...
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A secret war on Google?
The Wall Street Journal has an interesting piece about small Internet firms that have filed antitrust lawsuits against Google. It just so happens...
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Predict the future, win a prize
Bloomberg columnist John Dorfman is reviving a contest that gauges your ability to correctly predict economic conditions months from now. An...
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When reform doesn't equal change
This looks to be an important week for the fate of financial regulatory reform. A stand-alone Consumer Financial Protection Agency has virtually...
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Morning Reading
Good morning. Hope you had a good weekend. A few questions to start the week: Can government get banks lending? What do we need health insurers...
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No more interest-only loans
The government-controlled mortgage financier, Freddie Mac, said today it would stop buying "interest-only" loans. How common-sensical of them. ...
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Start a business, get a green card?
This week, two Senators introduced a bill that would reward foreign entrepreneurs for coming to this country and creating jobs. The Startup Visa...
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Citibank's dose of morality
I've been following an interesting story this week involving Citibank and a start-up company called Fabulis. It's a social networking site for gays...
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