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Joey Griffiths grew up in the western New York town of Dunkirk and left home at 17. Now he’s 30 and working as a bill collector in Jackson Heights, Queens. He has bills of his own to pay. Says Griffiths: “I’m good at collections because I understand what they’re going through. Just surviving.”
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Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, Fukushima. First the accident, then the predictable allegations in the postmortem: The design was flawed. Inspections were inadequate. Lines of defense crumbled, and reliable backups proved unreliable. Planners lacked the imagination or willpower to prepare for the worst.
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There is no end in sight to Ireland’s debt crisis, but here’s one thing we know: The Irish will not get kicked out of their own country. No matter how many multiples of the nation’s gross domestic product are owed to German and U.K. banks, sovereign foreclosure isn’t an option.
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It’s been more than a week since youthful Saudi Arabian demonstrators bucked the regional trend and cheered their ruler, celebrating his return to the kingdom from medical treatment abroad. Saudi Arabia remains relatively calm in a Middle East burning with revolutionary fervor.
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In May 1931, a Viennese bank named Credit-Anstalt failed. Founded by the famous Rothschild banking family in 1855, Credit-Anstalt was one of the most important financial institutions of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and its failure came as a shock because it was considered impregnable.
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In May 1931, a Viennese bank named Credit-Anstalt failed. Founded by the famous Rothschild banking family in 1855, Credit-Anstalt was one of the most important financial institutions of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and its failure came as a shock because it was considered impregnable.
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Shares of Accenture Plc , the technology consulting firm, sold for $40 on the afternoon of May 6 when the stock suddenly seized up. For 22 seconds there were no recorded trades. Then came a transaction below $10.
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BP says it’s throwing its best people at stopping the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. Nevertheless, it took an outsider -- none other than Energy Secretary Steven Chu , who has a Nobel Prize in physics -- to come up with the idea of peering inside the malfunctioning blowout preventer on the sea floor with high-energy gamma rays.
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Bloomberg Businessweek's Peter Coy talks with James Sterngold, Pimm Fox and David Wilson about the U.S., European and Chinese economies.
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Bloomberg's James Sterngold and Peter Coy of Bloomberg Businessweek talk with Pimm Fox about the outlook for top business stories in 2011.
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