Ready… get set… trade! Speed trading — or high frequency trading (HFT), the preferred parlance of regulators — doesn’t operate that fast. It operates much faster. You read it right …
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It’s difficult not to commiserate with Abe Gorelick. In the April 3, 2014 New York Times profile of him in its Business Day section, the Boston ex-marketing executive is portrayed …
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See more Living in… posts by Bruce Haring. China is the second largest economy in the world, offering a huge population whose introduction to Western consumer goods is the Holy Grail of …
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The numbers don’t lie — and the story they tell from the US Census Bureau is that American demographics are changing. The process of change is slow but consistent, and …
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Franz-Peter Tebartz-van Elst, the so-called “Bishop of Bling,” resigned as bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Limburg in Germany, in the wake of criticism from Pope Francis and others after a …
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Breaking News
Former Editor: Bloomberg Buried Investigative Piece to Avoid Angering Chinese Government
Bloomberg News editor-at-large in Asia Ben Richardson has quit Michael Bloomberg’s business-oriented news agency, in protest of his editors burying an investigative piece on Chinese elites. According to the New York Times, …
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Americans have a long tradition of packing up and moving to find better opportunities. Covered wagons streamed west in the early 1800s, packed with people willing to brave the hazards …
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“Xia” is a 38-year-old food cart vendor, who works the streets of the northeastern Chinese city of Shenyang, near the North Korean border. There’s nothing about the man that might catch …
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The Internet is a great communications tool. But like a hammer, it can be used to build a house, or it can break a window. The intent of the person …
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“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” — Anne Frank If the first thing that enters your mind when you hear …