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Alibaba's Jack Ma Fights To Win Back Trust
Gady Epstein
Setting things right after a scandal at China's largest e-commerce company.


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Features

The Business Of Baseball
Edited by Kurt Badenhausen, Michael K. Ozanian and Christina Settimi
Average team values rise to an all-time high, but the Dodgers' and Mets' problems threaten to hurt the rest of MLB

The Billionaire Behind L'Occitane's Asian Expansion
Clare O'Connor
How Austrian Reinold Geiger led a French firm to dominate the Asian skin-care industry.

Is The Muni Bond Crisis Overblown?
Matt Schifrin and John Dobosz
A Forbes.com roundtable discussion among our staff, our contributors and our readers.

  Fact and Comment


How to Get Japan's Sun To Rise Again

Steve Forbes
Not one in a million Japanese today would know the name Ishibashi Tanzan. Too bad. His spirit is what Japan needs now to guide its immense reconstruction efforts.

Current Events



Fundraiser's Scandal Reveals Deep Corruption of NPR

Amity Shlaes
Unparalleled authority.

Digital Rules


Self-Help: The Great American Religion

Rich Karlgaard
Born to create.


Departments
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Entrepreneurs

Why Minority Entrepreneurs Matter In America
Maureen Farrell
Rene Diaz rode the Hispanic immigration wave to a $200 million food-distribution business in Atlanta.





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Technology

Adobe Is Watching Every Click
Quentin Hardy
Adobe products create the Web. They might as well track it, too.

Review: The Nintendo 3DS
David M. Ewalt
The new Nintendo 3DS will have you spinning in your chair like a kid.



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Capital Flows

Why the Gold Standard Still Matters Today
Nathan Lewis
A gold standard does not place some artificial limit on the supply of money.





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Retirement Guide

The Inheritors
Ashlea Ebeling
Advice to baby boomers on spending their $8.4 trillion inheritance.

Writing New Chapters
Kerry Hannon
Four people who did not retire to a life of golf or gardening.

Second Flight
Christopher Steiner
A broadcasting tycoon returns to his family's aviation roots.

Ten Ways To Beat Inflation
William Baldwin
You can buy protection, but it will cost you.

Password Protection
Deborah L. Jacobs
Your family, not hackers, needs access to your financial data.

Pension Hunting
William P. Barrett
How to get all the retirement benefits you've earned.

The Golden Age Of Trading
Emily Lambert
The number of retirees trading actively online is growing.

A Dummy's Guide to 401(k)s
William Baldwin
Bewildered? Just follow these rules.

Portfolio Strategy | Buying Hipsters And Nerds
Ken Fisher
Seek technology consumers for stock gains.

Investment Strategies | Speculators Have Discovered Palladium and Sugar
William Baldwin
Instead of ETFs, buy firms that sell them.

The Contrarian | Inflation Heats Up: Stay Cool in Value Stocks
David Dreman
The greatest risk is not stock volatility.

The Best Retirement Places
William P. Barrett and Ashlea Ebeling
We looked at living costs, taxes, weather, opportunities to stay active, doctors, crime and more to find 16 top retirement cities.

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Forbes Focus

Japan's Roady To Recovery
Christopher Helman, Neil Weinberg and Jon Bruner
The repercussions of the tragedy are rippling around the globe. But they won't include the demise of Japan's economy or nuclear power.

Card Shuffler
Zack O'Malley Greenburg
Big banks want a piece of the prepaid debit card business dominated by Green Dot. Founder Steven Streit, a former DJ, says bring it on.

Steal This E-Book
Jon Bruner
Tech publisher Tim O'Reilly has turned his $100 million O'Reilly Media into an e-book power--while rejecting antipiracy measures.

Trading Places
Emily Lambert
Do we need a new stock exchange to help small companies raise capital? A former Nasdaq executive thinks so.

Tax Dodger
Eric Savitz
Under fire from the states, Amazon will thrive anyway.



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Forbes Life

High, Thin & Handsome
Daniel Fisher
Exhilarating--and punishing--the J-Class sails again.

High Fashion Lowdown
Hannah Elliott
Five trends from this spring's shows men can actually love.



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