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Trader at the Frankfurt Stock Exchange in Germany. Photo by Ralph Orlowski/Getty Images. The U.S. markets lie as still today as the birds on America's platters, but the same cannot be said for fluttering Europe, or anywhere else in the…

Paul Solman: Today's Making Sen$e post comes courtesy of the page's web chief, Elizabeth Shell. A majority of first-time working mothers are now receiving paid maternity leave -- a first since the government started tracking the data in the…

Paul Solman: Today's Making Sen$e post comes courtesy of the page's web chief, Elizabeth Shell. A majority of first-time working mothers are now receiving paid maternity leave -- a first since the government started tracking the data in the…

I've been saying the following to friends and colleagues for months now: In all my many years as a business and economics reporter, I have never seen a greater cognitive dissonance than in the current coverage of the U.S.

I've been saying the following to friends and colleagues for months now: In all my many years as a business and economics reporter, I have never seen a greater cognitive dissonance than in the current coverage of the U.S.