"They can buy, sell, share or put a call virtually to any stock, bond or currency in the world, they can do it from their basement, and they can do it with information that in the past brokers would only give to their clients for a charge, " says Thomas L Friedman, of the New York Times, author of a book on globalisation.

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Thomas L. Friedman is an op-ed columnist for The New York Times.

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Yes, Thomas L. Friedman, it is a 401(k) world.

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New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman will moderate.

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The only comment I heard from Balsillie about his business was when The New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman was introducing him and said he guessed half the Davos crowd had blackberries.

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Some journalists, such as Thomas L. Friedman, of the Times, earn more if one factors in speeches and books, but when, recently, Mossberg signed a four-year contract, two Journal sources told me, his annual compensation approached a million dollars.

NEWYORKER: Critical Mass

The Center for Security Policy today welcomed the insightful -- albeit astonishingly belated -- assessment of the state of U.S.-Soviet cooperation on the Persian Gulf crisis published on the front page of yesterday's New York Times by reporter Thomas L. Friedman.

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