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 | FINANCEWhy the ‘Living Wills’ of Top U.S. Banks Failed the TestEight years after the Great Recession, top U.S. banks are still not ready to cope with the aftermath of another financial crisis, according to a report from the Federal Reserve and the FDIC. |
 | PUBLIC POLICYIs Social Security Really Running Short?The U.S. Social Security system faces insolvency, says Wharton’s Olivia S. Mitchell. Fewer young workers are paying into the system relative to rising numbers of longer-living retirees. |
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KWHS and PwCSeminar for High School Educators on Business and Financial Responsibility |
K@W & MomentumCustomer Experience: Strategic Collaboration for Omni-channel Success | |||
 | TECHNOLOGYGoogle Books: Great for Google but What about Everyone Else?This week, the U.S. Supreme Court backed a ruling in favor of Google Books. While the growing digital library is a boon for Google and may benefit the public interest, it raises concerns about privacy and competition. |
 | FINANCECan the Fed Offset a Major Slowdown? Ask Ben BernankeFormer Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke says the Fed is low on ‘bullets’ to offset a serious slowdown in the U.S. economy, although he does not anticipate one. |
 | PUBLIC POLICYWhy Even the Best Forecasters Sometimes Miss the MarkForecasters are human, and forecasting models, for all their dispassion, are built by people. But specialists in forecasting say that despite their limitations, they remain a strong improvement over pure guesswork. |
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K@W and EYEuropean Private Equity, Part 2: Market Outlook |
WHARTON DIGITAL PRESSThe Immigrant Exodus: A 2012 Economist Book of the Year | |||
 | FINANCEIs It Possible to Defog America’s Corporate Financial Reports?Almost nobody can fully understand big companies’ dense, complex and overlong financial statements, and all those issues are only getting worse. That part is obvious. Why it’s happening is not. |
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