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If the U.S. housing bust triggers a recession, you can still profit in the financial markets. Investment advisers tell their clients to buy bonds when the stock market is in a prolonged tailspin. The conventional wisdom is that about 40 ...

U.S. labor unions are asking the Bush administration for an unlikely Labor Day present — to make it easier for them to organize workers. The United Steelworkers, United Auto Workers and five other unions petitioned the National Labor Relations Board ...

If the U.S. housing bust triggers a recession, you can still profit in the financial markets. Investment advisers tell their clients to buy bonds when the stock market is in a prolonged tailspin. The conventional wisdom is that about 40 ...

U.S. labor unions are asking the Bush administration for an unlikely Labor Day present — to make it easier for them to organize workers. The United Steelworkers, United Auto Workers and five other unions petitioned the National Labor Relations Board ...

You’ve got to hand it to Ben Bernanke, who stepped into some oversized, perhaps overrated shoes when he succeeded Alan Greenspan as Federal Reserve chairman in early 2006. In some circles, the Princeton prof was considered too naive for the ...

The biggest challenge ahead for public finance is going to be how to take out the garbage. Forget about gaping holes in public pensions, or the dumb ways states and municipalities use expensive financial products like interest rate swaps. No, ...

You’ve got to hand it to Ben Bernanke, who stepped into some oversized, perhaps overrated shoes when he succeeded Alan Greenspan as Federal Reserve chairman in early 2006. In some circles, the Princeton prof was considered too naive for the ...

The biggest challenge ahead for public finance is going to be how to take out the garbage. Forget about gaping holes in public pensions, or the dumb ways states and municipalities use expensive financial products like interest rate swaps. No, ...

A recent Wall Street Journal article (“Lawyers Gear Up Grand New Fees,” Aug. 22) examines the dismaying trend of big-city law firms breaking the $1,000-per-hour billing threshold. The article reminded me once again why I left behind a large national ...

Steven Wise’s “Though the Heavens May Fall: The Landmark Trial That Led to the End of Human Slavery” chronicles the 1772 British trial that ended slavery in England. The most striking element of this rich nonfiction work is that Wise, ...

How we make decisions determines who we are and what we will become. If our decisions are based solely on self interests, we will reap corruption. However, if our decisions, especially as a nation, are based on a higher moral ...