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Widespread calls by political leaders to overhaul the health care system have hit the stocks, as has consternation over the feeble state of the indus read more »
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Consumers, long held up as the saviors of the American economy as it rose, are taking some of the blame for its fall. read more »
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Selling may be the reflexive response by shareholders who have watched the value of their assets decline, but investment advisers contend that they s read more »
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Reverse mortgages have boomed, but many consumers complain of unethical and high-pressure sales tactics. read more »
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When it comes to the rail system, it seems to be politics as usual.
Rep. Corrine Brown, a Democrat from Florida, is trying to prevent The Childr read more »
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From our colleagues at City Room:
Hundreds of cafeteria and other food-service workers rallied in Lower Manhattan on Wednesday afternoon for hig read more »
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From our colleagues at Bits:
A Swiss bank on Wednesday moved to withdraw a lawsuit that it had filed against a Web site that it claimed had disp read more »
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As an affiliate of the Carlyle Group struggled Thursday with missed margin calls, DealBook presents this nomination for the quote of the day: “ read more »
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Another highly placed Wall Street banker is jumping to a new job.
Louis Friedman, Bear Stearns’s vice chairman of investment banking and g read more »
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How does one say “never mind” in Arabic?
The head of Dubai International Capital said on Tuesday that despite raising $20 billion fr read more »
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Don’t despair, Bill Gates: You may have lost your position atop Forbes’s annual billionaires list, but you are No. 1 on another ranking t read more »
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His bid for the presidency didn’t pan out, but financially speaking, the past eight years or so have apparently been good ones for Al Gore.
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Lehman Brothers suspended two London-based equity traders after some of their trades were picked up by the bank’s internal control system, a sp read more »
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The Sarbanes-Oxley Act has many detractors. They claim that the Act is an over-burdensome piece of regulation, one that has imposed costly and unneed read more »
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“Paradise Park” has an appealing, absurdist surface, yet beneath the giddiness there is something that’s rare in Charles Mee’s work: the pull of genu read more »
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Chris Robinson and the Black Crowes were at the Fillmore to play “Warpaint” straight through: a mixed blessing for the fans, who got to hear, or were read more »
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The fruits of Julia Meltzer and David Thorne's project in Damascus will be on view in three video works at the Whitney Museum of American Art’s bienn read more »
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Embedded in the plodding forensics vérité series “Crime 360” is subliminal confirmation of a growing societal fear that our reliance on technology is read more »
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Paul Taylor's current season at City Center is advertised as “The Dream Season,” principally because dreams are the subject of the two new works he i read more »
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