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Why the Elites Are Losing Sleep
Direct from Davos, the bubbles and risks that worry top bankers and CEOs
Rana Foroohar
Rana Foroohar is TIME's assistant managing editor in charge of economics and business.
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Davos Wisdom, 2013: Five Lessons from the Global Forum
One of the best descriptions of Davos I ever heard originated with my friend David Rothkopf, the CEO of Foreign Policy, whose book “Superclass” is perhaps the definitive chronicle of Davos man. “Davos,” he says, “is a …
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How Long Can the Stock Market Defy Economic Gravity?
As the pragmatic conservative economist Herbert Stein once said, “If something cannot go on forever, it won’t.” I’ve been thinking about that saying a lot in relation to today’s bull market and the complacency with which investors seem to view it.
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Should Businesses Pay Taxes on Foreign Earnings?
In 2013 businesses will push for new tax laws that allow them to keep all their earnings made overseas.
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Meet the Man Cracking Down on the LIBOR Scandal
Gary Gensler, the chairman of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, is now one of Wall Street’s toughest regulators.
Curious CapitalistFinancial Regulation
Banking’s Really Bad Day
Four years on from the financial crisis, new banking scandals still seem to break out every few months. But this week has been particularly bad for the industry. There was HSBC’s $1.9 billion settlement with the U.S. Justice Department over laundering money for Latin American drug cartels and helping countries like Iran, Cuba, Sudan, …
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How Bad Mergers Are Killing Innovation
Wall Street’s disproportionate sway over the U.S. economy has caused big problems in recent years, from the subprime crisis to high-frequency-trading debacles (just look at the new research out from the CTFC showing how speed traders rip off average Joes). But here’s one you may not have noticed: it’s crippling innovation.
To …
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The Widening Divide Between Wall Street and Washington
There is much that divides Wall Street and Washington. The cleanliness of the streets. Sartorial daring. And the view on whether or not we’ll fall off the fiscal cliff by year’s end.
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Money Talking: Who Decides How to Spend Sandy Relief Dollars?
What does the post Sandy reconstruction tell us about the big versus small government debate? And will it effect the fiscal cliff? To learn more, tune into this week’s episode of wnyc’s Money Talking with Time’s Rana Foroohar and the New York Time’s Joe Nocera.”
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Is There a Reckoning Coming Thanks to Quantitative Easing?
Bond trader PIMCO believes the Federal Reserve’s quantitative easing will have dire long-term effects on the ecoomy
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Who’s Better for Markets: Romney or Obama?
There’s a growing bit of conventional wisdom that says that if Mitt Romney is elected, the stock market will soar, and if President Obama gets another term, we’ll enter a bear market. Romney said as much himself to a group of …
Curious CapitalistEconomy
Money Talking: The Economic Legacy of Sandy
What will the economic legacy of Hurricane Sandy be? Will lower Manhattan remain the financial capital of the world, or will trading move to safer land? To hear this and more, tune into the latest episode of WNYC’s Money Talking with Time’s Rana Foroohar and the New York Time’s Joe Nocera.
