Catherine Rampell
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Many life milestones are out of millennials' reachSep 18, 2014 1:05 am - We want to move out. We want to own our home. We want to marry. We want to work. The problem is, many of us can't. America's young adults have taken a lot of flak for m...
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Atlantic City's repeated gambles on the long shotSep 14, 2014 1:05 am - The get-rich-quick town is going broke. Again. On a recent breezy Saturday night, row after row of slot machines at the Trump Plaza sat eerily unused, their symmetrical,...
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Voting just with wallets not enough for consumersSep 09, 2014 1:05 am - Customers can be so demanding. First they criticized fast-food joints over nutritional content. Now they're getting picky about tax and labor practices. In recent weeks...
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Corporate tax returns should be publicAug 26, 2014 1:05 am - Tax inversions. Double Irish with a Dutch sandwich. Spinning off tangible assets into real estate investment trusts. Son-of-BOSS shelters. These are among the array of e...
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Scandals hiding in plain sightAug 21, 2014 5:05 am - The laboratories of democracy are blowing up. A rash of relatively convoluted, thoroughly unsexy political scandals involving governors is moving through the country. So...
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A's for everyoneAug 17, 2014 5:05 am - Grade deflation is dead. Long live grade inflation! Starting around the mid-20th century, a pandemic of meaninglessly high grades swept the nation. Steadily, the Gentlem...
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Myths abound about the social safety netAug 12, 2014 1:05 am - "Some of my friends are destitute. Some of them are beggars / But, for me, there's a subsidy if I spend my whole life preggers." That was one of the more memorable rhyme...
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Stop the campus rape numbers gameAug 07, 2014 5:05 am - One in five? Yeah, right. Sounds way too high. That's a common reaction to the oft-cited statistic about the share of women who experience an attempted or completed sexu...
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Sick? Some of you can stay home.Aug 03, 2014 1:05 am - Something strange happened in New York last week: Lots of workers who've never done so before got the right to call in sick. And that's a good thing. The Big Apple, you ...
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Me Inc. would bring plenty of dividendsJul 30, 2014 5:05 am - "Checked the tax code," wrote a friend who's engaged to a woman from a low-tax country. "Unfortunately, marrying (my fiancee) does not entitle me to a tax inversion like...