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Don’t overreact to JPMorgan’s loss

Financial Times

Let’s stipulate that the $2bn trading loss at JPMorgan resulted from a strategy that was, in the words of chief executive Jamie Dimon “flawed, complex, poorly reviewed, poorly executed and poorly monitored”.

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The Facebook IPO is no place for an amateur

Financial Times

On the face of it, this is good news for the little man. The most closely watched initial public offering in years – that of social media group Facebook – will reportedly include a dollop of shares earmarked for small investors.

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The 2012 contenders fiddle while Medicare burns

Financial Times

Even as Mitt Romney was effectively crowned as the Republican party’s nominee to hallenge Barack Obama in the 2012 presidential elections, we received a grim reminder of the deteriorating condition of America’s two bedrock social welfare programmes. It arrived on Monday in the form of non-partisan reports from the trustees of Social Security and Medicare – and what worrisome news it was.

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The New York Times: Biden’s Get-Tough-on-China Tariffs May Backfire

The tide of globalization is receding, at least from American shores. Two successive presidents have...

The New York Times: What Trump Would Do To Our Economy

Originally published in The New York Times. Much to fear about another Donald Trump presidency: ...

The New York Times: America’s Broken Immigration System, In One Chart

The immigration problem Congress faces is large and complex. Let’s break it down. Between Octob...

More than Words: 10 Charts That Defined 2023

Some years are defined by a single event or person — a pandemic, a recession, an insurrection — ...

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