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		<title>Walmart&#8217;s Discounted Ethics</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 19:54:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Walmart became the world&#8217;s largest retailer by offering &#8220;everyday low prices&#8221; around the globe. Apparently, though, Walmart was offering something else too. The company has been plunged into a major scandal since a New York Times investigation revealed that Walmart&#8217;s Mexico subsidiary paid $24 million in bribes to local officials to sidestep regulations and obtain [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=business.time.com&#038;blog=31173800&#038;post=35614&#038;subd=timebusinessblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>President to Oil Speculators: Cut It Out</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2012 10:45:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rana Foroohar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[President is now trying to turn the tables on those who accuse him of supporting higher gas prices by going after commodities speculators, whom he blames for distorting markets, with tougher regulation.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=business.time.com&#038;blog=31173800&#038;post=35322&#038;subd=timebusinessblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Europe&#8217;s Economic Woes: That Sound You Hear Is the Euro Cracking</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Apr 2012 07:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rana Foroohar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A break-up in the Eurozone just got more real with the announcement of the short-list for the Wolfson Economics Prize. This years challenge question was: “If member states leave the Economic and Monetary Union, what is the best way for the economic process to be managed to provide the soundest foundation for the future growth and prosperity of the current membership?” <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=business.time.com&#038;blog=31173800&#038;post=33379&#038;subd=timebusinessblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Is the Wimpy Recovery Morphing into a Recession?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 10:45:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rana Foroohar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We’ve just begun coming to grips with the Wimpy Recovery. Are we actually in for another recession? That was the implication of a couple of economic reports I read this week, including one by ITG Investment Research, which tracked how the pace of this recovery (which was never great to begin with) has by some measures been slowing, most particularly among middle income consumers and industries producing for overseas markets. <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=business.time.com&#038;blog=31173800&#038;post=33251&#038;subd=timebusinessblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Schools That Mean Business</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Mar 2012 13:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rana Foroohar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A startlingly low percentage of U.S. college students—30% at four-year colleges and only about 25% at two-year colleges—finish their degrees. Some of that underachievement is money-related, but some of it is due to the fact that the U.S., unlike high-growth countries like Germany, doesn’t do much to connect educators with corporations doing the hiring.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=business.time.com&#038;blog=31173800&#038;post=32800&#038;subd=timebusinessblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Fall of Bo Xilai and the Future of Chinese Growth</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Mar 2012 13:31:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rana Foroohar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The fall of Bo Xilai, the former head of the Chinese Communist Party in the sprawling mid-Western city of Chongqing, is the stuff of movies. But it’s even more compelling when you begin to parse what it means politically and economically for the Middle Kingdom, and the world.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=business.time.com&#038;blog=31173800&#038;post=32763&#038;subd=timebusinessblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why We Need to Tackle the Skills Gap</title>
		<link>http://business.time.com/2012/03/26/why-we-need-to-tackle-the-skills-gap/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2012 16:31:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rana Foroohar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was struck this morning by two Op-Ed pieces: first, Larry Summers prescription for how to nurture the recovery in the FT, and Steven Rattner’s parsing of some new data on American inequality which found – surprise! – the rich got even richer in 2010. A whopping 93% of the additional $288 billion in income [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=business.time.com&#038;blog=31173800&#038;post=32536&#038;subd=timebusinessblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why Is Unemployment Falling So Fast When Growth Is So Slow?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Mar 2012 14:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rana Foroohar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The U.S. unemployment rate has fallen from 9% to about 8% in the last year, to the delight of everyone from job seekers to the Obama re-election team. But traditional economic theory tells us that shouldn’t have happened unless the economy was growing by double its current 2.5% rate. That’s the fascinating paradox presented in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=business.time.com&#038;blog=31173800&#038;post=31969&#038;subd=timebusinessblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Who Should Be the Next President of the World Bank?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Mar 2012 10:45:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rana Foroohar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Everyone is focused on the U.S. presidential elections this year, but there’s another presidential race that’s heating up – the race to be president of the World Bank. It’s a process that’s just as political, but much less transparent, since the choice ultimately rests with the White House, which tends to pick an American with clout, regardless of whether he (they’ve all been male) is the best person for the job.
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	<mediaCredit>Tomohiro Ohsumi / Bloomberg / Getty Images</mediaCredit><mediaCaption><![CDATA[Summers is one name being bandied about for the top job at the World Bank.]]></mediaCaption>
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		<title>Why A Stronger Economy Probably Won&#8217;t Translate Into A Raise &#8212; Yet</title>
		<link>http://business.time.com/2012/03/12/why-a-stronger-economy-probably-wont-translate-into-a-raise-yet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Mar 2012 13:25:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rana Foroohar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last Friday’s jobs numbers came in strong, particularly in important areas like manufacturing, but will salaries start to rise as unemployment falls?<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=business.time.com&#038;blog=31173800&#038;post=30818&#038;subd=timebusinessblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Jobs Numbers and the Economics of Emotion</title>
		<link>http://business.time.com/2012/03/09/jobs-numbers-and-the-economics-of-emotion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 2012 14:35:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rana Foroohar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The new jobs numbers show that the U.S. economy continues to improve. Does that mean we are going to finally start seeing a shift out of the era of fearful, volatile markets that we’ve been in for over three years now?<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=business.time.com&#038;blog=31173800&#038;post=30670&#038;subd=timebusinessblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Unemployment Paradox: Why the Conventional Wisdom About Job Seekers Is Wrong</title>
		<link>http://business.time.com/2012/03/02/the-unemployment-paradox-could-a-better-economy-make-jobless-rates-worse/</link>
		<comments>http://business.time.com/2012/03/02/the-unemployment-paradox-could-a-better-economy-make-jobless-rates-worse/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Mar 2012 11:45:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rana Foroohar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now that the economy is truly expanding once again, the conventional wisdom is that formerly discouraged workers will flood back into the labor market and reverse the decline in unemployment that we’ve seen over the last few months. But I suspect the conventional wisdom is wrong. Here's why. <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=business.time.com&#038;blog=31173800&#038;post=30069&#038;subd=timebusinessblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How Higher Fuel Prices Could Help American Manufacturing</title>
		<link>http://business.time.com/2012/02/29/how-higher-fuel-prices-could-help-american-manufacturing/</link>
		<comments>http://business.time.com/2012/02/29/how-higher-fuel-prices-could-help-american-manufacturing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Feb 2012 11:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rana Foroohar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The revival of Detroit has been a big story over the past couple of weeks, but the the comeback of American manufacturing should be attributed largely to higher shipping costs.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=business.time.com&#038;blog=31173800&#038;post=29875&#038;subd=timebusinessblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Economics of Marriage: Will &#8220;Putting A Ring On It&#8221; Cut Poverty?</title>
		<link>http://business.time.com/2012/02/28/the-economics-of-marriage-will-putting-a-ring-on-it-cut-poverty/</link>
		<comments>http://business.time.com/2012/02/28/the-economics-of-marriage-will-putting-a-ring-on-it-cut-poverty/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Feb 2012 16:15:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rana Foroohar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been thinking a lot about the economics of marriage, especially given that it’s such a huge issue in the Republican primaries. Rick Santorum has argued that to avoid poverty, all Americans need to do is finish high school and get married. But is it really that simple? To quote Beyonce, would poverty go [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=business.time.com&#038;blog=31173800&#038;post=29760&#038;subd=timebusinessblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why Lower Corporate Taxes Won&#8217;t Create More Jobs</title>
		<link>http://business.time.com/2012/02/23/will-a-lower-corporate-tax-rate-lure-jobs-back-to-america/</link>
		<comments>http://business.time.com/2012/02/23/will-a-lower-corporate-tax-rate-lure-jobs-back-to-america/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2012 10:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rana Foroohar</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Taxes]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, President Obama announced a long-awaited proposal to cut corporate taxes in America, which U.S. businesses complain are much too high by international standards. The proposed reform is intended to prevent companies from shifting operations and earnings to tax havens (paging Mitt Romney!) and instead encourage companies to bring them back into the U.S., where [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=business.time.com&#038;blog=31173800&#038;post=24882&#038;subd=timebusinessblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Will High Gas Prices Hurt Obama?</title>
		<link>http://business.time.com/2012/02/22/will-high-gas-prices-hurt-obama/</link>
		<comments>http://business.time.com/2012/02/22/will-high-gas-prices-hurt-obama/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 12:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rana Foroohar</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[2012 election]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gasoline prices]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Boehner]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fears over conflict in the Middle East are pushing gasoline towards the $4 per gallon mark. What will that mean for the presidential elections?<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=business.time.com&#038;blog=31173800&#038;post=24811&#038;subd=timebusinessblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Is America’s Economic Recovery Real?</title>
		<link>http://business.time.com/2012/02/21/is-americas-economic-recovery-real/</link>
		<comments>http://business.time.com/2012/02/21/is-americas-economic-recovery-real/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 12:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rana Foroohar</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jobs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[debt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economic recovery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[european debt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[eurozone crisis]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[That’s the $64,000 question, particularly for the U.S. presidential elections – if things keep improving, it’s only good news for Obama. The economy has been on a roll this year, with unemployment down, consumer and business confidence up, inflation falling, and monetary policy still loose. <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=business.time.com&#038;blog=31173800&#038;post=24729&#038;subd=timebusinessblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How Chinese Energy Politics Will Reshape the Middle East</title>
		<link>http://business.time.com/2012/02/17/how-chinese-energy-politics-will-reshape-the-middle-east/</link>
		<comments>http://business.time.com/2012/02/17/how-chinese-energy-politics-will-reshape-the-middle-east/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 07:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rana Foroohar</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy & Policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[china]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two of the biggest news stories of the week have been growing tensions between Iran and Israel, and Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping’s five-day tour of the U.S. to bolster relationships between the two nations, which have taken a hit in recent months due to trade and currency posturing. While there’s been plenty of commentary [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=business.time.com&#038;blog=31173800&#038;post=24478&#038;subd=timebusinessblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Leadership Lessons of Steve Jobs</title>
		<link>http://business.time.com/2012/02/16/the-leadership-lessons-of-steve-jobs/</link>
		<comments>http://business.time.com/2012/02/16/the-leadership-lessons-of-steve-jobs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2012 15:03:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rana Foroohar</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Apple]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is the celebrity CEO back? You might think so given the buzz in business schools these days over the leadership lessons to be learned from the late Steve Jobs. Walter Isaacson’s best selling biography of the Apple founder gave us a uniquely anthropological view of Jobs, who was both bully and genius. That has a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=business.time.com&#038;blog=31173800&#038;post=24421&#038;subd=timebusinessblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Three Economic Lessons Imported From Turkey</title>
		<link>http://business.time.com/2012/02/09/three-economic-lessons-imported-from-turkey/</link>
		<comments>http://business.time.com/2012/02/09/three-economic-lessons-imported-from-turkey/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 10:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rana Foroohar</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[decoupling]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just returned from a week in Istanbul, where I was reporting a piece on what Turkey’s burgeoning contemporary art scene tells us about where the country is headed politically (you can look for that in our upcoming style and design special in the magazine later this month). But I also learned a few economic [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=business.time.com&#038;blog=31173800&#038;post=23932&#038;subd=timebusinessblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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