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To Invest, or not to Invest? As Wall Street posts a new record, experts decode its message about the state of the economy – and whether it’s too late to invest. Dow at 15,000: What the stock market is telling us Do young people believe in stocks? Why Charles Larsen will be staying out of the market One couples’s rationale for getting into the market Illustration by Dan Vasconcellos/The Christian Science Monitor View high resolution

To Invest, or not to Invest? As Wall Street posts a new record, experts decode its message about the state of the economy – and whether it’s too late to invest.

Dow at 15,000: What the stock market is telling us

Do young people believe in stocks?

Why Charles Larsen will be staying out of the market

One couples’s rationale for getting into the market

Illustration by Dan Vasconcellos/The Christian Science Monitor

Countdown to Tax Day: As April 15 looms, we dig a little deeper into taxes, where they come from, where they go, and what reforms to the tax code could look like.

Tax reform: Why a kinder, simpler tax code eludes Congress so far

Tax day 2013: Saving energy can save you money on taxes

What does the federal government do with your money? Take our taxes quiz.

Graphics by Rich Clabaugh/The Christian Science Monitor

Egypt's dire economy looms over elections

Egypt’s foreign reserves have tumbled to $15 billion from $36 billion, jeopardizing the government’s ability to meet the people’s needs. The future is about a lot more than voting.

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The protesters appeared to be a motley assortment of slackers, students, environmentalists, socialists, feminists, and hippies. It is easy to lampoon such folks, just as it easy to poke fun at the retirees, gun lovers, and pro-lifers that man the Tea Party information booths. But like the conservative enragés that have taken over parts of the Republican Party, these protesters have a serious issue that motivates them: the purported takeover of the political system by the richest one per cent of the population, as symbolized by Wall Street. “The one thing we all have in common,” says the protesters’ site, “is that We are the 99% that will no longer tolerate the greed and corruption of the 1%.
John Cassidy, in his piece for The New Yorker on the Occupy Wall Street protests. Recommended among Good Reads from the Monitor’s international desk.
From the feature story: Unemployment, Inc.: Six reasons why America can’t create jobs. View high resolution

From the feature story: Unemployment, Inc.: Six reasons why America can’t create jobs.

From the feature story: Unemployment, Inc.: Six reasons why America can’t create jobs. View high resolution

From the feature story: Unemployment, Inc.: Six reasons why America can’t create jobs.

nationalpost: Graphic: Apple Inc.’s bushels of cash View high resolution

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Graphic: Apple Inc.’s bushels of cash

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A daily cartoon from our commentary page View high resolution

A daily cartoon from our commentary page

Fred Greaves/Special to The Christian Science Monitor Some 10.1 million firms are owned or co-owned by women, 40 percent of all businesses in the United States, says the Center for Women’s Business Research, a research group in McLean, Va. Between 2002 and 2007, women created almost twice as many businesses as men, according to data from the Census Bureau. Read how women started more firms than men before the recession. View high resolution

Fred Greaves/Special to The Christian Science Monitor

Some 10.1 million firms are owned or co-owned by women, 40 percent of all businesses in the United States, says the Center for Women’s Business Research, a research group in McLean, Va. Between 2002 and 2007, women created almost twice as many businesses as men, according to data from the Census Bureau.

Read how women started more firms than men before the recession.