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Democracies are on track to lose their global economic dominance as ‘authoritarian capitalism’ rises

Within five years at current trends autocratic countries will account for more than half of global income for the first time in more than a century.

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High demand for Child Benefit loans, say credit unions

Thousands more families are relying on borrowing against their benefits for budgeting.

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Turkey fires central bank governor as policy differences deepen

Turkey on Saturday fired its central bank governor and replaced him with the bank’s deputy governor, a presidential decree published on the official gazette showed.

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California assessing damage after biggest earthquake in 20 years

A magnitude 7.1 earthquake shook Southern California on Friday, triggering fires, buckling part of a highway, damaging buildings but causing few reported injuries.

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Feds seek $12.6 billion in drug money from ‘El Chapo’

The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Brooklyn asked a judge Friday to order Joaquin Guzman to forfeit that massive sum.

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Privacy-first browsers look to take the shine off Google’s Chrome

Microsoft and Firefox are two of a number of companies and organizations looking to take a piece out of Google, NBC News reports.

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Amazon at 25: The story of a giant

The online giant is now the second-largest company in the world. We look at its success in charts.

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Greek debt crisis: ‘I wasn’t paid for two years’

With Greek voters set to go to the polls, how did two entrepreneurs battle through austerity?

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Here’s how criminals use stolen passport information

Passport data sells in three formats on the darkweb, digital scans, templates for creating a finished passport and actual physical passports.

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Amazon lessons from the last 25 years, according to one of its most bullish analysts

D.A. Davidson’s Tom Forte, one of the most bullish analysts on Amazon, says the company’s customer obsessions is its most important quality.