Monthly Archives: July 2015

New Yorkers love Uber. But is Uber good for New York?

Uber spends millions of dollars on lobbyists, but politicians are far from convinced.

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Aby Rosen wants to kill the Four Seasons

An unforgivable act of cultural vandalism

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Why you can’t trust journalism

The best journalism out there is still just a single problematic sliver of the truth.

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The Public Exposure Edition

The Slate Money crew on the outing of adulterers, evil banks, and the sale of the FT.

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The Financial Times Will Be in Good Hands

Newspapers should be owned by news organizations.

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The Republican debate will be a clown show. Here’s how to fix it

The last thing we need is a personality contest where substance is an afterthought.

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Ad tech is killing the online experience

Advertising is making the mobile web almost unusable by clogging up our bandwidth – which may end up driving users to Apple News or Facebook apps

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The Greece Edition

Slate Money on the eurozone backstory, Greece’s failures, and what it means to have unsustainable debt.

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The Greece deal: Is this a coup?

The short answer is yes.

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The Technical Difficulties Edition

Slate Money discusses this week’s outage on Wall Street, the crash of the Chinese stock market, and the restaurant reservation industry.

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The Art of Porn

Guest host Felix Salmon explores how the art world is blurring the lines between art, pornography, and the law. (Text version of the Spiel is here)

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I haven’t been paying attention. Should I be worried about China’s stock market crash?

Here’s what you need to know

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You don’t need to panic about the New York Stock Exchange, or anything else

It’s only human to start seeing patterns in the news: in fact, it would be astonishing if we didn’t. But that doesn’t mean the patterns are really there.

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Why Greece should befriend its bitcoin foes

Bitcoin’s default stance of anarcho-libertarianism is not the only possible use to which blockchain technology can be put.

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The Wine Edition

Karl Storchmann of the Journal of Wine Economics discusses how wine ratings affect prices and how to decide what to spend on your bottle.

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All men should be drinking rosé this summer

It’s dry, it’s unpretentious, it goes with everything: it’s the perfect drink for any laid-back dude.

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