It looks like the secret ingredient in every mortgage-backed security and collateralized-debt obligation bundled on Wall Street was testosterone, as the number and percentage of women in the industry has dropped over the last 10 years: Women are fading from the U.S. finance industry. In the past 10 years, 141,000 women, or 2.6% of female [...]

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For the last couple of years, Google has been putting on an event called Zeitgeist – where thought leaders are invited to discuss “ideas and phenomena that affect our social, economic, political and cultural surroundings” and you can “learn from leading innovators and discuss topics that influence the global economy, creativity, digital technology, leadership and [...]

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Sad for you, Wealthy Americans. What do you stand to lose if the Bush tax cuts ride into the sunset? The additional tax payment you’ll be making adds up to the value of approximately one German luxury vehicle: Wealthy Americans have the price of a BMW convertible riding on the outcome of the Congressional battle [...]

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We’ve stayed out of the whole Ground Zero mosque situation, because politics isn’t our turf. What I can’t resist weighing in on, however, is Donald Trump’s offer to buy the property in question, and Gawker’s response. First: Yesterday Donald Trump offered to buy the site of the proposed “Ground Zero Mosque,” thereby ending the “highly [...]

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