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Rational Irrationality

Wall Street After Fabulous Fabby John Cassidy

Fabrice Tourre is the only banker to be found liable of any charges having to do with the financial crisis. Now, for most of the industry, it’s back to business as usual…
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ILLUSTRATION: CHRISTOPH NIEMANN
The Financial Page

Breadwinners in a Big Mac Economyby James Surowiecki

The reason low-wage work has become a political issue is not that the jobs have changed. It’s that the people doing the jobs have…
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News Desk

The Value of a Newspaperby Ian Crouch

John Henry paid seventy million dollars for the Boston Globe. It’s a staggeringly low price, but it remains to be seen if it was a good deal—for Henry or for the paper…

Idea of the Week

A month of Citi Bike, in motion.

The Number

ILLUSTRATION: LUKE SHUMAN
Dark nights in Detroit.
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