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Katrina recovery mixed for Gulf Coast fishing industry
USA Today - 23 Aug 2015 07:26
The seafood industry faced challenges beyond storm.
How to Go to Bed Tonight Happier (And Feeling Richer)
inc - 23 Aug 2015 19:20
What Made Steve Jobs, Richard Branson & Charles Schwab Feel Better is Guaranteed to Work For You Too
The pot industry is being cannibalized by startups
Business Insider - 23 Aug 2015 16:07
The pot industry is not just for growers anymore. Tech entrepreneurs with high ambitions are finding money in applying startup solutions to the budding industry. There’s already the on-demand delivery startups like Mea...
Investments heat up online news sector
Business Insider - 23 Aug 2015 06:28
Washington
Bernie Sanders takes aim at 'greedy' Koch brothers
Business Insider - 23 Aug 2015 05:42
NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) -- Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders is making the billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch the face of a "corrupted" political and economic system that the Vermont senator wan...
Scientists found something surprising about the real paleo diet
Business Insider - 24 Aug 2015 01:24
It turns out that instead of just steak — rare as possible, please — the real paleo diet may have been more of a steak-and-potatoes affair. In a paper in the September issue of The Quarterly Review of Biology, the au...
From Financiers To Fashionistas: 3 Wall Street Pros Harbor Couture Aspirations
Forbes - 23 Aug 2015 18:41
By day, Emily Slocum, Naj Alavi and Cynthia Williams might look like any other Wall Streeters riding the 4-train to work. But on evenings and weekends all three swap high finance for high fashion to pursue their entrepre...
John Oliver Should Not Blame IRS For Televangelist Tax Abuse
Forbes - 23 Aug 2015 18:23
Rather than attending services at the Church or Our Lady of Perpetual Exemption this Sunday morning, I'm working on my blog. John Oliver recently founded COLPE to illustrate how much churches can get away with. ...
Ashley Madison Faces $578 Million Class Action Lawsuit
Time - 23 Aug 2015 17:56
Two Canadian firms filed the suit on Thursday
Student loan debt: America's next big crisis
USA Today - 23 Aug 2015 16:48
Just about every candidate has a "plan" to handle student loan debt. But these supposed solutions are hype, really.
Business Not As Usual: The Millennial Social Entrepreneur
Forbes - 23 Aug 2015 16:48
There's a new kind of entrepreneur permeating the American landscape. Social entrepreneurs are becoming a larger and larger force, which is parallel to the growth of working Millennials. As a member of the Baby Boomer ge...
Interest rate clock ticks for Janet Yellen and the Fed - but is China a wild card?
The Guardian - 23 Aug 2015 16:00
Release of minutes from Fed's last meeting and turbulent financial news, reveal a climate of wariness as policymakers seem stuck in a pressure cooker Let's all share a giant, silent moment of empathy for Janet Yellen, th...
Market turmoil is yet another lesson in need for international policy cooperation
The Guardian - 23 Aug 2015 15:59
World hasn't changed much since financial crisis, which showed an economic model based on widening inequality and uncontrolled capital flows is unviable And so it begins. Shares are falling, currency markets are in turmo...
HSBC took £4,000 out of my life savings
The Guardian - 23 Aug 2015 10:00
When a transfer of £95,000 to New Zealand went wrong, I was told it was my fault In April I sent two electronic payments - my life savings - totalling £95,000 from my HSBC current account in the UK, direct into my ANZ ...
Need to find a 'cheap' London flat? Beware the agents asking for upfront fees
The Guardian - 23 Aug 2015 10:00
By offering to 'relocate' you, rather than letting you a property, companies get round the rules their rivals must stick to. Emma Lunn reports Housing experts are warning tenants to think twice before using "relocation" ...
The Socially Transmitted Disease That Has No Cure: Identity Theft
ABC News - 23 Aug 2015 09:17
Here's one socially transmitted disease you should worry about online.
Wall Street ready to fight against high-speed trading 'spoofers'
New York Post - 23 Aug 2015 07:25
Wall Street sheriffs could soon be hunting down fast-moving trading bandits overseas. Regulatory brass at American exchanges are ready to unleash a new high-tech campaign to isolate and wipe out...
Chief of snacks giant prepared to make deal for company
New York Post - 23 Aug 2015 07:20
One problem down for hedge-fund moguls Bill Ackman and Nelson Peltz -- but one very big one still stands. The two, who are keen for a sale of snacks giant...
Market dive may actually be a good sign
New York Post - 23 Aug 2015 07:11
China's economy started sneezing two weeks ago, and last week US stock markets got sick. How sick? The Dow Jones industrial average had its worst week in four years as...
Small Business Dilemma: Paying For Health Care
Forbes - 23 Aug 2015 06:21
Next in the Small Business Startup & Survival Guide: Paying for Healthcare.
Embattled Promontory Group is staffed with bigwig regulators
New York Post - 23 Aug 2015 05:53
Promontory Group, the prominent Washington, DC, bank adviser that agreed Tuesday to pay $15 million to settle breach-of-ethics allegations by New York state regulators, is known to be staffed with...
Al Jazeera chief ignores network's turmoil in staff letter
New York Post - 23 Aug 2015 05:43
Al Jazeera America president Kate O'Brian celebrated the network's second anniversary last week with a rousing letter to her staff. O'Brian thanked them for their hard work -- but, not...