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John Bogle, the founder of The Vanguard Group who died last month at age 89, got rich by giving his mutual fund customers a better deal. The obituaries seem to have missed that point, dwelling instead on the theory that if only Bogle had chosen to rip off his customers,
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Employees of Apple "should be humiliated and ashamed" because of the iPhone company's "clearly sleazy" decision to minimize its corporate taxes, New York Times columnist David Brooks claims. "The Apple corporation exists because of American institutions," Brooks writes, complaining that "Apple
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Donald Trump just may be our most honest president since Abraham Lincoln. Sure, the Washington Post's valiant if pedantic fact-checkers claim that "In 710 days, President Trump has made 7,645 false or misleading claims." The Washington Post's Glenn Kessler even introduced a new
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In memory of the late William Safire, place your bets now on possibilities for the year ahead. Choose from the choices offered or devise your own scenarios. Last year's column, Office Pool 2018, correctly anticipated President Donald Trump's ouster of Attorney General Jeff Sessions, the Democratic
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President Donald Trump has been trying to blame the Democrats for the effort by federal prosecutors to depict payoffs to two women as campaign finance violations. If only it were that simple.
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Maybe it's time to rebrand the Democrats as the party of the rich. This month saw the election of Jay Robert "J.B." Pritzker as governor of Illinois. Pritzker, an heir to the Hyatt hotel fortune, is worth an estimated $3.2 billion, and spent $171.
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Many of the latest headlines boil down to a conflict about nationalism. Great Britain's exit from the European Union. Donald Trump's attempt to erect a border wall and to renegotiate the terms of international trade agreements. Russian meddling in American politics. Even public marches by avowed
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The guilty plea of a former lawyer for the Trump Organization, Michael Cohen, on Augist 21 was reportedly motivated in part by Cohen's 83-year-old father, who supposedly told his son that he didn't "survive the Holocaust to have his name sullied by Mr. Trump."