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Boycott Goldman Sachs? How??

“Occupy Wall Street” Conundrum:  What to Occupy One of my favorite political cartoons — from the 1970’s no less — shows a self-satisfied oil executive sitting behind a big desk, his feet up, smoking a cigar (I said it was from the ’70’s). “You want oil?,” he practically cackles (to no one in particular). “We own the wells.”...
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"I survived the 2:45 p.m. Crash"

“The Flash Crash” Imagine a beef processor that was linked to an e.coli-tainted shipment that ultimately killed 100 people. A week after the outbreak, the authorities were still trying to determine how e.coli got into the beef processor’s facility. In the meantime, the facility was operating “normally,” and continuing to process and sell beef to...
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