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States Turn Jails Private

Corrections Corp. of America has grown to become the largest private-prison operator in the U.S. as states from California to Florida, along with the federal government, turn to corporate America to punish felons

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Failing Schools Need Help from Business

Business leaders are better suited than principals and teachers to turn around the public educational system in the U.S. Pro or con?

 

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South Africa: A Big Bounce from the World Cup

The nation's economy has grown since the end of apartheid. On the eve of the World Cup, it measures how far it has come and how far it has to go

Jon Corzine Is Working at MF Global. Say What?

He's been the head of Goldman Sachs and the Democratic senator from and governor of New Jersey. Yet Corzine's third act may be the most surprising of them all

Forest Laboratories' Globe-Trotting Profits

From New York to Dublin, through Amsterdam to Bermuda—how one pharmaceutical company avoids a third of its U.S. income taxes by moving its money around the world

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Opening Remarks

The Trillion-Dollar Treatment

News - Global Economics

Now It's Up to the IMF to Make Greece Shape Up

Estonia: Ready for the Euro Club

The Jobless: Why There's No Inflation

Why Factories Are Leaving China

Rich Chinese Businessmen Want Hong Kong Homes

How Duvvuri Subbarao Is Steering India's Economy

Tom Keene Talks with Stephen Roach

Graft Around the Globe (.pdf)

News - Companies & Industries

The Paradox of Deep Water: Lots of Oil, Lots of Danger

Hollywood's Big Bets on Summer Movies

Little Nalco Will Benefit from BP's Spill

Can Fox Hang on to Its Lead?

Case Study: How to Build a B-School

Top 10 CEO Undergraduate Alma Maters

Adidas' Big Money Defense Against Nike

British Air and Its Unions Are Ready to Rumble

Companies in Brief

News - Politics & Policy

Rethinking Fannie and Freddie

The Bank of England's Kingmaker

The Charmed Life of Hedge Funds

An Internet Struggle with Bandwidth Aplenty

For the White House, a New Banker Buddy

When Counties Don't Stop Governing at the Border

News - Technology

Facebook's Washington Problem

Tablets: The Scramble to Be Second

Big Ships Go Green (.pdf)

A Cricket Dispute Leads to a Twitter Win in India

Protecting Cyberspace from Terrorist Attack

Mobile Phones Fight Africa's Drug Wars

Innovator: Marthin De Beer

News - Markets & Finance

An Insurance Giant's Make-or-Break Deal

Great Wall of Worry for China Stock Investors

Buying Amid the Plunge, Bulls Keep the Faith

Reliving the Glory Days of DLJ

Portfolios That Protect Against Rising Rates

Charlie Rose Talks to Nouriel Roubini

Chicago Pays for Selling Bonds Without Bids

Bid & Ask

Features

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The Mother of All Office Dramas

The Dash: Sony's Personal Internet Viewer

Iced Coffee Inc.

A Commuter Bike You Can Take with You

Beware a Bernanke-Fueled Market Bubble

A Free Day in Berlin

Building an Empire, One Goldman Brick at a Time

Former Hewlett-Packard Chairman Patricia Dunn

IN YOUR FACE: Many iPhone Apps are Junk

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Reader Geoff writes:

The reason people pay money for the Guardian iphone App is not the technology, it's the content

Read the story: Are Mobile Apps Creating a 3.5-inch Web

 

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Nouriel Roubini

Economist Nouriel Roubini in 2006 famously predicted a global recession. His new book, Crisis Economics, extracts lessons from the meltdown