Economics and Investing:

Smoke And Mirrors: What Did OPEC Really Agree On? Oil prices shot up more than 6 percent this week on the news that OPEC reached a deal to cut oil production, but in reality the deal is fairly shapeless

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The Trumped-Up Myths Behind “Trickle-Down” Economics. The critique of “trickle-down” economics relies on a mistaken zero-sum view that more income for some must reduce incomes to others.

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Some Deutsche Bank Clients Unable To Access Cash Due To “IT Outage”

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The retirement gamble: 30 percent of American adults have no retirement savings. Half of Americans live paycheck to paycheck.

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