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The reason for Monday's market plummet is little changed from that behind the last few weeks of red ink: Growing certainty that the world is headed into a deep, and probably long, recession. The pessimism is fuelled by statistics showing consumer spending and industrial production falling off in many...
But as more people started using RealtyTrac data to understand the downturn, a backlash took hold, largely because of the company's method of counting the three steps of foreclosure separately; the numbers, critics said, were wildly inflated. One of the protests came from Kathi Williams, director of the Colorado...
Infamous in the hallways of high school across America, U.S. News and World Report’s “Best Colleges” rankings are released with much—undeserved—fanfare. As the U.S. News Web site succinctly states, their purpose is “to...
Insomuch as U.S. News is culpable for this phenomenon, so are students and university officials. It is the student, as a consumer of this commodification and faulty data, who perpetuates the rankings by using them. U.S. News is, after all, a publication. If there were no readership, it would not...
Political robo-calls are regulated by the 1991 Telephone Consumer Protection Act, which requires the organization or individual sponsoring the message to identify themselves as well as provide a telephone number or address to which voters can respond. But because robo-calls are considered a form of political speech, they...