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Don’t speculate with your home

Slate Money on Aereo’s Supreme Court loss, and rich people flocking to Puerto Rico

Spectrum has been gifted to media groups eager to cash in on what is free, writes Felix Salmon

How U.S. Courts Are Upending International Finance

Slate Money on Amazon’s new phone, the effect of the crisis in Iraq on the oil market, and Argentina’s loss at the Supreme Court

Slate Money on Uber vs. Europe, Time Warner’s magazine spinoff, and Larry Summers’ favorite book

The media mogul (twice over) on being both contagious and sticky

The physical manifestation of r>g

Maybe not quite as well as Uber would have you think

Slate Money on Judge Jed Rakoff, the European Central Bank, and the saga of billionaire Steven A. Cohen

Economic lessons from Brazil

What we are seeing is unapologetic American exceptionalism, manifesting as extraterritorial powermongering

What’s the ratio between my pay and that of my highest-paid employee?

What happens when cab drivers stop being employees and start being sole proprietors

I left Reuters, and I’m not sure when or whether I’m going to have any kind of regular blog at Fusion. And in my new promiscuous life, it’s not going to be very easy to keep track of everything I’m … Continue reading →

Read “Why can’t nerds break news instead of just explaining it?” by James Ball on News Genius

“Breaking news is the most masturbating thing journalists do” – @felixsalmon, Fusion #ijf14 pic.twitter.com/Pu5elT6XRz — journalism festival (@journalismfest) April 30, 2014 This quote is beginning to get some press attention, so I ought to correct the record: I said “masturbatory”, … Continue reading →

After the wine contest and the Pinot contest, last night was the Merlot contest. And boy did passions run lower. I thought that there would be many more really bad wines, just because people don’t really know the grape, and … Continue reading →

Merry Christmas to you. As for me, all I want for Christmas is… …a very simple WYSIWYG HTML editor. Why can’t I find one? I spend most of my days writing blog entries. Mostly it’s just text inside <p> tags, … Continue reading →

I have to admit I’m a bit vague on the specifics of what happened in the LTCM blow-up. In my mind, it has always been inextricably linked with Russia’s debt default, although this many years later I’m not even sure … Continue reading →

Deep breath… and… subprime mortgages! It’s almost impossible, but let’s try to be dispassionate here, in contrast to the hyperbole of, say, Nouriel Roubini. First, where’s the risk? A huge chunk of it resides at mortgage insurers, two of which … Continue reading →

Gearbox has returned! It was launched as a vehicle for Mickey Kaus to blog about cars in 2001. He managed one entry that year, followed by another one at the end of 2002. 2003 was the golden year for Gearbox: … Continue reading →

In an attempt to stay young ‘n’ trendy, Phillips de Pury has launched a new auction series called Saturday @ Phillips. The idea is that it’s an entry-level auction, for people who don’t have hundreds or even tens of thousands … Continue reading →

Not only does New York have a Puppet Lending Library, but it’s in the Grand Arch at Prospect Park! Yes, as in inside the arch. It’s open Saturdays from noon to 4pm, and occasionally there are even performances in the … Continue reading →

So there’s tons of news about Apple’s battery recall, which involves Apple replacing either 1.1 million or 1.8 million Sony batteries. Obviously the source for all this news is Apple itself. But there’s nothing on the apple homepage, nothing on … Continue reading →