| November 3 |
- Voting: The rational choice
- A political scientist pushes back against those who claim voting is irrational
- Wal-Mart surfs the meltdown
- The global economic crisis could give the retail colossus more freedom to operate as it pleases.
- The credit card grinch who stole Christmas
- The new president will face an unfamiliar problem: Lenders are discouraging Americans from pulling out their plastic.
- The dismal science of voter turnout
- What works best for getting out the vote? An economist says knocking on doors. Who will knock on the most doors this year? Guess.
- India's all-important Obama endorsement
- A financial newspaper backs the Democrat, from 11000 kilometers away
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| November 4 |
- The Korean-American hair Obama
- A portrait of the candidate in follicles
- Election Day rally?
- Do investors care who wins the U.S. presidential election?
- If the rest of the world could vote
- Foreigners can see themselves in the candidacy of Barack Obama. Maybe the U.S.A. really is "exceptional"
- Investors want change: Dow closes up 305
- Best Election Day rally in 24 years. Were traders watching the polls?
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| November 6 |
- Hiatus explanation
- A break for personal reasons
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| November 10 |
- My father's vote
- From Adlai Stevenson to Barack Obama, a life of writing, voting, disappointment and triumph.
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| November 11 |
- The Treasury secretary sweepstakes
- Lawrence Summers or Tim Geithner? Is there really any difference, besides style?
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| November 12 |
- As goes General Motors, so goes the world?
- Don't think bailout, think big! Restructuring the U.S. auto industry could be just the ticket for a wounded planet.
- Henry Paulson has a brand-new plan
- Forget about those "toxic" assets the government was going to buy. Today's agenda: Saving the consumer finance industry.
- Biofuels to the rescue
- In China a big grain harvest is pushing prices down and imperiling farmers' livelihoods. Time to prescribe some ethanol?
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| November 13 |
- Unemployment meteor threatens planet
- Just like in the movies, the U.S. is about to have a black president. And guess what? Disaster looms.
- The Wal-Mart trade deficit
- As the U.S. economy craters, Wal-Mart throws a lifeline to China.
- Birth control in a Frito?
- A new study finds infertility in mice fed genetically modified corn. Greenpeace is excited, while Monsanto rolls its eyes.
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| November 14 |
- For Obama and the economy, it's 60 votes or bust
- It's a strange way to run a country -- the Obama administration's success or failure may depend on two Republicans from Maine
- Michael "Liar's Poker" Lewis comes home
- He shined an embarrassing light on investment banking in the 1980s. This week, he does it again, with bells on
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| November 17 |
- Phil Gramm's legacy
- In an alternate universe, the former senator's deregulatory baggage could be much scarier.
- Where did all the wealth go?
- A YouTube trip down memory lane with one economic forecaster who got it all exactly right.
- The bad economics of stopping gay marriage
- Focus on the Family spends half a million in support of Proposition 8, then announces a big round of layoffs.
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| November 18 |
- The perils of cheap oil
- Enjoy your trips to the gas pump while you can. It won't be long until the energy crisis is back, bigger and better than ever.
- The global economy and Detroit
- One of the last bright spots of the U.S. economy -- export growth -- is dimming. So maybe it's not such a great idea to let domestic automakers fend for themselves.
- 137 pages of Wayne County foreclosures
- How long will the list get if the Big Three automakers collapse?
- The high priest of the Royal Hawaiian Mint
- Mint your own currency, or roll your own doobie? Choices, choices ...
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| November 19 |
- Why the South opposes a bailout for Detroit
- Republican senators like Alabama's Richard Shelby represent states with thriving, non-union, foreign-owned auto industries.
- Why does a solar power company want a piece of GM?
- Analysts are scoffing at SolarWorld's bid for Opel. But maybe the rest of us should be cheering
- A California earthquake shocks Detroit
- More bad news for automakers? California's Henry Waxman wins a preliminary vote to unseat Michigan's John Dingell as chair of the House Energy and Commerce Committee.
- Another day, another heart-stopping Dow plummet
- What could explain the latest market swoon? Let us count the ways
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| November 20 |
- Like a phoenix, Orange County rises again
- Out of the ashes of the subprime meltdown -- new life: An FDIC headquarters for managing the shutdown of failed financial institutions
- Sen. James Inhofe calls out Andrew Leonard
- The environmentalist's worst nightmare rails against the proposal that fuel economy standards be part of any auto bailout. And he blames me.
- Worst of all possible bailouts?
- A deal to keep automakers afloat might be in the offing, but appears to do little to solve economic problems that are getting worse by the second.
- Democratic leadership: No bailout for Detroit
- Call it TARP fallout: Reid, Pelosi demand a "viable plan" for survival before any rescue for the auto industry.
- As goes Detroit, so goes the Dow
- For the second consecutive day, stock indexes drop 5 percent. Is it a case of the no bailout blues?
- Cheap oil's victims
- For Hugo Chavez, Vladimir Putin, and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, sub-$50 oil is a disaster. But don't cheer too loud
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| November 21 |
- The Citigroup lesson: Big is not necessarily better
- As the financial giant staggers, can someone remind us again why repealing Glass-Steagall was a good idea?
- How to think positively about a crashing stock market
- Who cares if right now hedge fund investors want all their money back? Sooner or later, they'll change their minds.
- Obama makes the smart pick for Treasury: Dow goes wild
- The man who warned in 2006 about the potential downside to modern financial innovation gets the job of fixing a big, fat mess.
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| November 24 |
- On break
- HTWW is closed for Thanksgiving week
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