JPMorgan Chase’s $2 Billion Loss

The lesson of JPMorgan’s stunning $2 billion trading loss is that the banks haven’t learned their lesson, and neither have the politicians. Jamie Dimon, the chief executive of JPMorgan Chase, can be clear as a bell when he denounces ...
Posted by Fabrice Florin
3.8

Obama says Romney would cut his own taxes while raising others’

President Barack Obama says Mitt Romney is the anti-Robin Hood. In a campaign speech in Columbus, Ohio, on May 5, 2012, Obama said the Romney's economic plan would raise taxes for millions of low-income Americans while cutting them for the wealthy.
Posted by Fabrice Florin
3.8

How the five web literacies are becoming essential survival skills

Howard Rheingold isn’t too concerned about whether Google is making us stupid or if Facebook is making us lonely. Those kind of criticisms, Rheingold says, miscalculate the ability humans have to change their behavior, particularly when it ...
Posted by Fabrice Florin
3.9

Obama Says Same-Sex Marriage Should Be Legal

President Obama on Wednesday ended nearly two years of “evolving” on the issue of same-sex marriage by publicly endorsing it in a television interview, taking a definitive stand on one of the most contentious and politically charged social ...
Posted by Fabrice Florin
3.9

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