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    Tax code changes will hit high-income Americans hardest

    Jan 21, 2014 11:27 PM EST

    ... begin until $300,000 for married couples filing jointly and $250,000 for singles. Taxpayers who didn't plan could find themselves with big tax bills come April 15 -- and perhaps penalties for under-withholding. "It's a snowball effect," said Dave Du Val, TaxAudit.com's vice president of ...

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    The Fed's Terminal Dilemma: When to Begin 'the Great Unwind'

    Aug 07, 2013 02:53 PM EST

    ... Unwind." Well, my muse was Warren Buffett, also known as the Wizard of Omaha, who runs Berkshire Hathaway Inc. Specifically, what got me was an interview Buffett gave on CNBC in March. The topic was central bank policy, which, to a money manager, is nearly as interesting as pickup trucks ...

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    Military Sexual Assault Crisis Prompts Congress to Act

    May 17, 2013 02:32 PM EST

    ... the commander's chances of promotion. "A lower-level chain of command decision can result in extreme bias and extreme pressure," Turner said in an interview in his Capitol Hill office. Turner favors legislation that would move the adjudication decision on sexual assault to higher-ranking military officers then hold ...

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    The Stockholm Syndrome and Printing Money

    May 08, 2013 10:01 PM EST

    ... even has excess fuel to burn! But perhaps most persuasive, as I suggested to David Stockman when he made this same doomsday argument in an interview the other day, is that world interest rates are at historically unprecedented lows. That simply makes no sense if the world's central bankers ...

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    Survey Finds Rate For Young Adult Coverage Improves While Others Decline

    Apr 26, 2013 03:26 PM EST

    ... until the age of 26. Dr. Sara Collins, a vice president at the Commonwealth Fund and the lead author of the report, said in an interview that "this has really been a high risk population. They've always had the highest rates of uninsurance, so this is a major change ...

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    News Wrap: Three Americans Among Casualties of Algeria Hostage Stand-Off

    Jan 21, 2013 05:00 AM EST

    ... outside the city. He played 22 years, helping the Cards win three World Series titles in the 1940s. He was widely regarded as one of game's greatest hitters ever. Stan Musial was 92 years old. Also Saturday, former Baltimore Orioles manager Earl Weaver passed away during a Caribbean cruise ...

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    Mistakes: Paul Krugman's, Greg Mankiw's (And My Own)

    Dec 28, 2012 09:17 PM EST

    ... post of his own, the fear of "bond vigilantes" intent on punishing the US for mounting deficits and debt by demanding higher and higher interest rates to lend us money -- i.e., buy our Treasury bonds. Krugman wrote: America...can't experience an interest rate spike unless people see an ...

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    Republicans Hoping for a Bounce in Tampa

    Aug 22, 2012 01:21 PM EST

    Mitt Romney and Rep. Paul Ryan, attend a town hall Monday in Manchester, N.H. Photo by Aram Boghosian for the Boston Globe via Getty Images. President Obama and Vice President Biden lead Mitt Romney and Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan heading into the national party conventions, but the four-point margin in the latest Wall Street Journal/NBC...

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    'Valuable' Libyan Defections Aid Coalition as CIA Assesses Rebels' Intentions

    Mar 31, 2011 10:43 PM EST

    Jeffrey Brown discusses the U.S.'s role in Libya with two former intelligence officers.

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    Samuelson on Economics and Behavior

    Dec 25, 2009 04:26 PM EST

    Paul Solman: A final excerpt from my interview with Paul Samuelson about a decade ago. For this Christmas Day edition of Business Desk, Samuelson on where behavior and economics intersect. SOLMAN: How much of human behavior does self interest explain? SAMUELSON: I can’t put a quantitative figure, but, for the sake of argument, I’ll say...