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...starts Oct. 29, won't end until Nov. 25. It's the result of an anachronism: Nielsen developed the concept of sweeps week in 1954, when they mailed small TV ratings booklets to households across the country and asked them to record everything they watched for a week. To keep the task of receiving and recording thousands of diaries from the sample households orderly, they started a "sweep," starting on the East Coast and moving West across the country. Now computers make the data gathering and recording a cinch, so Nielsen surveys each market continuously for the entire four weeks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sweeps Week | 10/29/2009 | See Source »

Main Street has paid a price for the ultra-low interest rates the Fed has kept in place to encourage banks to lend and to keep commerce flowing. Cheap money is nice for lenders and borrowers - but it's devastating for savers, especially for retirees who use interest income to supplement Social Security. If you had $500,000 stashed away - not a bad nest egg - you could earn a no-risk $20,000 to $25,000 annually (before taxes) two years ago buying bank CDs or short-term Treasury securities. Now you earn less than $5,000 in an average...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What's Still Wrong with Wall Street | 10/29/2009 | See Source »

...society, decide that new areas of knowledge are eligible for strict patents and copyrights - and that that knowledge can then be cloistered within the lineage of the inventor - it will be easier for a parent to pass wealth onto a child and, as a consequence, keep that family richer than others. Economic systems matter. But we're still the ones in control...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Information Economy May Shrink the Rich-Poor Gap | 10/29/2009 | See Source »

Following the score, Harvard’s defense stood strong for the remainder of the game, managing to keep the Eagles from reaching double-figures in the game’s final sixteen minutes...

Author: By Martin Kessler, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Crimson Bested by Another Ranked Rival | 10/29/2009 | See Source »

...part, Mankiw says that he believes his course exposes students to mainstream economic principles without substantial methodological bias. “I try as best I can to keep my personal political philosophy from what...

Author: By Noah S. Rayman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Tale of Two Ec Classes | 10/29/2009 | See Source »

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