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The Panama Canal is being widened and when construction is complete in 2014, larger ships carrying goods from Asia and around the world will be able to pass through the Canal to the U.S. East Coast. Baltimore will be one ..

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Gross Domestic Product is the crack-cocaine of economic indicators. It’s a simple concept, it’s easy for politicians and the media to recite, and it fits in perfectly with society’s single-minded obsession with growth — no matter …

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Earlier this month, Leon Panetta became the first U.S. defense secretary to visit Vietnam’s Cam Rahn Bay deepwater port since the end of the Vietnam War. Panetta chose to stop in Vietnam during his nine-day tour of Asia …

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The members of Fast Company’s League of Extraordinary Women come from an array of big companies, innovative nonprofits, government organizations, inventive startups, and the arts. And each one is doing something …

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Part of the problem is the rest of the world . Europe is in the throes of a debt crisis and spiraling toward recession. China and India are slowing

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George W. Bush is our most unpopular president. Mitt Romney seems to have forgotten all about the Bush years, and is banking on the rest of us forgetting how bad the Bush years were.

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All those millions that America’s billionaires are pouring into super PACs, where do they come from? We can trace a huge chunk of that political cash to the truly massive tax cuts our richest now enjoy

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Any day now the Supreme Court will issue its opinion on the constitutionality of the Accountable Care Act, which even the White House now calls Obamacare.

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The Federal Reserve has once again counted up America’s personal wealth — and omitted the nation’s 400 richest from the final tally. But the new figures, even with that omission, show a divide still deepening.

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