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MineralTree Raises $50M, Buys Two Companies

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The funding initiative is being led by existing investors Great Hill Partners LP, the Boston-based private equity firm, Eight Roads Ventures, the global venture capital firm based in China and.406 406 Ventures, the Boston venture capital fund. MineralTree Inc.,

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Stimulus Relief: Less Spending, More Saving

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In 2001, the government gave most households up to $600 ($875 adjusted for inflation) and in 2008 handed out up to $1,200 per household. And in those cases, Jonathan Parker, an economist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, told the Boston Globe , the attempt was pretty successful.

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Groupon Teams Up With Redeam To Expand Worldwide Experiences

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The attraction and activity operators it serves include Walt Disney World, BigBus Tours, Boston Harbor Cruises, National Geographic Encounter: Ocean Odyssey and the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum. Groupon, founded in 2008 in Chicago, is a digital marketplace where people can get discounts on things to do, see, eat and buy.

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What To Watch And Read This Weekend: Pandemic Edition

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Ever since the bankruptcy of Lehman in 2008, one of the pivotal events of the financial crisis, the question of why the Fed didn’t bail out Lehman as it did other banks still remains. The disease spreads as far as Boston but is more or less contained in the small town of Cedar Creek, Calif., and that’s where the cure must be found.

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GlobalEcon Grows Chinese Presence With Shanghai Office

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Thanks to the courts and agencies, China has made tremendous progress in embracing sophisticated economic analysis since the enactment of the Anti-Monopoly Law in 2008,” said David S. GlobalEcon serves clients worldwide and has offices in Chicago, New York, Boston, Mexico City, Madrid, Beijing, Shanghai and a global network of affiliates.

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Fed To Offer Huge Credit Help To Stem Economic Losses

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David Joy, chief market strategist with Ameriprise in Boston, said while he applauds the Fed for trying, it simply won’t be enough. The Fed made it very clear that the financial system is not going to have a freeze-up like in 2007 and 2008. They’re going to buy almost every debt instrument asset out there that will prevent this.

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Why A Chicago Startup Is Tying Its Future To Physical Retail

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Last year saw store closures spike 200 percent to 7,000 — the worst retail bloodletting since the dark days of the 2008 recession. Their pop-up locations in cities like New York and Boston, which were conceived of as an investment in marketing and expanding brand awareness, did not capture a lot of revenue initially.

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