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Lynnley Browning

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Lynnley Browning is a senior writer for Newsweek who writes frequently about business. In prior years she wrote hundreds of stories for The New York Times, Fortune and Reuters on tax, offshore private banking, legal, insurance, real estate and investment matters. She regularly broke news on energy and commodities for Reuters, in Moscow, in the...

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You’re 100 Percent Wrong About Math Scores

American schools don’t suck because of STEM classes; they suck because nobody learns how to write.

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Business

Warren Buffett’s Transparency Problem

Doubting the Berkshire Hathaway CEO and chairman is like calling your grandfather a liar, but his shareholders deserve more transparency

10 min read

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Sports

Selling ‘Beast Mode’ After a Super Bowl Loss

After a stunning defeat in the Super Bowl, Seahawks star Marshawn Lynch is facing a challenge: how to get people to buy his hoodies?

7 min read

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Science

Where Apple Gets the Tantalum for Your iPhone

Apple says it doesn’t use tantalum from war zones in Congo, but how can it be sure?

9 min read

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A Manhattan Made-for-TV Murder

A Wall Street patricide has Manhattan high society gossiping about what went wrong.

8 min read

World

Russia’s Rich Gets Richer—in Dollars—as Ruble Plunges

“Only the poorest people in Russia keep all their assets in rubles.”

9 min read

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Business

How the NY Fed Bent the Rules for Citibank

How the New York Federal Reserve bent the rules to keep Citibank afloat.

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Ferguson Shows Again Eyewitness Testimony is Unreliable

Grand jury document dump includes sharply different versions of what happened in Ferguson.

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Business

UBS Tax Evasion Case Sheds Light on Swiss Secrets

For the first time, U.S. prosecutors named top UBS executives—but a not-guilty verdict makes it hard to go after them.

7 min read

Business

How Far Up Switzerland’s Biggest Bank Did U.S. Tax Evasion Scam Reach?

At the heart of a giant Swiss bank’s tax dodge trial in Florida is a binder full of “Cover Your Ass” evidence.

8 min read

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Business

Too Big to Tax: Settlements Are Tax Write-Offs for Banks

Turns out those multibillion-dollar settlements imposed on banks are deductible

10 min read

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Business

Do Team Games for Employees Really Improve Productivity?

Are the vast sums that companies pay to bring workers closer together worth it?

9 min read

Business

Is It the Market Going Crazy? Or Is It Traders?

The current mood swings in the market can be explained by a branch of economic thought followed by Fed Chair Janet Yellen.

7 min read

Business

Short Seller James Chanos Targets China’s Casino Industry

The famed investor is increasingly training his skeptical eye — and multibillion-dollar war chest — on China’s casino industry.

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Business

Tapes Show How Fed Was Soft on Goldman Sachs

Before she was fired, a Fed staffer recorded conversations with colleagues who urged deference toward Goldman Sachs

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Business

U.S. Crackdown on Inversions Isn’t All It’s Cracked up to Be

Treasury rules designed to make inversions less attractive may not stop such deals, and the money involved isn’t very much

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Vermont’s Flawed Health Care Site Put On Life Support

Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin is shutting down Vermont Health Connect for an unspecified period of time to give the state’s new technology contractor time to repair it

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