Trouble ahead for community banks

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Can farming save Detroit?

John Hantz is a wealthy money manager who lives in an older enclave of Detroit where all the houses are grand and not all of them are falling apart. Once a star stockbroker at American Express, he left 13 years ago to found his own firm

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More registers ringing this holiday season

Americans probably gifted retailers modestly better sales this year compared to a disastrous 2008. Still, that’s no guarantee that consumers’ shop ’til you drop mentality is back

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Paul Volcker is engaged!

News from the Paul Volcker front: No, he has not persuaded the Obama administration to toughen up its policies about the proprietary trading of the big U.S. banks, a move he’s been vigorously campaigning for in his job as chairman of the Economic Recovery Advisory Board.

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Suddenly, safe haven Treasurys get tricky

The flight-to-safety crowd could be in for a bumpy landing.

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Suddenly, safe haven Treasurys get tricky

This could be Intel’s Waterloo

While today’s Federal Trade Commission action against semiconductor giant Intel recycles some now familiar charges — abuses of monopoly power that were the subject of suits previously filed against the company by rival AMD and regulators with the European Commission, Japan, Korea, and the New York State Attorney General’s office — it also advances new factual allegations and enlists some fresh and untested legal theories into the fray.

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Enron, welcome to Broadway

Can Jeff Skilling sell tickets on Broadway? That’s the bet being wagered by a team of New York theater producers who are spending some $3.6 million to bring a version of “Enron,” a theatrical production currently running in London, to Broadway next spring.

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Fourth-quarter yearnings

It was a passable year, 2009, but I’m not sorry to see it go.

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