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Deadly August riots didn’t rock London’s values or traditions

To skim London’s newspapers earlier this month was to think that the city was consumed by mayhem. But an afternoon at London’s summer attraction — the Royal Wedding Dress at Buckingham Palace — is a fairer exhibit of reality than were the riots alone. Read More

What’s good for the Dodgers isn’t good for America

Like big banks, the Los Angeles Dodgers are “systemically important” — but what works for baseball doesn’t work for America.Imagine a company with too much debt. The firm can’t make payroll. It declares bankruptcy to work out its obligations.Government regulators decree the company’s executives can’t act in what they think are their firm’s best interests. This enterprise is too big to fail. Read More

Legal fights over worker inventions not child’s play

A few years ago, Bratz dolls dismayed parents whose little girls were captivated by the toys’ exaggerated hips and lips. The Bratz girls, though, packed legal smarts into their makeup-slathered plastic heads. Last week, Jade, Sasha and friends won a court victory that’s good for the free-market economy. Read More

The coming BP bailout

Think that President Obama would never allow BP to reap more benefit after its disaster in the Gulf of Mexico? Think again, says Nicole Gelinas. All the signs point to the president working with the British to protect BP against claims that could (justifiably) bankrupt the company: Read More
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