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- Super Tuesday exit polls show that the economy was the main issue for voters. [New York Times]
- Greece has issued an ultimatum to its bond holders: participate in debt restructuring or get nothing. [Financial Times]
- Young workers are bearing the brunt of downward pressure on wages. [Wall Street Journal]
- The House voted yesterday to approve legislation placing tariffs on subsidized goods coming into the U.S. from Vietnam and China. [Reuters]
- Financier Allen Stanford has been found guilty of running a $7 billion Ponzi scheme. [Reuters]
- A new World Bank report shows that, contrary to economists’ predictions, the global recession did not increase poverty in the developing world. [New York Times]
- Brazil has passed the UK to become the world’s sixth largest economy. [Financial Times]
- Lehman Brothers — the investment bank that failed during the early stages of the financial crisis — emerged from chapter 11 bankruptcy yesterday. [CNN Money]
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