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...Closet on Boston’s tony Newbury St., classic Chanel handbags are the quickest items to fly off the shelves. The Closet, which has only one location, gets its exclusively high end stock from consigners who receive a 50% cut of the selling price...

Author: By Lingbo Li, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Shops Offer Clothes That Fit Consumers’ Wallets | 2/18/2009 | See Source »

...quickest way to help the auto industry would be to make sure that no one in the U.S. defaults on a car loan. Certainly the government could make sure that people who are employed and do not have a history of being deadbeats get a portion of their car loans paid. When cars are repossessed and go onto the market to be sold as "used," that drives down the entire market for similar vehicles. A surfeit of well-maintained cars available at prices well below new ones undermines the ability of Detroit to get its sales back up without having...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Saving the Real Estate Market by Paying the Neighbor's Mortgage | 2/13/2009 | See Source »

...youngest tenured professors in Harvard history, but a decade later he also went on to win the prestigious John Bates Clark Medal, given to the best American economist under the age of 40. Both his critics and his fans admit he is usually the quickest thinker in even the most rarefied rooms, with a family pedigree that includes two uncles who separately won Nobels for economic science. "All of us are deeply resentful," Douglas Holtz-Eakin, the chief economic adviser to John McCain's presidential campaign, says with a laugh. "In terms of just genetic ability to do this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Larry Summers Save the Economy? | 1/29/2009 | See Source »

Highlight Reel:1. On the new interrogation tactics he was trained to utilize: "The quickest way to get most (but not all) captives talking is to be nice to them. But what does it mean to be "nice" to a subject under interrogation? ... It means, ideally, getting to know the subject better than he knows himself and then manipulating him by role-playing, flattering, misleading, and nudging his or her perception of the truth slightly off center. The goal is to turn the subject around so that he begins to see strong logic and even wisdom in acting against...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Break a Terrorist | 12/2/2008 | See Source »

What's ahead for stocks? Trying to predict short-term market moves, of course, is one of the quickest ways to look like an idiot. And yet there are clues to be mined. (See pictures of the Top 10 scared traders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Market Outlook: More Plunges or a Year-End Rally? | 11/24/2008 | See Source »

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