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  • The Jobs Czar: General Electric's Jeffrey Immelt

    The Jobs Czar: General Electric's Jeffrey Immelt

    October 9, 2011 | 12:15 PM PDT

    Can General Electric Chairman Jeffrey Immelt, whose company has been racking up big profits overseas, help create jobs in America? Lesley Stahl interviews the man President Obama chose to lead the crucial quest for more American jobs.

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  • Wall Street: The speed traders

    Wall Street: The speed traders

    June 5, 2011 | 5:00 PM PDT

    Steve Kroft gets a rare look inside the secretive world "high-frequency trading," a controversial technique the SEC is scrutinizing in which computers can make thousands of stock trades in less than a second.

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  • The new tax havens

    The new tax havens

    March 27, 2011 | 4:15 PM PDT

    American companies are finding new overseas tax havens to legally protect some of their profits from the U.S. tax rate of 35 percent, among the highest in the world. Lesley Stahl reports.

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  • Mark Zuckerberg & Facebook, Part 2

    Mark Zuckerberg & Facebook, Part 2

    December 5, 2010 | 2:29 PM PST

    Mark Zuckerberg, the 26-yr.-old founder and CEO of mega-social media site Facebook, talks to Lesley Stahl about his life and his business, now worth an estimated $35 billion.

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  • Mark Zuckerberg & Facebook, Part 1

    Mark Zuckerberg & Facebook, Part 1

    December 5, 2010 | 5:02 PM PST

    Mark Zuckerberg, the 26-yr.-old founder and CEO of mega-social media site Facebook, talks to Lesley Stahl about his life and his business, now worth an estimated $35 billion.

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  • Wall Street: The Speed Traders

    Wall Street: The Speed Traders

    October 10, 2010 | 5:45 PM PDT

    Steve Kroft gets a rare look inside the secretive world of "high-frequency trading," a controversial technique the SEC is scrutinizing in which computers can make thousands of stock trades in less than a second

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  • Marc Dreier: The Swindler

    Marc Dreier: The Swindler

    September 19, 2010 | 5:00 PM PDT

    To understand how Bernard Madoff could have done what he did, listen to so-called "mini-Madoff" Ponzi schemer Marc Dreier tell Steve Kroft in his first television interview how he scammed $400 million.

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  • Prokhorov: The Russian Is Coming

    Prokhorov: The Russian Is Coming

    August 22, 2010 | 5:00 PM PDT

    Mikhail Prokhorov, perhaps Russia's richest man, discusses his purchase of the N.J. Nets basketball team, his vast wealth and the unusual way he made most of his money in his first American television interview. Steve Kroft reports.

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  • Banking: A Crack In the Swiss Vault

    Banking: A Crack In the Swiss Vault

    August 15, 2010 | 5:00 PM PDT

    Swiss bank accounts offered people, including U.S. tax cheats, a safe place to hide money. But the largest Swiss bank has released formerly sacrosanct data on its U.S. customers because of tips provided by whistleblower Bradley Birkenfeld, who tells Steve Kroft some of the secrets Swiss bankers never tell.

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  • The Liquidator

    The Liquidator

    June 20, 2010 | 5:00 PM PDT

    The man in charge of recovering assets from Ponzi scheme king Bernard Madoff says there is about $18 billion still out there that he hopes to recover for victims of the scam. But it won't be easy. Morley Safer reports.

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