Monthly Archives: March 2016

The women’s soccer pay scandal isn’t just about players

The U.S. Soccer Federation is clearly underpaying both its women players and its women’s coaches.

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The Pushing People Out Edition

Slate Money on free trade, gentrification, and the Credit Suisse fiasco.

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The artist whose painting got her dumped by Charles Schwab

Selling your art for money? That’s fine. Putting that money in your brokerage account? Also fine. But turning your brokerage account into art—that’s apparently over the line.

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The Screwed Pooch Edition

Slate Money on the Bangladeshi bank heist, Valeant’s tanking share price, and Bridgewater’s people problem.

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The presidential primary system is fundamentally undemocratic

Next time you rub your eyes and wonder how on earth this racist nutjob is going to become the Republican presidential candidate, remind yourself that it’s not democracy which put him in that position. Rather, it’s the lack of it.

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The Professional Identity Edition

Slate Money with Stacey Vanek Smith on buying citizenship, the lack of women on investor boards, and why we work so much.

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The Brain in a VAT Edition

Slate Money on tampon taxes, value-added taxes, and the weird way the U.S. does sales tax.

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It’s good news that Google’s self-driving car caused an accident

A zero-accident car is no car at all.

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