The SEC proposes to let knowledgeable but less-affluent individuals become “accredited investors.”
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A New Back Door To The Private Investment Club
Quarantining A Metropolis
Nobody has ever tried to quarantine a modern city. China is isolating several, hoping to stop an emerging disease.
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Minding The Hired Help
Assume everything is OK unless you are informed otherwise? Maybe for a responsible child, but not for the hired hands.
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British Faucets And American Chicken
Britain and America jointly pioneered the use of chlorine for public health, giving a modern poultry flap an ironic taste.
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Backstory To A Cheating Scandal
Cheating scandals are not a new development in baseball. The latest seems unlikely to go away any time soon.
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Subscription Bikes: Hazardous To Your Wealth
Consumers pay big bucks for Peloton bikes. To enjoy their fancy features, they have to keep paying.
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Elsie the Cow Goes Bust
A legend on Madison Avenue as well as down on the farm, Elsie the Cow faces unemployment as the dairy industry struggles.
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Exploiting Tragedy To Squeeze Apple
Investigators found evidence to conclude that a terrorist acted alone, but Barr pressures Apple to hack its phones anyway.
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Who Is An Alien?
The tax code still uses the archaic, demeaning term “resident alien.” Thanks to an editor’s fresh perspective, we don’t.
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The Equal Rights Amendment, Back From The Dead
The world moved on after the Equal Rights Amendment failed to gain ratification decades ago. Now it’s back in the news.
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