Business
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Let’s Look Back on 2021, When We Couldn’t Stop Looking Back
Time is an abstract and collectively imaginary concept, and often our brains must latch onto contemporary metaphors to fathom its churn. So I ...
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Biden’s China Dilemma: How to Enforce Trump’s Trade Deal
WASHINGTON — When he assumed the White House, President Biden promised to take a different approach to China than his predecessor, saying that ...
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Retail sales rose slightly in November as holiday shopping began.
Retail sales rose for the fourth straight month in November, the Commerce Department reported on Wednesday, as shoppers flocked to stores to ...
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What Will the Fed Say?
The Fed’s Jay Powell is deciding how to tamp down rising inflation.Credit...Andrew Harnik/Associated PressA big day for Jay The Federal Reserve ...
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Four Resolutions for a Healthier Tech Life in 2022
The coronavirus pandemic has been packed with plenty of nasty tech surprises. We ran into the problem of a perpetual scarcity of hardware, like ...
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Jobless for a Year? That Might Be Less of a Problem Now.
Jamie Baxter used to be skeptical of job applicants who had not worked for long stretches of time, assuming that other employers had passed them ...
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‘The Music Man’ Once Had a Disabled Character. Then He Was Erased.
Many know Meredith Willson’s 1957 Broadway musical, “The Music Man,” as a light comedy centered on a cheeky scam artist who pretends to be a ...
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Judge Clarifies Order on New York Times Coverage of Project Veritas
A New York trial court judge on Tuesday issued a clarification in an order that has temporarily prevented The New York Times from seeking out or ...
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Michael Gargiulo Dies at 95; Documented the Moscow ‘Kitchen Debate’
Michael Gargiulo, an Emmy Award-winning television director and producer who immortalized the impromptu 1959 “kitchen debate” between Vice ...
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Proud Boys Regroup Locally to Add to Ranks Before 2022 Midterms
They showed up last month outside the school board building in Beloit, Wis., to protest school masking requirements. They turned up days later at ...