Business Beast - The Real ‘Downton’ Heiresses

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1 Old Money Dollar Princesses Pretty much every aristocratic family in Britain has an American connection. In Newsweek, Daisy Goodwin on the U.S. heiresses who invaded England in the Edwardian era—and inspired the eye-popping excess of Shirley MacLaine's Martha Levinson on the new season of 'Downton Abbey.' Read it at The Daily Beast

2 Plastic AmEx Charges Backward The company is shedding 5,400 of its 63,500 employees and taking a number of charges that will halve its quarterly profits. Daniel Gross reports. Read it at The Daily Beast 4 World China's Labor Pains Will China ever reform its prison camps? Read it at The Daily Beast Apple has cut orders for the components of its iPhone 5, and it's probably due to weaker-than-expected demand. READ IT NOW › 5 Worth a Look Week's Best Biz Reads The man who thought of a $1 trillion coin, the one super-popular tablet that Apple isn't buying, and more. Read it at The Daily Beast 3 Aviation Dreamliner's Nightmare Boeing's new plane has airlines in a spin. Clive Irving reports. Read it at The Daily Beast The Russians Are Coming! Megan McArdle: Presidents Can't Fix the Economy! In response to Morgan Stanley's Backslide: they never should have allowed banking, investment and insurance to merge … didn't take long for the system to begin unraveling and unable to hold its own weight. — major tom to ground control In response to The Next Steve Jobs?: Is the headline for this article wildly overblown? Yes. Exploding windows and aggregating apps have already been done, years ago. There are already thousands of applications that make the Windows interface better and easier to use. — Park_2

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