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US reaches $95.5M settlement in for-profit education case - Yahoo Finance "A Pennsylvania company that enrolls more than 100,000 stud...

How Pfizer has shifted U.S. profits overseas for years - Yahoo Finance "Pfizer has used transactions between companies within its gro...

How companies prey on your weaknesses: Robert Shiller  It's no secret we do things we know we shouldn't. We overeat, gamble away o...

Turing increases price of Darapim to 750 per pill - Business Insider A biotech company ...

It looks like banks might have rigged another huge market - Yahoo Finance It looks like banks might have rigged another huge market The mar...

The richest Americans are winning the economic recovery - Yahoo Finance ...

More Than Half Of American Schoolchildren Now Live In Poverty "Overall, 51 percent of U.S. schoolchildren came from low-income househ...

Most Americans are one paycheck away from the street - MarketWatch "Approximately 62% of Americans have no emergency savings for thing...

Is Global Poverty Falling? Not in Absolute Terms  - WSJ While there has been progress in reducing the number of people living below the po...

Did Goldman Sachs rig the commodities markets? - Nov. 20, 2014 "Goldman Sachs has been trying to distance itself from the "vampir...

The following is from Economist : “Yet some now fear that a new era of automation enabled by ever more powerful and capable computer...

Slump in mortgage rates fails to rally home buyers - Yahoo Finance More proof that low mortgage rates are not the key to home ownership: R...

Libyan Investment Authority Goldman Sachs - Business Insider The Libyan Investment Authority, a government-managed sovereign wealth fund, ...

Secret Goldman Sachs tapes show regulators still respect bankers too much - The Washington Post The problem with Wall Street's cops is ...

Americans Continue to Say a Third Political Party Is Needed - Gallup A majority of U.S. adults, 58%, say a third U.S. political party is n...

The Recovery That Left Out Almost Everybody - WSJ -Yahoo Finance According to a Pew Research Center report released this month, only 21% r...

How to shelter hundreds of millions in an IRA account - MarketWatch The GAO report shows that the top 1% have saved $1 trillion in their ...

Census: Nearly 1 in 5 Children in U.S. in Poverty | Juvenile Justice Information Exchange Nearly one in five children in the United States ...

America's Poor, Deeper in Debt Than Ever - Bloomberg View : Fresh data from the Federal Reserve shows that millions of the poorest fami...

Fed Says Growth Lifts the Affluent, Leaving Behind Everyone Else - NYTimes.com "Economic growth since the Great Recession has improv...