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For the first time in a generation, Social Security recipients will not get a cost-of-living increase in their monthly checks — not next year nor the year after.
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Irwin Kellner: ‘Diet COLA’ for Social Security recipients
Angela Merkel is not the first name you think of when you ponder the wellspring of the next market bubble. But in a few years, her victory in the German elections will be seen as the first snowflake in the avalanche of the next boom and bust
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David Weidner’s Writing on the Wall: Merkel win: Wellspring for the next bubble
In Chapter 15 of his memoirs, Todd Harrison exchanges big money with the Cramer Berkowitz fund for personal fulfillment and gets Minyanville off the ground.
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Todd Harrison’s Memoirs of a Minyan: Exchanging big money for personal fulfillment
It wasn’t simply that Jay Leno’s debut show Monday night was dull. Or that it wasn’t funny. What’s striking is the overall crumminess of the whole thing.
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Jon Friedman’s Media Web: Leno’s shoddy debut augurs badly for NBC
Premiums for families’ employer-sponsored health insurance rose 5% on average this year, according to a new survey.
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Vital Signs: Family health premiums rise 5% in 2009: survey
Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke declared Tuesday that the long, painful recession gripping the global economy is “likely over,” But that’s cold comfort to the airline industry.
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MarketWatch First Take: Airlines’ deepening losses
When everyone is certain something is going to happen a decade from now, you can be sure that it won’t. And that goes for the national debt too.
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Irwin Kellner: Any 10-year forecast is highly suspicious
Let’s follow this lead … imagine Paul Krugman meets with Dr.
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Paul B. Farrell: Paul Krugman, meet Dr. Sigmund Freud
The defection of a key executive from Intel Corp. to EMC Corp
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Therese Poletti’s Tech Tales: Ultimate Cage Fighting for Intel, EMC posts
There are no easy answers even though the media, the government and Wall Street itself have been trying to wring lessons from the biggest bankruptcy in U.S.
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David Weidner’s Writing on the Wall: Searching for clues a year after Lehman’s fall
