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Former Barclays chairman Marcus Agius faced the Parliamentary Treasury Select Committee on the LIBOR scandal in London in July. Photo by Jason Alden/Bloomberg via Getty Images. One of the biggest business scandals of 2012 was the the manipulation of LIBOR,…

Paul Solman: "Ask Larry" Kotlikoff is a hot commodity here on Making Sense, not only as our (and your) Social Security sherpa, but as a sometime commentator on economics, which is how he's known to the rest of the…

Now that the Bureau of Labor Statistics has released its final unemployment numbers for the year, let's take one last look at 2012's unemployment indicators, month-by-month. We've compiled a year's worth of our own, more-inclusive U-7 figures --…