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job offer
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Iced
Coffee is at its cheapest in three years (but your latte isn’t)
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designer genes
Why are we giving away the most valuable part of the human body?
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spare a square
Venezuela’s grand plan to fix its toilet-paper shortage: $79 million and a warning to stop eating so much
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Next year’s Winter Olympics are being held in just about the most unsafe place they could be
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Silver moonbeam
Greens are blue about Brown raiding their gold to keep California in the black
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How exactly would Mike Bloomberg “fucking destroy” the taxi industry?
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Eggsistential joy
At the altar of the Big Green Egg: How a product becomes a cult
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Lafley needs to rebuild P&G’s bench of talent so the firm won’t face a crisis when he leaves
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US businesses still look pretty cautious on spending
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Reports of a Chinese cap on carbon emissions are inaccurate—or perhaps just premature
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no world order
Free information, as great as it sounds, will enslave us all
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Vanilla Android
HTC needs to blow us away with smartphone hardware, and forget the rest
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Why Chinese college graduates aren’t getting jobs
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German and French business confidence rise—but the gulf between Germany and everyone else continues
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Bill Ackman scores a win, finally, with P&G shakeup
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mind games
The secret to getting engineers to be more charismatic
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Flashpoints
These tiny islands, reefs, and shoals are driving much of Asia to the brink of war
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Meet the only company that still thinks a manned spacecraft should fly back to earth
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North Korea sanctions may force NGOs to carry sacks of cash over the border
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This unprofitable digital video advertising company is going for broke with an IPO
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Comeback Kids
At ailing firms, the new guy is the old guy
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Why Paul Tudor Jones’ theory that women aren’t good traders if they have babies is scientifically unsound
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Hai
Square picks an auspicious moment to enter Japan’s changing market
A blast from the past. AP Photo/Lai Seng Sin
The year 2012′s best trades, worst government decisions, top censored stories, and other highlights
At Quartz we’ve been compiling lists of some of the highlights of the year gone by. Here are some of them (and you can check back for new ones at qz.com/re/2012).
Wall Street’s best trades of 2012
Wall Street’s worst trades of 2012
The top-selling art works at auction in 2012
The five most disruptive technologies of 2012
The eight most disruptive events of 2012
Disrupt this: The most misused word in 2012
The seven most misguided growth-killing government decisions of 2012
China’s four silliest economic stimulus projects of 2012
The top five stories China’s censors blocked in 2012—and the sex tape they let through
Five favorite charts of 2012 you won’t see in other year-end round-ups
