In his new book, "The Quants," Scott Patterson suggests that a new breed of mathematicians and computer scientists took over the financial system and describes how they triggered the 2007-09 meltdown.
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Mike Mandel has four nominees for his “Economic Statistics of the Decade” award, including home prices , Chinese growth, and global trade. How about US household borrowing?
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Which are the world’s most expensive cities? The cities included on this interactive map are from a 2009 study by the UBS, which tracked the ups and downs of various places in the wake of the financial crisis.
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Popular auto makes, magazine publishers and retailers were among the businesses laid to rest in 2009. Here's a list of names that you know but won't see in the future.
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When Dubai announced that it was seeking to reschedule some $26B of debt, global markets went nuts. Yet lost in all the drama is that Dubai is still an important economic experiment and critical to the Middle East.
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