Monthly Archives: December 2015

Financial startups are getting an edge by growing up

In Beatles terms, we’ve started moving from “you say you want a revolution” to “you tell me that it’s evolution.”

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The Stay Healthy Edition

Slate Money talks Obamacare, the economics of neglected diseases, and author Harold Pollack tells us about his financial guide The Index Card.

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Martin Shkreli did something not-terrible on his way to infamy

The lives of thousands of people with Chagas disease are likely to be utterly transformed.

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The Force Is With Janet Yellen Edition

Slate Money on the economics of the Star Wars franchise, how the Fed hiked interest rates, and the future of junk bonds.

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Why Sheldon Adelson and Jack Ma will regret buying their newspapers

Both will make enemies they’ve never had before.

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In 2016, annoying mobile ads will begin to fade away

Here’s a hopeful prediction for 2016: It will mark the point at which the sheer quantity of junky adtech encrustations on publishers’ sites will start going down rather than up.

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We have officially reached the end of the financial crisis

We’re reverting, slowly, to some approximation of normality. That, surely, is something to celebrate.

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The Mega-Merger Edition

Slate Money discusses the acquisition of Keurig Green Mountain, Yahoo’s struggles, and the merger of Dow Chemical and DuPont.

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How Hollywood made the financial crisis entertaining

This isn’t a movie for finance nerds.

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The World-Changing Edition

We unpack the financial crisis with The Big Short’s Adam Davidson.

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Mark Zuckerberg wants to change the world, again. You got a problem with that?

He’s doing his very best. And Mark Zuckerberg, at his best, is pretty formidable.

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How the world’s young people feel about their economic prospects

They’re surprisingly optimistic.

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A better way to give on Giving Tuesday

It’s worth slicing up your giving into its component parts.

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