Articles focusing on buisness & finances

Ownership is Rare Air for Blacks in Sports

Jarrod Horton Staff Writer There are four major giants that control the majority of popular sports in America. They are the National Football League (NFL), Major League Baseball (MLB), National Hockey League (NHL), and the

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Why Spotify Doesn’t Make Sense for Musicians: 70,000 Listens Earns Less tha $300

 Phenomenal listening powers! (Itty bitty payouts to artists.) By: Robinson Meyer Article Reprint How well does Spotify work for musicians?   Actually, pretty badly. Zoë Keating, a cellist, composer, and occasional Radiolab guest, has released

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Chicago’s “Sin Tax” Targets the Poor

Jarrod Horton Staff Writer Maybe it’s just me, but living in Chicago has become more of a difficult task as of late. Not because of violence or the weather. True Chicagoans can handle that. No

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$5 Dollar Gas, 50 Cent Postage Stamps

By Bob Greene Article Reprint     (CNN) — Remember those carefree days when a gallon of gas was only $5? And when you could cheerfully mail a letter for the rock-bottom price of 50 cents?

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Hall of Famer Murray Settles Inside Trader Case

By Marcy Gordon Article Reprint WASHINGTON (AP) — Eddie Murray made big money in baseball with his powerful swing from both sides of the plate.    According to the Securities and Exchange Commission, he had some

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Zuckerberg: More Opportunties in Mobile than Desktop

Facebook CEO’s first public talk since IPO By Tim Peterson Article Reprint     The one thing Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg made clear in his first time speaking publicly since the company’s May IPO (except during its

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Why College Football Should be Banned

By BUZZ BISSINGER Article Reprint In more than 20 years I’ve spent studying the issue, I have yet to hear a convincing argument that college football has anything do with what is presumably the primary

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Water Successfully Turned into a Commodity by the Water Bottled Industry

Companies turning huge profits from bottle water Mike Barrett Article Reprint   It turns out that much of the population is spending almost 2000 times more for water than they normally would. The typical price of

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