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  • Have the Rich Ever Paid a Fair Share of Taxes? (Part 2)

    As the 19th century wound down, the industrialization of the U.S., by then the world's largest and most productive economy, was piling up fortunes of unprecedented size.

  • Logic of Finance Can Banish Corruption (Part 4): Robert Shiller

    The economic power that some in the financial community attain bothers many people deeply. It offends our ideal of a society that aspires to respect, appreciate and support everyone. The pursuit of power that often drives financial capitalism seems contrary to the concept that finance should be about the stewardship of society’s assets.

  • Carnegie Mellon to Get $265M Gift

    Carnegie Mellon University will receive a $265 million donation from retired steel executive William S. Dietrich II, the largest gift in the school’s history.

  • Finance Isn’t as Amoral as It Seems (Part 2): Robert Shiller

    Many people assume there is something sleazy about the business of finance, or the people who practice it. This impression is probably behind the commonly voiced opinion that it is a shame so many young people today are going into finance-related occupations, when they could be doing something more high- minded in other fields.

  • U.S. Steel Bonds Rebound to Par on Auto Sales: Corporate Finance

    U.S. Steel Corp., the nation’s biggest producer of the metal by volume, is making a comeback in debt markets as vehicle sales recover, fueling a surge in its bond prices from a record low.

  • Scene: Druckenmiller, Donaldson, Julian Robertson, Many Lauders

    Tiger Management LLC’s Julian Robertson and William Donaldson, former chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, dined together yesterday at the New York Public Library’s Celeste Bartos Forum.

  • Why Finance Shouldn’t Be the Only Game in Town: Edward Glaeser

    Every December, New York’s salespeople dust off the Chateau Petrus and the Mercedes-Benz AMG Roadsters in the hope that St. Nicholas, erstwhile patron saint of the city, will drop big bonus checks into the stockings of local financiers.

  • Why Finance Shouldn’t Be the Only Game in Town: Edward Glaeser

    Every December, New York’s salespeople dust off the Chateau Petrus and the Mercedes-Benz AMG Roadsters in the hope that St. Nicholas, erstwhile patron saint of the city, will drop big bonus checks into the stockings of local financiers.

  • Why Finance Shouldn’t Be the Only Game in Town: Edward Glaeser

    Every December, New York’s salespeople dust off the Chateau Petrus and the Mercedes-Benz AMG Roadsters in the hope that St. Nicholas, erstwhile patron saint of the city, will drop big bonus checks into the stockings of local financiers.

  • Gas Boom Has Youngstown Making Steel Again

    Thirty-four years after Black Monday, the day Youngstown Sheet & Tube announced shutdowns marking the end of the Ohio city’s steel era, a $650 million mill is coming to life thanks to the natural-gas drilling boom.

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