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Bristling with code names like "Clipper" and "Rheingold," Germany's latest corporate scandal seems like the stuff of a Cold War espionage novel. But as merely the latest in a series of corporate shenanigans, it may actually reflect the newly sordid style of business at Germany...
...have a Jedi code that we get from the films. We follow that. Obviously I can't say it because it's copyrighted by George Lucas, but we still talk about it. It's the six things a Jedi should follow...
...restaurant workers pass through New York City's Chinatown, where employment agencies field calls from Chinese restaurants around the country and send workers onto buses with scraps of paper bearing three numbers like this: "$2,400, 440 near Cleveland, 10 hours." That's a monthly salary, the telephone area code of the city where the restaurant is located and the length of the journey from New York City...
...distrust of free trade, a wariness that both Obama and Clinton have echoed in their campaigns. But this is touchy territory: trade may distort the income distribution, but economists remain almost unanimous in warning that restricting trade would slow overall growth. There are similar concerns about using the tax code to address inequality, although Princeton political scientist Larry Bartels demonstrates in his new book, Unequal Democracy: The Political Economy of the New Gilded Age, that the redistributive policies of Democratic administrations since World War II succeeded in delivering better income growth to low-income and middle-income Americans than Republican...
Those who live in Nizhneimeretinskaya Bukhta felt elated too: they expected good business. The letdown came in January, when the state introduced the "Olympic law" laying out the process governing land confiscation for the Sochi Olympics. In contravention of the provisions of Russia's Land Code, the law stipulates that Sochi confiscation disputes would be resolved in court under abridged procedures that allow the state alone to set the price...