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  • Jun 14, 2018

    Amazon head tax reversed

    Last month the Seattle city council voted unanimously for a head tax – a set fee that bigger companies would have to pay for each of their employees. The tax was meant to raise funds to address homelessness and help create more affordable housing in a city where both have become problems. Then yesterday that same […]

  • Jun 14, 2018

    What the AT&T ruling means for mergers and acquisitions

    Yesterday … a judge cleared AT&T’s $85 billion acquisition of Time Warner. Today… Comcast bid $65 billion in cash for 21st Century Fox assets, which Disney is already trying to buy. Coincidence? I think not. The AT&T decision was closely watched for the implications it could have on other deals. So, more to come? Click […]

  • Jun 13, 2018

    Exploring the link between housing and health

    Sidney Bond (left) meets with peer recovery specialist Nathan Thomas at Baltimore's Health Care for the Homeless.
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    Kaiser joins other healthcare organizations investing in affordable housing.

  • Jun 13, 2018

    Dunkin’ CEO on what you’re most likely to buy with your doughnut

    Nigel Travis, president and CEO of Dunkin' Brands, the parent company of Dunkin' Donuts and Baskin-Robbins, celebrates the initial public offering with some friends outside the NASDAQ MarketSite on July 27, 2011, in New York City.
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    Nigel Travis talks about leading Dunkin' Brands, the company behind Dunkin' Donuts and Baskin Robbins.

  • Jun 13, 2018

    10 years after the housing crisis, thousands of zombie homes are still stuck in foreclosure limbo

    10 years after the housing crisis, thousands of zombie homes are still stuck in foreclosure limbo
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    Home values in much of the country have recovered, and in many places it's a seller's market. So long as there isn't a zombie on your block.

  • Jun 13, 2018

    Federal judge approves AT&T-Time Warner merger

    Federal judge approves AT&T-Time Warner merger
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    U.S. District Judge Richard Leon green-lit the merger without adding major conditions to the deal.

  • Jun 12, 2018

    Four things to know about the North Korea economy

    Portraits of late North Korean leaders Kim Il Sung, left, and Kim Jong Il on the April 25 Palace, the venue of the 7th Workers Party Congress in Pyongyang in 2016.
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    There’s a state-run economy, where the state employs people and sends everyone official rations, and the underground economy.

  • Jun 12, 2018

    How the energy boom shaped a small town in rural America

    A Consol Energy horizontal gas drilling rig explores the Marcellus Shale outside the town of Waynesburg, Pennsylvania, in 2012.
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    About a decade ago, some in this country saw fracking as the solution to decades of economic decline. But others were determined to stop it.

  • Jun 12, 2018

    Grocery industry looks to beef up its consumer offerings in response to Amazon

    It’s been a year since Amazon acquired Whole Foods, and the company announced today Prime members in 10 more states are eligible for special deals at the store. With Amazon getting deeper into the grocery business, competitors have had to up their digital game … and also improve delivery services. So what are they doing […]

  • Jun 12, 2018

    How U.S. trade policy risks isolating the country from traditional allies

    President Donald Trump backed out of a joint statement with the other six countries of the G-7 and lashed out at Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Twitter after Trudeau said Canada would push forward with retaliatory tariffs. A photo from the weekend kind of sums it all up: Trump’s seated, arms crossed, eyebrows raised, […]