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March 15, 2013 at 10:16 AM
Vote: Is the Dreamliner good to go?
Boeing insists that it has fixed the battery problem that grounded the 787 Dreamliner fleet and “no fire is possible.” Read the story and the comments and tell us what you think:
Read on for the best links of the week and the haiku:
This Week’s Links:
Blessings of low taxes remain unproved | NY Times
Only Wall Street wins in Detroit crisis, reaping $474 million fee | Bloomberg
Yes, passenger railways can curb car-traffic externalities | Vox
JPMorgan: MF-Global-like segregation of client funds | Ritzhold
Tracking employees with productivity sensors | Business Insider
Elite B-school robots undeterred by humanizing | NY Mag
The new sheriff of Wall Street has its back | Salon
How Amazon prime could soon cost you next to nothing | Wired
Google takes on Amazon and Microsoft for cloud computing services | NY Times
About Pope Francis’ macroeconomic views | Washington Post
Deeply irresponsible fiscal policy | Economist’s View
An ugly bit of ‘blame the borrowers’ | Columbia Journalism Review
Subsidies to giant banks exceed $780 billion a year | Washington’s Blog
Microsoft’s Surface tablet sales said to fall short of predictions | Bloomberg
Today’s Econ Haiku:
Silly question, sure
Why is Jon Corzine at large?
Equal justice, sure
Comments | More in Aerospace/Boeing, Amazon.com, Banking, Boeing, Corporate crime, Deficit, JPMorgan Chase, MF Global, Microsoft
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