As students face mounting debt, many professors continue to publish their work through a subsidized university press.
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Initial Public Offering (and Facebook) Blues
Congress thinks Facebook’s IPO proves the system is broken. In fact, it may be a sign that the system still works.
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How Am I Doing? I Really, Really Want To Know
Businesses are burying us in customer satisfaction surveys. They don’t seem to care.
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Turning A Sacred Cow Into Hamburger
Even a useless cow can lumber along if it’s sacred. The itemized deduction for home mortgage interest would be better as hamburger.
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An Olympic Remembrance
Olympic organizers refuse to do the right thing by remembering those who were murdered at the Munich games, but NBC might.
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A Long-Ago Actress And A ‘Modern Family’
A “Modern Family” spat draws on the legacy of an actress who rebelled against old Hollywood’s studio system.
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Someone Should Tell Fed Staff About Capitalism
Yet another proposal to improve money market funds would just render them useless. Has the Fed staff heard of capitalism?
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A Boardroom Coup
Faster than you can say “bait and switch,” Duke Energy’s board dumped an outsider CEO. Should anyone but the shareholders care?
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They Want To See My Taxes, Too
Strangers today feel comfortable asking about anybody’s tax returns. What happened to minding one’s own business?
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