Energy
The oil price-fixing scandal has landed in the U.S.
preview.reuters.com
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Right On
Fannie Mae "is regaining its swagger even as lawmakers plot its demise"
bloomberg.com
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Politicking
Wall Street lobbyists frequently help draft financial legislation
dealbook.nytimes.com
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Abenomics
The deeper agenda behind Abenomics
preview.reuters.com
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Your Retirement Plans
Automatic enrollment is a better retirement strategy than tax breaks
businessweek.com
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David Merkel:
Wrong: To Boost Retirement Savings, Stop Giving Tax Breaks on 401(k)s http://t.co/JnZPEDvn7W "Nudges" eventually fail, tax breaks don't $$
Your Retirement Plans
57% of American workers have less than $25,000 in retirement savings
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Your Retirement Plans
"Work is wage slavery and...retirement is freedom"
stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com
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The legal and moral justification of cutting Americans' pensions
Your Retirement Plans
30 years after the 401(k) was created, Americans aren't prepared to manage their money
washingtonpost.com
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Your Retirement Plans
State pensions "free to invest how they like and all the risk is born by the taxpayer"
economist.com
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Reminder: Corporate pensions are at record levels of crappyness too
The River
Deals
5/24
Yahoo joins the gaggle of bidders for Hulu
EU Mess
5/24
3 Sources
IMF searches soul, blames Europe
UGH
5/24
6 Sources
"It's Rich Kids of Instagram, concentrated in one Canadian"
Bubbly
5/24
2 Sources
Private equity firms and hedge funds are recruiting first-year analysts again
Politicking
5/24
The politicians who hate food stamps but love agricultural subsidies
Housing
5/24
New home sales are up and "will probably continue to increase for some time"
Beer
5/24
1 Sources
Fracking threatens to destroy the German beer industry
Second Acts
5/23
Meet the guy who helps hedge funders cope with prison
Felix
5/23
7 Sources
"The view that 'we have to pay a price for past sins' is nearly always wrong"
Things We Don't Need
5/23
2 Sources
New rifle allows uses "user to stream live video and audio to an iPad "
TBTF
5/23
3 Sources
"The Too Big to Fail Subsidy is Negative Ten Billion Dollars, Says Goldman Sachs"
Hoarders
5/23
3 Sources
Corporate America's hoarding more and more cash, even as the economy improves
Alpha
5/23
1 Sources
No one's particularly sure why the Nikkei dropped 7% overnight
EU Mess
5/23
5 Sources
Rogoff: Fixing the eurozone crisis will require massive writedowns of debt
Crisis Retro
5/23
Ratings agencies are not rating RMBS high enough, so investors are ignoring them
Yikes
5/23
11 Sources
Dairy farmers are drowning in Greek yogurt's acidic byproduct
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