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Why former Fed chair Ben Bernanke deserves his Nobel Prize—despite the naysayers

Most Americans, understandably, know Ben Bernanke as the person who was head of the Federal Reserve during the financial crisis of 2007-2009 (aka the Great Recession), and who took extraordinary measures to try to prevent banks and other financial institutions from collapsing and credit markets from seizing up. But before he was Fed chairman, Bernanke […]

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The same app can pose a security and privacy threat depending on where you download it

Google and Apple have removed hundreds of apps from their app stores at the request of governments around the world, creating regional disparities in access to mobile apps at a time when many economies are becoming increasingly dependent on them. The mobile phone giants have removed over 200 Chinese apps, including widely downloaded apps like TikTok, at […]

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How to trade stocks like a wealthy member of Congress: Proposed ETFs may let you

As momentum keeps building publicly to stop Congress from trading stocks, the people with the power to do it—Congress members themselves—aren’t in a rush. Last week, House Democrats started teasing a rewritten version of a bill that would ban most congressional trading, only for their own majority leader, Steny Hoyer, to say he was probably voting no, […]

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