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The Shutdown Is Over But Could Still Ruin Holiday Shopping
The lingering effects of the federal shutdown, combined with a general lack of confidence in both the economy and the ability of our nation’s political leaders to avoid gridlock, means that retailers are looking at a …
8 Questions for the Forgotten Nobel Laureate
The media coverage of this year’s Nobel Prize in economics was dominated by the concept of the “efficient market hypothesis,” which is narrowly defined as the idea that markets will quickly assimilate all public information about …
How Globalization Is Altering All Our Minds
A dozen years ago, Peter Drucker predicted what multinational corporations of the future would look like, saying that they were going “to be held together and controlled by strategy” rather than defined by who owned …
Most Successful Tech Company on Earth Still Kinda Bummed No-Name Bloggers Didn’t Love the Original iPad
Tim Cook, Apple’s chief executive, got a snicker from the audience during his company’s latest iPad unveiling by dredging up old predictions that the tablet would flop. Some people didn’t see a need for the device when it …
I’ll Have a Venti Iced Tea, Please
Starbucks to open tea bars
Airbus May Be Making the World’s Fattest, Most Expensive Turkey
When passengers on Air France’s Flight 006 land at New York City’s Kennedy Airport from Paris on Thanksgiving Day they may also have the distinction of arriving on one of the biggest turkeys in aviation history, the Airbus …
Warren Buffett Is Not Surprised By Obamacare’s Technical Problems
I sat down today with a buffet of Buffetts—Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett, his son Howard G. Buffett and his grandson Howard W. Buffett—to talk about Howard G.’s new book 40 Chances: Finding Hope in a Hungry World. …
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Foroohar: America’s Real Economic Crisis Is Flat Wages
Now that we have a working government, we also have a September jobs report. But I almost wish we didn’t. While everyone was expecting October’s report, which will reflect the government shutdown and debt-ceiling wrangling, …
Twitter Lands Credit Line Ahead of IPO
Funds could be used for acquisitions, analysts say
Apple Announces Thinner and Lighter iPad Air, iPad Mini with Retina Display
The new full-sized iPad weighs just one pound. The revamped Mini gets a price bump.