Business Beast: America's Epic Beer Battle

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1 TITANS America's Epic Beer Battle The 150-year family dynasty that controlled Anheuser-Busch lived in a soap opera as sudsy as their product. Daniel Gross on a new book chronicling their rise and fall. Read it at The Daily Beast

2 COOKING THE BOOKS Assets in Name Only Pension word games. What's the point? Megan McArdle reports. Read it at The Daily Beast 4 RETAIL Merry Christmas to Me! There's no shame in the epidemic of self-gifting. By Daniel Gross. Read it at The Daily Beast The federal agency in charge of regulating and supervising credit unions has filed a $3.6 billion lawsuit today against JPMorgan Chase in federal court in Kansas." READ IT NOW › 5 WORTH A LOOK Week's Best Business Reads From what one journalist learned from 'The Economist' to the dark side of a fondly remembered banker, we pick the best business journalism of the week. Read it at The Daily Beast 3 BLING Big Rocks are Back What's driving the surge in giant gems? By Lauren Streib. Read it at The Daily Beast The Number: 67 12 Videogame Movie Flops In response to Assets in Name Only: The problem with the trust fund accounting is that gives the appearance that SS is fine and needs no alterations until the trust fund is empty on an accounting basis.  People like Drum use it in exactly this manner, and this is the error.  The effect of SS on the general fund is unaltered whether or not you have a trust fund- the payroll taxes collected either pay for all or part of the SS outlays, or they don't.  When they don't, the general fund pays the difference. — Yancey Ward In response to Walmart: Fiscal Cliff Loser: This is such elementary stuff. Most of the one percenters would not even know about their increases in taxes unless their accountants mentioned it. — karenz20

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