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What Will It Take to Fix the Mess in Zimbabwe?

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Even 2017 Couldn’t Crack the $90 Billion Disaster-Bond Market

Natural-catastrophe bonds attract hedge and pension funds with their yields. But investors could have taken deep losses if the wind had blown in a different direction.

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Brooks Needs Runners Who Hate to Run

The $500 million company has conquered runners. Now it has to figure out everyone else.

by Claire Suddath

Technology

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HQ Trivia Is a Hit. Now It Just Needs to Not Self-Destruct

Intermedia Labs figured out how to build a livestreaming audience with its game-show app. Can it survive the scrutiny that comes with success?

by Max Chafkin

Economics

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Ukraine’s Ban on Selling Farmland Is Choking the Economy

Kiev keeps putting off land reforms, despite pressure from the IMF and investors.

by James M Gomez and Kateryna Choursina

Technology

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You’d Be Crazy to Actually Spend Bitcoin

Speculative fervor makes the cryptocurrency clumsy for commerce.

by Olga Kharif

Politics

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Protests in Iran Put Rouhani on the Spot

The president must navigate between the people and the ayatollahs and contend with forces outside his control, such as sluggish foreign investment—and Donald Trump.

by Golnar Motevalli, Kambiz Foroohar and Grant Clark

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America’s Worst Graveyard Shift Is Grinding Up Workers

Cleanup at the slaughterhouse is as dangerous as it is repulsive, and the immigrants who do the work are under pressure to complete it faster than ever.

by Peter Waldman and Kartikay Mehrotra

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These Classic Charts Are Confounding Economists

A debate is raging on what the flattening of the yield curve and the Phillips curve mean for U.S. growth.

by Peter Coy

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Mike Pompeo Is the Anti-Tillerson

by Nafeesa Syeed

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Why the University of Illinois Is Investing in Farmland

by Janet Lorin

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Lufthansa Prepares for Low-Cost Competition After a Banner 2017

by Richard Weiss

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Putin’s Rival Can’t Run for President, But He’s Still a Threat

by Henry Meyer

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Why Inflation Stays Low Even Though Unemployment Is Down

by Peter Coy

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Democracy in Iran? The Demographics Say Yes

by Leonid Bershidsky

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Why Inflation Stays Low Even Though Unemployment Is Down

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This Dollar Shortage Isn’t Likely to Last

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Seven and a Half Reasons to Be Optimistic About Tech in 2018

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Outrage Over Proposal to Let Employers Pool or Pocket Workers’ Tips

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Maybe We Should Call the Byrd Rule the ‘Byrd Suggestion’

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Where to Go in 2018

The 22 destinations that will be especially hot this year—and the data you need to plan your trip.

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