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Snowden versus the dragons
One measure of our culture's disdain for whistle-blowers like Edward Snowden can be culled from the pages of a thesaurus.
Rate rigging costs more than money
In cash terms, the manipulation of supposedly objective reference rates and prices is a petty crime: relatively small gains for a few and microscopic losses for many. Ethically, though, the tolerance of untrustworthy behaviour makes the industry look particularly bad.
The price of ignoring climate change
Climate change endangers much of the world economy. Economists calculate that a 3.5°F rise in global temperature would reduce global gross domestic product by 1 percent
What does Apple really owe taxpayers? A lot, actually.
Even as Apple sizzles in the Senate hot seat for alleged tax evasion and finds itself the object of a Justice Department investigation into price-fixing ebooks, the company still enjoys a vast reservoir of good faith with the American people
Weiner: As American as political redemption
Anthony Weiner, now running for mayor of New York, is the latest in a long line of disgraced officials seeking not only absolution, but political resurrection from voters.
The real IRS scandal
Though the courts have ruled that a tax-exempt group’s political activity must be 'insubstantial,' lawyers have argued this means as much as 49 percent – and the IRS has gone along. Even that has been flagrantly violated.
Vetting the Syrian rebels, stock gyrations, and A-Rod’s return
Most of those pushing for providing arms and other aid to the Syrian rebels -- which the Obama administration announced last week it will now do -- have promised that the rebels could be “vetted” so that weapons and other assistance don’t end up in the hands of jihadists and other bad actors.MOST COMMENTED
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