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The Federal Reserve of New York sold the last of its stake in American International Group (AIG), the insurance giant bailed out by the federal government in 2008. In selling the last of its assets related to the AIG bailout, the Fed earned an $6.6 billion profit for taxpayers, bringing its total profits from the AIG rescue to $18 billion, CNN Money reports. The U.S

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Household incomes have fallen faster since the end of the Great Recession than they did during it, even as corporations have returned to greater profitability than they reached before the Great Recession. Corporate profits passed their pre-recession levels earlier this year, but according to a new study from Sentier Research, household incomes have fallen behind, dropping nearly five percent from June 2009 to June 2012.

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A recent analysis based on the loose outlines of Mitt Romney’s proposed tax plan — which would disproportionately benefit the wealthy and corporations — found that to remain revenue neutral, as Romney insists it will, it would have to raise taxes on middle- and lower-class families. The result, the Tax Policy Center concluded, is that middle class families would see a $2,000 tax hike , and that is based on the most generous assumptions, since Romney has yet to provide specific details of the plan

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Next week, the Securities and Exchange Commission is due to finally enforce a Dodd-Frank requirement where U.S. companies ensure their use of supply chain minerals — tungsten, tin, tantalum, and gold — does not fund armed groups in Central Africa. According to a new report from CAP’s Enough Project, a number of companies have anticipated the rule with steps toward transparency and pressuring suppliers.

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In August 2004, Google was readying its first public stock offering. Pundits were skeptical that the upstart search company could ever live up to its $23 billion valuation

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As a young biologist, Elizabeth Iorns did what all young biologists do: She looked around for something interesting to investigate. Having earned a Ph.D. in cancer biology in 2007, she was intrigued by a paper that appeared the following year in Nature

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Brian Murphy, a 51-year-old police lieutenant, was the first officer to arrive at the scene of the Sikh temple massacre in Oak Creek, Wis., on Aug. 5.

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Here is a list of the musicians, artists, and other figures mentioned in this series, along with brief bios.

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Click the arrow on the audio player to hear Eric Rawson read this poem. You can also download  the recording or  subscribe  to  Slate ‘s Poetry Podcast on iTunes.                         

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The Internet has fundamentally changed the way that buyers and sellers meet and interact in the marketplace. Online retailers make it cheap and easy to browse, comparison shop, and make purchases with the click of a mouse. The Web can also, in theory, make for better-informed purchases—both online and off—thanks to sites that offer crowdsourced reviews of everything from dog walkers to dentists

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