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On the issue of health care reform, your choice on Election Day comes down to Obamacare or “repeal and replace.” President Barack Obama’s position can be “summed up” in 2,400 pages. That’s the length of his Affordable Care Act, the landmark 2010 health care overhaul informally known as Obamacare, which makes sweeping consumer-centric changes to common health insurance practices. The law is closely modeled after the Massachusetts health insurance reform that Republican challenger Mitt Romney championed when he was governor of that state in 2006. But now, the former Massachusetts governor vows that if he’s elected president, he’ll repeal the [...]

TOKYO World Trade Organization Director General Pascal Lamy said on Saturday that there was no system of rotating his job between countries and regions and his successor should be picked on the basis of competence alone. Lamy, who will leave the WTO after two terms in August 2014, said it was up to the organization’s member countries to decide on the criteria for selecting the new WTO chief who will oversee unfinished negotiations over trade liberalization. Emerging market countries will want to see one of their own in charge of the Geneva-based trading club after the top jobs at the [...]

If you’ve just packed one (or more!) kids off to college, you’re probably still reeling from the aftershock of writing that hefty tuition check. And possibly wondering if the money’s really worth it. The short answer: yes. Individuals who graduate with at least a four-year college degree earn on average 84% more than workers with a high school diploma. Taking it a step further, recent research by Jon James, an economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland illustrates that a student’s choice of a major is a significant factor in determining her earning power after graduation.  Not surprisingly, his [...]

Caplen: Ideal time for new Barclays’ chief executive to take over would be six months to a year from nowBut analysts and market watchers have been broadly positive about Antony Jenkins’ appointmentThe selection of Jenkins is quite a clever choice — he is from the consumer side of the bank and produces results But Jenkins may have to accept that he spends the first six months to a year in his new job fighting firesEditor’s note: Brian Caplen is editor of The Banker magazine, part of the Financial Times group. He has 30 years experience of writing about business and [...]

Among teens, YouTube is the most popular way to listen to music, according to a Nielsen surveyYouTube is now most popular way teens listen to music64 percent of teens say they listen to music through the siteNielsen survey found radio is still most popular among all adultsAbout 1 in 3 teens bought a CD last year; more than half downloaded iTunes? Old news. Radio? Ancient history. Buying a new CD? Maybe every now and then.But the most popular way today’s teens discover music is through clicking around on YouTube.That’s the finding of a new study by media research firm Nielsen. [...]

If you’re like many Americans, you might find you’re saying “debit” instead of “credit” more often at the cash register. Debit card use rose dramatically in the last decade, surpassing credit card use in 2006, according to Federal Reserve estimates.But consumer protections differ for the two payment options, making credit cards the better choice in some circumstances. Here are four instances when you should use your credit card instead of your debit card:1. Hotel RegistrationWhen you check in, the hotel puts a temporary hold on your account for more than you might spend, say $ 250 a day, to protect [...]

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