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End of Men in Power? It’s Not Even Close
It's spring 2013 – 50 years after Betty Friedan's explosive book launched feminism's "second wave," 41 years after Title IX, the equal-opportunity amendment banning sex discrimination in education, ...
U.S. Encourages South Korea to Join Trans-Pacific Trade Talks
The United States would welcome South Korea joining negotiations on an Asia-Pacific free trade agreement, a senior U.S. trade official said on Wednesday, as Washington continues to weigh Japan's bid ...
Fed Approves Process for Designating Nonbanks for Stricter Regulation
The U.S. Federal Reserve said on Wednesday that it had approved a final rule to clarify the process the new U.S. risk council will follow when it begins designating nonbank financial firms for ...Greenberg’s View: AIG, Inside vs. Outside Directors and Arthur Levitt
Former AIG CEO and Chairman Maurice "Hank" Greenberg warned against the movement to install more outside directors on corporate boards long before a group of outsiders took over American ...
IRS Asked to Clarify Obamacare Investment Tax
Businesses and wealthy owners of estates and trusts asked the IRS on Tuesday for changes to a part of President Barack Obama's 2010 healthcare law that has received comparatively little attention: a ...
Twitter, Facebook Disclosures Okay, SEC Says
As long as companies alert investors about which social media outlet they plan to use in advance, they can use outlets like Facebook and Twitter to disclose key information, the Securities and ...
Should Tweeting CEOs Be Muzzled or Glorified?
If the CEO of a public company posts good news about the company's booming business on Facebook, does that same CEO have an obligation to post information about a subsequent business decline? The ...