Monthly Archives: August 2016

Don’t blame Airbnb for ruining your hidden paradise. Blame the golden age of tourism.

Everybody hates a tourist.

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The Worse Than Marxism Edition

Slate Money on why we should be outraged at the makers of EpiPen, passive investing, and hedge funds.

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The Product Edition

Slate Money on 21st-century products: Google search, the iPhone, and Amazon Prime.

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The subtle, dangerous way Donald Trump has changed American political discourse

Trump and his kin have effectively rotated the axis upon which we place political candidates.

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The Onanism Edition

Slate Money on hedge funds, declining U.S. productivity, and vagina technology innovations.

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Donald Trump’s most respectable economic idea is still amazingly bad

In general, it’s a good idea to tax things you want less of, like tobacco, or wealth inequality.

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The Scuttlebutt Edition

Slate Money on rumored and definite changes at Walmart and Uber, and to Massachusetts law.

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How the Donald Trump campaign is weaponizing a left-wing internet crank

If that isn’t treason, it’s very close.

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Uber’s reported merger with Didi could mean the end of incredibly cheap fares

So long as Uber has been losing money, it’s essentially been subsidizing the transportation needs of everybody who uses it. But that won’t last forever. Indeed, it probably ended today.

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