What’s Killing America’s Global Competitiveness?
Posted: 9/25/2012 5:53:00 PM
A report released this month by the World Economic Forum questions one of the fundamental assumptions of the last 100 years: that a healthy economy helps improve the lives and well-being of the pe…
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The Episcopal Church, Bain Capital and Heavenly Returns
Posted: 8/31/2012 5:58:00 PM
During his acceptance speech in Tampa Thursday night, Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney said that he was risk-averse during the early years of establishing his private equity firm, Bain …
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A Solid Gold Fix for the National Debt
Posted: 6/28/2011 12:00:00 AM
How does America, looking up from the bottom of a $14.3 trillion sinkhole, claw its way out of debt? For starters, says perennial Wall Street bear James Grant, go back to the gold standard.
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A Year after the Flash Crash: It Can Happen Again
Posted: 5/6/2011 9:13:00 AM
On the first anniversary of the Flash Crash, the huge single day disruption and lightning-quick recovery that rattled the stock market, we still don’t know exactly what caused it or whether enough…
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Islamic Bonds: Return to Fiscal Responsibility
Posted: 4/5/2011 11:23:00 AM
Now might not be the best time to sell Americans on the benefits of Islamic finance. American military forces are bogged down in three Muslim countries and Congress is holding hearings on the pote…
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