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On Dec. 9, 2014, the Supreme Court decided the case of Integrity Staffing Solutions, Inc. v. Busk. It involved hourly-paid Amazon.com warehouse workers who retrieve products from shelves and package them for delivery to customers.
Read More »Dr. Tyler Cymet: 2014’s top 10 health care stories
Health care has so much going on that it is hard to choose just 10 stories that had the most impact. Health care providers are learning new ways to do everything that we do. The transitions in health care are ...
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Read More »Jonathan Bernstein: Ben Carson another Bachmann?
No one knows how the rabble-rousing Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson will do in the Iowa caucuses and early primary states.
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Read More »Stephen Carter: Don’t condemn Sony’s decision
The decision by Sony Pictures to cancel the Christmas Day opening of “The Interview,” a raunchy comedy in which two American journalists try to assassinate North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, has brought the company in for some hard knocks.
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Read More »Barry Ritholtz: Better roads worth 12 cents a gallon?
In the middle of the last century, the U.S. started building the Interstate Highway System. It's now named after President Dwight Eisenhower, who shepherded its passage through Congress in 1956.
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Read More »Rod Staatz: Why credit unions are booming
Americans are discovering the benefits of credit union membership at an unprecedented rate -- more than 100 million Americans are now credit union members. That’s one out of every three Americans.
Read More »Noah Smith: Why Wall Street hate for Fed’s low rates?
The Federal Reserve is hurting savers by keeping interest rates low. Low rates cause inflation. Low rates cause financial instability.
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Read More »Barry Ritholtz: Forecasts of holiday sales worthless
Forget August. The real silly season is upon us. As evidence, I present the forecast of a 13 percent increase in holiday sales made by Forrester Research, as cited in The New York Times this week. Color me skeptical.
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Read More »Noah Feldman: Should companies get away with lies they tell?
Is it a lie if you don’t know what you’re saying isn’t true? This eternal philosophical question, well-known to 6-year-olds everywhere, is now before the U.S. Supreme Court — and the stakes are hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of ...
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Read More »Bloomberg View: NASA is lost in space
Accidents happen. That's especially true of space flight, one of humankind's more complicated and dangerous endeavors, and it's a truth that was spectacularly illustrated this week at Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia, where a rocket blew up ferrying supplies to the International Space Station.
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