Monthly Archives: February 2016

The Breaking the Law Edition

Slate Money with Guan Yang on Apple and the FBI, Sci-Hub, and Argentina.

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Nike founder Phil Knight’s $400 million gift to Stanford is philanthropy at its worst

Rarely has so much personal money been spent on something as nebulous and vapid as this.

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I’m British—so why can’t I vote in the most important British election in years?

The most committed British Europeans—the ones who have made their home elsewhere in the EU for more than 15 years—will have no say in the referendum whatsoever.

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The Too Big to Fail Edition

Slate Money with Neil Irwin on Neel Kashkari’s plan to break up the banks.

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President Trump: Here’s how it happens

Unthinkable? Think again.

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The End of the World as We Know It Edition

Slate Money with Mohamed El-Erian on the future of our economy, technocrats vs. democracy, and the role of central banks.

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Why messaging is the future of the news brand

Messaging apps have already overtaken social networks in terms of global popularity.

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High oil prices and low oil prices are both bad for the environment—here’s why

What we need is the combination of high prices for consumers, along with low prices for producers.

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What SoFi’s baffling Super Bowl ad tells us about our unequal economy

It divvies up the world into the “great” and the “not great,” with most people finding themselves in the latter category.

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Bernie Sanders has the edge in the Democratic fight over Wall Street money

Clinton is an incrementalist candidate who is going to be broadly acceptable to Wall Street.

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The New Money Edition

Slate Money on a cashless future, Viacom’s aging patriarch, and the Credit Suisse profit loss.

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