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Slate Magazine - Aug 30, 2008
The most revolutionary notion in commerce today is one of the oldest. If you want to buy something, you may actually have to pay for it. We are reverting from a "borrow and buy" economy to the "cash and carry" model of …
Slate Magazine - Aug 27, 2008
Barack Obama's tax plan, laid out by advisers Austan Goolsbee and Jason Furman in the Wall Street Journal in mid-August, promises to improve the nation's fiscal standing by scaling back tax cuts for people making more …
Slate Magazine - Aug 25, 2008
Before the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics, I wrote about economic models that aimed to pre-empt thousands of hours of television coverage, sappy features, and tape-delayed tension. John Hawksworth of …
Slate Magazine - Jul 25, 2008
It's not exactly insightful to point out that young people don't feel the need to have old-fashioned telephones, the kind that are tethered to a house via a wire and provided by a descendant of the original AT&T …
Slate Magazine - Jul 23, 2008
President Bush neatly summed up the complex problems in the financial sector last week in terms he could understand. "Wall Street got drunk," he said. "It got drunk and now it's got a hangover." And to pay for the …
Slate Magazine - Jul 23, 2008
On Monday, we told you that the Starbucks franchise is downsizing from a grande to a tall. The ubiquitous coffee retailer announced it's closing about 600 of its U.S. stores, and we wanted to hear your anecdotes about …
Slate Magazine - Jul 21, 2008
The Starbucks franchise is downsizing from a grande to a tall. The ubiquitous coffee retailer announced it's closing about 600 of its U.S. stores, beginning this month. The swath of shuttered windows will chop away 5.5 …
Slate Magazine - Jul 18, 2008
In ordinary times, a public discussion on deposit insurance would hold all the drama of a seminar on Canadian land use. But these are no ordinary times. Last Wednesday at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, a bank of …
Slate Magazine - Jul 9, 2008
In yesterday's column on the plight of Swiss bank UBS, I asked readers to submit more apt definitions for the bank's acronymic name, which stands for Union Bank of Switzerland. And respond they did, with dozens of …
Slate Magazine - Jun 28, 2008
As the presidential campaign kicks into gear, housing, energy, and rising unemployment have thrust the economy front and center. Whether they are talking about the need to drill off the coast of South Beach (John …