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Our Company Is Doing So Well That You’re All Fired
"You all have done an amazing job ushering in a new era of success for this company. So amazing, in fact, that we have no choice but to let you all go."
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How Much Should a Sandwich Cost?
With inflation affecting the price of food, you might wonder if expensive sandwiches are worth it.
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How the Santa Maria Fire Could Mark a Turning Point for Brazil
Many of the dead in the fire were young science and engineering students--just the kind of experts the country needs to advance into the ranks of the First World. Has the time come for Brazil to make sure its legal system works to make prevent big and small abuses that may hamper its over-all economic future?
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Quinoa’s quagmire
A slanted post about the quinoa craze set off a cascade of reproachful media warnings last week, telling consumers that by eating the grain-like vegetable they are hurting people in the Andean region where most of it is grown.
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The Big Mac index
THE Big Mac index was invented by The Economist in 1986 as a lighthearted guide to whether currencies are at their “correct” level.
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Ireland cashes in on jelly beans
Booms, busts and bubbles are all jargon you might associate with today's troubled Irish economy. But now you can add "beans" to that list.
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India's rice revolution
John Vidal: In a village in India's poorest state, farmers are growing world record amounts of rice – with no GM or herbicide. Is this a solution to world food shortages?
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Old Photos Of Singapore Before It Became A Gleaming Metropolis
Singapore is one of the richest countries in the world. The city-state's 5 million people, crammed into an area barely larger than Chicago, generate the 6th-highest GDP in the world.
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Corporate Profits Are Eating the Economy
Here are two things that are true about the economy today. The Dow Jones industrial average is poised to set a new record as corporate profits stretch to all-time highs. And, there are still fewer working Americans today than there were before the start of the Great Recession.
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The Government Still Doesn't Want You to Know What Caused the Financial Crisis
A court decision keeps documents from a federal investigation secret.
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Rice prices skyrocket in North Korea
China's crackdown on North Korean smuggling has caused the price of rice to jump.
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The other Americas are booming: Latin America has its best prospects for a century
In the annals of geopolitical insults, few have been more sweeping than Richard Nixon's admonition to a young Donald Rumsfeld as he pondered his future career. "Latin America doesn't matter," he offered. "People don't give a damn about Latin America". He said it in 1971. Would anyone in Washington dare say it again?
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Why cyber currency Bitcoin is trading at an all-time high
The peer-to-peer digital currency Bitcoin is surging. Experts credit greater access, wider acceptance.
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Can This Taco Save America?
Taco Bell sold a million Doritos Locos Tacos a day last year—and hired 15,000 new people. Daniel Gross on how the chain’s most bizarre meal yet is upending American economics.
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Manila Wants to Be as Big as Vegas
The Philippines this weekend launched its bid to become Asia's third gambling hub with the opening of the Solaire, a $1.2 billion casino. Asia is battling the U.S. for supremacy in the global gambling market.
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World poverty is shrinking rapidly
UN development report uses nutrition and education as yardsticks as well as income.
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The American Dream' Is Now A Myth
This is one of the biggest problems the country faces.
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Mexico may drop out of top 10 tourist destinations
Mexico's top tourism official said the country may drop out of the world's top 10 tourist destinations, a spot it has held for years.
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100 trillion dollar banknote from Zimbabwe, on sale for 90 cents
In 2008 I mentioned that a one hundred billion dollar banknote was being auctioned on eBay with a high bid of AU$87. Today, you can buy a one hundred trillion dollar banknote on Amazon for US$0.90 (plus $4.94 shipping).
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Opinion: A hard landing for Cyprus
In dramatic fashion, Cyprus' bankruptcy was averted. Both banks and investors will have paid heavily for it. But so, too, has the EU, says DW's Bernd Riegert - and it might be paying for quite some time to come.
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