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When Shanghai sneezed, did the world's markets get the bird flu? Or was Tuesday's "correction" all the Maestro's fault?
By Andrew Leonard
February 28, 2007
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From Shanghai to New York to Tokyo: Where the selling will stop, nobody knows.
By Andrew Leonard
February 27, 2007
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The last time Wall Street shuddered like this, we knew the reason why: Sept. 11. This time, it's not so easy to figure out.
By Andrew Leonard
February 27, 2007
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Thailand's junta promised a new approach to economic management. The global financial community just gave it an F-.
By Andrew Leonard
December 19, 2006
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The Dow Jones Industrial Average: Irrelevant, wrong and biased
By Andrew Leonard
October 4, 2006
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Cry "vigilant" and let loose the dogs of Wall Street.
By Andrew Leonard
June 6, 2006
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The struggle over Social Security will be the defining political battle of Bush's second term. His game plan: The same one he used to successfully sell the Iraq war.
By Farhad Manjoo
February 2, 2005
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Election-predicting traders are betting not just on a narrow Republican victory, but a landslide. What's behind the Bush bubble?
By Farhad Manjoo
September 29, 2004
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When the market goes down, incumbent presidents tend to lose. It's down now, and headed further south.
By Carol Vinzant
September 29, 2004
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Salon's reporter puts his own money on the line, betting that an Iowa futures market holds the key to the White House.
By Farhad Manjoo
June 29, 2004
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Co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page believe they can thwart the greed of shortsighted Wall Street, but there's always a price to pay.
By Lawrence M. Fisher
May 6, 2004
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Complex financial instruments have made Wall Street incomprehensible to the average consumer -- and allowed "experts" to make fortunes. Two new books remind us that swindlers may have always been with us, but that today they are running the show.
By Andrew Leonard
May 1, 2003
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Does New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer really want to clean up the stock market, or just make himself look good?
By Damien Cave
October 10, 2002
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At their summer camp economic summit, Bushians find comfort by withdrawing from a confusing, complicated and unfriendly world.
By Arianna Huffington
August 16, 2002
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Judging by his performance to date, President Bush can use all the help he can get. Here are some expert suggestions.
By Salon Technology & Business staff
July 24, 2002
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The fall of the '90s bubble's icons shows just why Americans would be crazy to trust their retirement money to the stock market.
By Andrew Leonard
June 27, 2002
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A memoir by whiz kid turned dot-com refugee Stephan Paternot is as silly as the company he founded.
By Katharine Mieszkowski
August 22, 2001
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Two new books on the economy blast investment bankers for bias and warn that the financial system is out of anyone's control.
By Damien Cave
July 19, 2001
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Will an imploding stock market kill off plans to privatize our national safety net?
By Katharine Mieszkowski
April 3, 2001
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Day traders don't care if stocks are surging or crashing -- they plan to cash in, any which way.
By Damien Cave
December 8, 2000
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Iowa economists gambled that they could predict the presidential election. They lost.
By Dalton Conley
November 16, 2000
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Don't blame crazy investors for the stock market's wild ups and downs; they're just being sensible.
By Elizabeth Arens
October 31, 2000
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Despite upbeat economic readings, it may be a less cheery Christmas than most think.
By Paul Brandus
October 3, 2000
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In "Irrational Exuberance," Robert Shiller credits investors' folly with keeping the bull market on its feet.
By Thomas Scoville
May 2, 2000
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Wall Street has pummeled Bill Gates' stock price -- and the reasons are more psychological than financial.
By Steve Bodow
April 28, 2000