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We can mostly blame Old People for our deficit problems, not higher healthcare costs

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Blake Hounshell: Sony Playstations made by underage "interns" in China http://t.co/77haDgaU

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Ag bailouts, industrialization, and the rise of finance: Downton Abbey's economics

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Steve Randy Waldman: "Downtown Abbey Economics" by Somewhat Logically, http://t.co/J7ZKP8Jw ht @MarkThoma

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UK short-term interest rates are at 318-year lows

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Lack of copyright may have powered Germany's rapid 19th century industrialization

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Lack of copyright may have powered Germany's 19th century industrialization

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Jeff Jarvis: RT @bogosian: @jeffjarvis "No Copyright LawnThe Real Reason for Germany's Industrial Expansion?" http://t.co/CY8K3ry0

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A top executive "surrenders around 40 per cent of his salary to the Bureau of Internal Revenue"

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Business :: The Atlantic: Filthy Rich in 1955: How the Wealthiest Americans Lived 60 Years Ago

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NYC before AC, where wearing shorts instilled fear of arrest for indecent exposure

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Second Acts
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Meet the guy who helps hedge funders cope with prison

Felix
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"The view that 'we have to pay a price for past sins' is nearly always wrong"

Things We Don't Need
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2 Sources

New rifle allows uses "user to stream live video and audio to an iPad "

Alpha
11 hrs ago
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No one's particularly sure why the Nikkei dropped 7% overnight

Crisis Retro
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Ratings agencies are not rating RMBS high enough, so investors are ignoring them

EU Mess
5/23
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Greek youth unemployment is close to 75% in some areas

Primary Sources
5/22
1 Sources

The full Fed Minutes

Oxpeckers
5/22
9 Sources

Everyone secretly hates "Snow Fall"

New Normal
5/22
2 Sources

While life may feel more fluid, "America appears to be getting stuck in place"

It's Academic
5/22
2 Sources

Slick presentations make you overestimate how much you've learned

Bitcoin
5/22
1 Sources

There is a "disturbing cultishness to the Bitcoin community... everyone is as bullish as can be"

EU Mess
5/22

Italy considers job sharing between older and younger workers

Energy
5/22

Why the structure of electric utilities is broken

Alpha
5/22

Sony may actually be considering Daniel Loeb's spin-off plan

Servicey
5/22
4 Sources

Broker pitchbooks are exactly as sleazy as you expect them to be

JPMorgan
5/22

"The Too Big to Fail Subsidy is Negative Ten Billion Dollars, Says Goldman Sachs"

Corporate America's hoarding more and more cash, even as the economy improves

Rogoff: Fixing the eurozone crisis will require massive writedowns of debt

Dairy farmers are drowning in Greek yogurt's acidic byproduct

Old Normal

We can mostly blame Old People for our deficit problems, not higher healthcare costs

"Only 19 percent of people supported a tax cut"

When the US Army settled labor disputes

New York's coastline, a "catch basin for many of the city's poorest residents"

Vocational training: 15-year old interns working on assembly lines

Ag bailouts, industrialization, and the rise of finance: Downton Abbey's economics

UK short-term interest rates are at 318-year lows

Lack of copyright may have powered Germany's 19th century industrialization

A top executive "surrenders around 40 per cent of his salary to the Bureau of Internal Revenue"

NYC before AC, where wearing shorts instilled fear of arrest for indecent exposure

Meet the guy who helps hedge funders cope with prison

"The view that 'we have to pay a price for past sins' is nearly always wrong"

New rifle allows uses "user to stream live video and audio to an iPad "

No one's particularly sure why the Nikkei dropped 7% overnight

Ratings agencies are not rating RMBS high enough, so investors are ignoring them

Greek youth unemployment is close to 75% in some areas

The full Fed Minutes

Everyone secretly hates "Snow Fall"

While life may feel more fluid, "America appears to be getting stuck in place"

Slick presentations make you overestimate how much you've learned

There is a "disturbing cultishness to the Bitcoin community... everyone is as bullish as can be"

Italy considers job sharing between older and younger workers

Why the structure of electric utilities is broken

Sony may actually be considering Daniel Loeb's spin-off plan

Broker pitchbooks are exactly as sleazy as you expect them to be

How Jamie Dimon kept control during the shareholder challenge