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Should you pick online bank for savings?

You should reconsider the bank you use, at least for some of your savings. Chances are, if you’re a customer at one of the major retail banks, you’re leaving real money on the table. High-yield online savings accounts are finally starting to feel like they are in fact, high-yielding — or at least higher-yielding than they’ve been in recent years. ...

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Did the US shortchange investors $27 billion?

  Elon Musk’s bid to get out of buying Twitter Inc for about $44 billion goes to trial October 17 in Delaware. The same day, another multibillion-dollar lawsuit that zeroes in on good faith when parties sign contracts will be heard in US District Court in Washington. The investment firm Fairholme Funds Inc is leading a group that claims US ...

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Why Putin can’t tap fascism’s top resource

  The Bucha atrocities and more recent evidence of torture from the areas near Kharkiv recently retaken by the Ukrainian military create an impression of a Russian genocidal zeal — the kind exhibited by Nazi German troops in the territories they captured or, say, by Italian fascist troops in Ethiopia. Yet Vladimir Putin’s Ukraine adventure is such a flop precisely ...

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