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  • Jul 14, 2009

    Morning Reading

    President Obama's car guy is out. Goldman Sachs is rich again. A woman Tweets through a bank robbery. And you can buy Businessweek for a dollar….

  • Like every industry, the publishing business is having a tough time. But lately, coming to its rescue, are some of the biggest names in literature…

  • Jul 13, 2009

    Test case for TBTF

    If you believe what lender CIT is saying, the bank is another Lehman Brothers. It's Too Big To Fail, and it's in deep trouble. But this time, the…

  • The gloves are off in the debate over health care. In one corner, you have Wal-Mart. In the other corner, just about every other retailer in…

  • Jul 13, 2009

    Morning Reading

    One bank is back to printing money. Another is trying to get out of paying the taxpayers back. And another is suing itself. Just another Monday…

  • My weekly podcast, After the Bell, is now available. As I looked through the stories of the week, my head was spinning with numbers. Let's try to…

  • This has nothing to do with a rapper or the decline of Western journalism. It's the name of the latest project from NPR's Alex Chadwick. The…

  • One of the most controversial loans of the mortgage boom was the no-documentation, or stated income loan. Just like the name suggests, borrowers…

  • Jul 10, 2009

    Morning Reading

    The new GM was born today, and at a press conference (live-blogged at NPR), CEO Fritz Henderson said the company's priorities will be customers,…

  • This phone-tapping scandal in Britain raises many questions, not only about British tabloids and the way some of them might operate, but larger…