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Pearlstein: The robots-vs.-robots trading has hijacked the stock market
A small fraction of the trades on stock markets are made by real-life humans. Are the complex algorithms really working?
Pearlstein: Donald Trump is now a lame-duck president
This is a Waterloo moment for Trump, the Tea Party and their alliance. They have been stopped in their tracks not only by Democratic opposition, but because of a mutiny...
Pearlstein: Having a richer discussion about inequality
Inequality may well be the issue of our time. But is it inequality of income we care about or inequality of opportunity? And what is opportunity?
Pearlstein: Biggest winners of an Obamacare repeal: The young, healthy and rich
In one of the latest rounds of government-by-tweet, Donald Trump has once again revealed that he doesn't have a clue about the markets for health care and health insurance.