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Should Regulators Block AT&T's Acquisition of T-Mobile?

Harvard Business Review

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the CPI for "wireless telephone services" has declined every year since 2001; the same basket of wireless services in January 2011 cost consumers 12 percent less than what it cost in January 2001, and 40 percent less than what it cost in January 1998.

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Don’t Let Them Steal Your Inventions

Harvard Business Review

For instance, Apple filed applications for the original iPhone only four days before it was announced in 2007; for the original iPod in 2001, the filing was one day before release. Like clockwork, it would wait until just before unveiling a new product design to file a corresponding design patent application. All’s well that ends well.

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Your Smartphone Works for the Surveillance State

Harvard Business Review

There has been a dramatic shift in mentality, and it doesn''t take much to work out the date on which this happened: September 11, 2001. Europe — yes, the former home of East Germany — bravely proposed a series of changes to its laws that would enshrine the privacy of its citizens.

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Why We Build Fiscal Cliffs

Harvard Business Review

After that the Bush administration and a Republican-majority Congress decided in 2001 to effectively set paygo aside. Then there's the Byrd rule , a measure first proposed by Senator Robert Byrd in 1985 that was intended to stem a growing tendency to put everything through reconciliation. And there's the Budget Control Act of 2011.