Slate's culture editor June Thomas and senior writer Seth Stevenson react to Episode 2 of Downton Abbey's fifth season, including the war memorial and the lingering possibility of a Carson-Mrs. Hughes kiss.
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Almost half of U.S. homeowners expect their equity to rise this year. So finds loanDepot. The lender's chief financial officer, Bryan Sullivan, joins John Wordock.
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Feb 22, 2016
The Wall Street Journal's Anne Tergesen writes that investors are choosing passive investment funds over funds run by active stock pickers. That's driving billions of dollars into funds that track indexes.
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Oct 19, 2016
What kind of information do you need to project a winner on election night? We talk with Brandon Finnegan, who runs the Decision Desk HQ project, about crowdsourcing vote counts to make calls—and what the consequences of a bad call might be this year. ...
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Nov 7, 2016