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New Report Reveals The 500 Largest Family-Owned Companies In The World

http://ift.tt/1sHX1gh Mention "family business" and one might assume you're talking about the mom and pop restaurant around the corner or your local dry cleaner. But some of the world's largest companies and best known brands like BMW and Wal-Mart...

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Top 25 Largest Family-Owned Companies In The World

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Wall Street's B.S. About Bernanke's New Job

http://ift.tt/1sHX1gh Former Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke announced last week that he had accepted an offer to become a senior advisor to a hedge fund. Wall Street howled that Bernanke had done something so wrong that it was close to...

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How You Explain Your Failures Determines Your Success

http://ift.tt/1sHX1gh We often hear that failure is just a stepping stone to success. But how to you actually turn a setback into a stepping stone? It begins with how you explain your failures. from Forbes Real Time...

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Welfare Payments Really Are Not Subsidies To The Profits Of Walmart And McDonald's

http://ift.tt/1sHX1gh A week back we had the shocking news that of the various welfare payments made in the US some $153 billion of them went to families in which there was at least one person working. This is true by the way, those do look to be...

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The Dirt on Earth Day: Chemophobia Masquerading As Environmentalism

http://ift.tt/1sHX1gh Earth Day has degenerated into a technology bash-fest, with pesticides and genetic engineering favorite targets. Instead, it should promote greater scientific literacy, because having more than a passing acquaintance with...

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Krugman; Greece Shouldn't Have Joined The Euro But That Doesn't Mean It Should Leave

http://ift.tt/1sHX1gh This all sounds reasonable to me. At least the logical process used to reach the conclusion is correct, although I think I still come up with a different end solution, which is that Greece should still leave the euro. For I'm...