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Welcome to America, the World's Scariest Emerging MarketFrom Desmond Lachman, former Deputy Director of the IMF's Policy & Review Department, writing in the WaPo:Over the past year, I've been getting Russia flashbacks as I witness the AIG debacle...
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After graduating from Columbia last May, I spent the summer at the Stanford Graduate School of Business in their Summer Institute for General Management (which I HIGHLY recommend). The experience changed how I thought about the news industry,...
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Ok, so this has absolutely nothing to do with journalism, economics or technology, but i thought I'd share nonetheless…Today I stopped a thief. Here's how I recounted the episode on Facebook:ok, trying to remember the details…was checking out a hot...
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From NYT's Richard Perez-Peña: But now, some economists and newspaper executives say it is only a matter of time — and probably not much time at that — before some major American city is left with no prominent local newspaper at all.“In 2009 and 2010, all...
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Michael Arrington, founder of TechCrunch, published a story about a conversation he had with "a big music label executive" today:I asked the usual question: Why are you guys so damned clueless?The response he got was pretty damn interesting. It’s all...
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The economy, she is a changing, or so say our friends at The New York Times:The unemployment rate surged to 8.1 percent, from 7.6 percent in January, its highest level in a quarter-century. In key industries — manufacturing, financial services and retail —...
