Forget college. Business is starting its talent hunt one step earlier: high school On the fourth floor of Norman Thomas High School in midtown Manhattan, past the metal detector at the front door, up the elevator that can be...
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How does an elected official kill a little time while awaiting the legal disposition of 82 public corruption charges? If you're former state House Speaker John Perzel, you don't hang your head in shame. As Rep. Gordon...
Under pressure from the Bush administration, the Alan Greenspan-led Federal Reserve created massive amounts of fiat money. It financed the largest asset boom in history. In turn, this precipitated the recent deleveraging and...
What city contributed most to the making of the modern world? The Paris of the Enlightenment and then of Napoleon, pioneer of mass armies and nationalist statism? London, seat of parliamentary democracy and center of finance?...
UPMC, internationally renowned as a center for organ transplants, is involved in some hinky business just up the river from its swanky headquarters atop what once was known as the USX Tower. The health care giant is removing...