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Apr 21, 2016

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Parents Are Bankrupting Themselves to=Look Adequate

Relax — your kids will probably survive even if you don't=/em> live in Scarsdale, drive a Porsche SUV, or send them to private schoo=. They may even be better off for it. But Megan McArdle says only parents have the power to end this absurd arms race. So Much for the =emise of the Big Corporation

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At least that's what its top diplomat, =ohammad Javad Zarif, would have you believe. On Wednesday he made the case=in a Washington Post op-ed, but Eli Lake isn't=buying it.

Cheaper Cable TV=Starts With Competition

Some 99 percent of U.S. =able subscribers rent their set-top boxes from local providers -- a monopo=istic arrangement that costs the average household more than $200 a year. =strong>The Blo=mberg View editorial board praises Barack Obama and the FCC f=r working to make more options available to consumers.

Even Drunken Dri=ers Have Rights

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