Surprises make it harder to take this ‘would you take?’
The Chicago 2016 organizing committee may need two months before formally asking the City Council to put taxpayers behind the Olympic bid, because doing it sooner than that would be...
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Daley puts taxpayers in deep end of Olympic money pool
We're all in -- completely, irrevocably committed to the 2016 Olympic Games -- and we're ahead of other bidders, and the question that occurs now is whether the price will...
Obama reforms may cure health system ills
The question President Barack Obama placed before a skeptical American Medical Association conference in Chicago on Monday was whether American doctors wish to be part of the ongoing health-care crisis...
Give ICE credit in swaps-clearinghouse race with CME
A cramped, windowless room with four computer workstations on tables in the center is where bad corporate debt comes to die. From this austere room in a gleaming Midtown Manhattan...
Computer-makers should not bolster censorship
As if the "Great Firewall of China" were not enough, China's government is erecting an electronic fence that poses a policy challenge to U.S. computer-makers that believe in free speech...
Near-death GM can’t afford another relapse
If General Motors were a person, it would be the morbidly obese neighbor who ignored all health warnings, and now we're on his lawn waiting for the ambulance to arrive....
Bankruptcies will force needed reinvention
Just a few months ago, many experts wrung their hands worrying the economy might tank if one of the Big Three filed for bankruptcy. General Motors is now widely expected...
Targeted dealers hit the brakes on Chrysler
When auto industry consultant Jim Eagan assesses what sort of damage Chrysler LLC has done to 789 car dealers nationwide with its decision to cancel their contracts, he starts with...
CVS-union tiff comes with no expiration date
As the gaggle of television cameras and curious onlookers gathered to hear unionists, a preacher and a community organizer complain about drugstore chain CVS on Thursday, it was hard not...
In battle where size matters, little guy wins
Think of what happened as a case of David vs. Goliath, except in this case they were competing against each other to solve an incredibly complex business problem. Yet --...