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Wednesday, May 2, 2012 - 7:02pm
Legal Profession in Crisis? Law School Bubble, Weak Job Market Signal Precarious Changes
Recent news stories suggest that the legal profession is reacting to the fact that the law school bubble has popped. I have previously discussed how the law school bubble is a subset of the higher education bubble. In this way, unlike a bubble in real estate, dot-coms, or tulips, the law school...
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Sunday, January 29, 2012 - 12:47pm
Prologue Protests: Get Ready for an American Spring
One year after the Egyptian Revolution, in light of the revolutionary wave in the Middle East known as the "Arab Spring", might there be an "American Spring" around the corner in 2012? Given recent developments, struggling economic conditions, and recurring political rhetoric in the news, an...
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Friday, December 23, 2011 - 9:57am
Want to Invest like Ron Paul? Buy Gold
Three words seem to sum up Ron Paul's perspective when it comes to investing: gold, gold, and gold.Marketplace featured a story Thursday on Ron Paul's investment strategy of buying gold. Marketplace's Bob Moon interviewed Jason Zweig, an investing columnist from the Wall Street Journal. On the...
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Thursday, December 22, 2011 - 5:02pm
US Economy & Unemployment: What Is To Be Done?
On Wednesday, Marketplace's Kai Ryssdal interviewed Stephanie Elsenpeter, an unemployed mother living in New Hope, Minn. Elsenpeter discussed how her emergency-extended unemployment benefits are going to run out the week of Jan. 8. On the topic of her unemployment benefits running out, Ryssdal...
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