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Obama Turns a Deaf Ear to Voter Concerns

By LIZ PEEK | May 23, 2012

Investors’ Fear: End of the World as We Know It

By SUZANNE McGEE | May 23, 2012

Why Have Politicians Neglected the Unemployed?

By Mark Thoma | May 22, 2012

Did Morgan Stanley Botch the Facebook IPO?

By SUZANNE McGEE | May 22, 2012

BRUCE BARTLETT

BRUCE BARTLETT previously wrote for Forbes and Creators Syndicate. With a focus on politics and economics, his work is informed by years in government, including as staff director of the Joint Economic Committee of Congress and senior policy analyst in the Reagan White House. He is the author of seven books.
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Merrill Goozner

Merrill Goozner spent 25 years as a foreign correspondent, economics writer and investigative business reporter for the Chicago Tribune and other publications. He is the author of the 2004 book, The $800 Million Pill: The Truth Behind the Cost of New Drugs.
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SUZANNE McGEE

SUZANNE McGEE
Suzanne McGee spent more than 13 years as a staff reporter for The Wall Street Journal in Toronto, New York, and London. After leaving the Journal in 2002, she became a freelance contributor to more than a dozen business publications, including Barron's, The Financial Times, Institutional Investor, and INC. …
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EDWARD MORRISSEY

EDWARD MORRISSEY
has been providing political analysis as a blogger, columnist, and radio host since 2003. He now writes at Hot Air as senior editor and correspondent and also hosts a daily online talk show. His radio show is on Minnesota’s AM 1280 The Patriot every Saturday afternoon.

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LIZ PEEK

LIZ PEEK spent over 20 years on Wall Street, most of them as a top-ranked research analyst, and managed Wertheim & Company's entrance into international research and the market for U.S. equities in Japan. She has written for Trends, FoxNews.com and other publications.
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YUVAL ROSENBERG

YUVAL ROSENBERG
Yuval Rosenberg is a journalist based in New York. A former editor at WNYC.org, Fortune.com and Newsweek.com, he now covers business, the economy, technology, and Wall Street. His writing has appeared in publications including BusinessWeek, CNNMoney.com, Fast Company, Fortune, Newsweek, and more.…
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PATRICK SMITH

PATRICK SMITH has been a correspondent, commentator, editor, and critic for more than thirty years, primarily for the International Herald Tribune and The New Yorker. He is now writing his fifth book and also lectures in journalism and media studies.
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Mark Thoma

Mark Thoma
is a macroeconomist and time-series econometrician at the University of Oregon. His research focuses on how monetary policy affects the economy, and he has also worked on political business cycle models. Mark is currently a fellow at The Century Foundation.

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How Facebook Can Close the Generation Gap

May 18, 2012

For years, social media was seen as a new toy for the young and hip. But as Facebook’s record-setting IPO has shown, social media is a cultural and economic behemoth. For young and old alike, social is the thing. And with a gl…

Goozner

Big Pharma’s Sinking Business Model

May 11, 2012

Much has been written about the travails of the pharmaceutical industry. Generic competition is reducing profitability as leading blockbuster drugs like Pfizer’s Lipitor lose patent protection. Biotech generic competition is o…

Hodin

Reframe the 'Growth vs. Austerity' Debate

May 11, 2012

From Athens, Greece, to Madison, Wisconsin, the common theme today is said to be “austerity versus growth.” In reality, we’re hearing little about what’s driving the growth side and a great deal about the disasters to come fro…

ROSENBERG

The 10 Best and Worst States for Small Business

May 09, 2012

The state best known for growing spuds may be fertile ground for small businesses too. Idaho ranks first, along with Texas, in a new survey that of entrepreneurs that sought to identify the states that are most – or least – fr…

Hodin

Class of 2012: Don't Even Think About Retiring at 60

May 03, 2012

Congratulations, Class of 2012! The world is your oyster! Then again, maybe not. The Wall Street Journal suggests that you should neither “try to be great” nor “use your prodigious talents to mess things up.” And The New…