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the debtpocolypse
Jan. 22, 2013
Unimpeded by Setbacks, the CEO Debt Fixers March On
Fix the Debt didn’t fix the debt. Now what?
By
Kevin Roose
white men with money
Jan. 22, 2013
Jamie Dimon Is Living in Fear of a Lloyd Blankfein Crank Call
The CEO sleeps with one eye open.
By
Kevin Roose
wall street
Jan. 22, 2013
Hedge-Fund Billionaire Lets His Inner Theater Geek Loose
David Tepper has a song in his heart.
By
Kevin Roose
game over
Jan. 21, 2013
Pong-Maker Atari Files for Bankruptcy
A company that began with a hit game 40 years ago is struggling.
By
Kevin Roose
bad apple
Jan. 21, 2013
Burglar Who Broke Into Steve Jobs’s House Gets Seven Years
Kariem McFarlin will be spending some time in prison.
By
Kevin Roose
davos 2013
Jan. 21, 2013
Corporate Executives Jet Off to Davos As Their Companies Suffer
Why should tough times keep the global elite away from their annual Alpine visit?
By
Kevin Roose
Jan. 18, 2013
Private Equity Titans Given Briefing on Their Pending Takeover of Antarctica
By penguins!
By
Kevin Roose
Jan. 18, 2013
Take the ‘Good Quarter/Bad Quarter’ Bank Quiz!
Guess the sentiment, based on the canned CEO quote.
By
Kevin Roose
hedgistan
Jan. 17, 2013
Turns Out ‘Black Edge’ Is a Hedge-Fund Term, Not a Fungal Disease
Two new profiles of the Most Interesting Man in Connecticut.
By
Kevin Roose
white men with acronyms
Jan. 17, 2013
Barclays CEO Has a Turnaround Plan and It Involves Witty Acronyms
LOL, WTF.
By
Kevin Roose
whale fail
Jan. 16, 2013
Did Ina Drew Deserve the Boot After All?
A counter-narrative emerges.
By
Kevin Roose
white men with not as much money as they claim
Jan. 16, 2013
Banker Bonus-Comparing App Is Filled With Lies
Why wouldn’t it be?
By
Kevin Roose
Jan. 16, 2013
Banks Make Money; Jamie Dimon Makes Slightly Less Money
How will Jamie Dimon get by on $11.5 mil?
By
Kevin Roose
zuck’d
Jan. 15, 2013
The Applefication of Facebook
Facebook is learning to act its size.
By
Kevin Roose
zuck’d
Jan. 15, 2013
Facebook Rolls Out New, Creeper-Friendly Search Engine
It’s called “graph search.”
By
Kevin Roose
the perils of high-tech
Jan. 15, 2013
Phone Location Glitch Makes Las Vegas Man Really, Really Popular
But he’s not happy about it.
By
Kevin Roose
white men with money
Jan. 15, 2013
Manhattan Is Getting More and More Hedge-Fundy
Take that, Greenwich.
By
Kevin Roose
masters of the mew-niverse
Jan. 14, 2013
The Best Stock-Picker on Wall Street Is a Cat
Of course.
By
Kevin Roose
white men with slightly less money
Jan. 14, 2013
A Better Way to Punish Jamie Dimon
Cutting Dimon’s bonus won’t matter to him; instead, his board should push for better disclosures.
By
Kevin Roose
hellspawn
Jan. 11, 2013
People Terrified by Giant Squid Have Hedge-Fund Manager Ray Dalio to Thank
He owns the submarine that found it.
By
Kevin Roose
ink-stained wretches
Jan. 11, 2013
Time Inc. Is Preparing a Bunch of Layoffs
Between 500 and 700, to be specific.
By
Kevin Roose
white men with money
Jan. 11, 2013
Breaking: Wall Street Bank Is a Sausage-Fest
Citigroup is heavy on Y-chromosomes.
By
Kevin Roose
bankstas
Jan. 11, 2013
Separating Good Banks From Bad Banks in Two Easy Words
“Secular” and “cyclical.”
By
Kevin Roose
private iniquity
Jan. 10, 2013
California Teachers’ Pension Votes to Shun Gun Money
CalSTRS is getting out of its firearms investments.
By
Kevin Roose
white men with extremely literal motivation tactics
Jan. 10, 2013
Morgan Stanley CEO Forces Profit-Starved Executives to Violate Personal Bubbles
James Gorman is using small rooms to get his points across.
By
Kevin Roose
white men with money and nutrient shakes
Jan. 10, 2013
Derpalife: How a Health-Supplement Company Became a Hedge-Fund Pissing Match
What is the Ackman-Loeb Herbalife feud really about?
By
Kevin Roose
things that are not real
Jan. 10, 2013
New York
Post
Gives Anthony Weiner a Fake Wall Street Job [Updated]
The ex-congressman is still unemployed.
By
Kevin Roose
penmanship
Jan. 9, 2013
Jack Lew’s Terrible Signature May Grace Dollar Bills Now
Obama’s Treasury secretary pick is a penmanship disaster waiting to happen.
By
Kevin Roose
ai-gee thanks
Jan. 8, 2013
AIG Might Thank America for Bailout by Suing the Government
The company could join a shareholder lawsuit against its rescuer.
By
Joe Coscarelli
jobs day
Jan. 4, 2013
Final Jobs Report of 2012 Comes With No Surprises
The economy added 155,000 jobs, and unemployment is at 7.8 percent.
By
Joe Coscarelli
dispatches from silicon valley
Dec. 26, 2012
The Commuter Kings: Riding Along on Silicon Valley’s Exclusive Shuttles
How do the titans of tech get to work?
By
Kevin Roose
public apologies
Dec. 24, 2012
A Public Apology to Codecademy
Sorry I never opened your e-mails.
By
Kevin Roose
groin-thrusting incidents
Dec. 24, 2012
Groin-Thrusting Venture Capitalist Gets Off
(Not like that.)
By
Kevin Roose
the robot revolution
Dec. 24, 2012
Wall Street This Week Is Basically a Bunch of Robots
Merry Christmas, algos!
By
Kevin Roose
private iniquity
Dec. 21, 2012
Can Pension Funds Be the Soul of Private Equity?
They’re waking up to their own power.
By
Kevin Roose
things that make us sad
Dec. 20, 2012
The New York Stock Exchange Is (Sort of) Moving to Atlanta
What? How could this happen?
By
Kevin Roose
white men with rightful claims to money
Dec. 19, 2012
Give William Bryan Jennings His Bonus
A humble plea to Morgan Stanley.
By
Kevin Roose
liborgate
Dec. 19, 2012
UBS Li-Bros Were Amazing at Rigging Interest Rates, Horrible at Spelling
Superman, Captain Caos [
sic
], and other new members of Wall Street’s VIP rate-rigging club.
By
Kevin Roose
nassim nicholas taleb
Dec. 18, 2012
Nassim Nicholas Taleb Will Crush Nerds and Bureaucrats Between His Massive Pecs
He’s not a fan of Tom Friedman, either.
By
Kevin Roose
dumb things on the internet
Dec. 18, 2012
Why Are You Freaking Out About Instagram’s New Privacy Policy?
Do you even know how the Internet works?
By
Kevin Roose
gun control
Dec. 18, 2012
Major Gun-Maker to Be Sold Following Newtown Massacre [Updated]
Cerberus Capital Management wants out of the business.
By
Kevin Roose
gun control
Dec. 17, 2012
Newtown: Follow the Money
Will investors in big firearms companies start to ask questions?
By
Kevin Roose
the social media wars
Dec. 17, 2012
The Twitter-Facebook Rivalry Is Here to Stay
Round one, fight!
By
Kevin Roose
Dec. 14, 2012
Europe’s Bizarre Bonus-Capping Plan
Europe’s leaders want to cap bonuses at banks. It could backfire.
By
Kevin Roose
liborgate
Dec. 14, 2012
Bank May Plead Guilty to Something for Once
UBS is about to break the no-criminal-charges precedent.
By
Kevin Roose
dangerous vcaisons
Dec. 13, 2012
Marc Andreessen Denies the Existence of the Middle Class
Silicon Valley’s most powerful venture capitalist is more than a provocateur.
By
Kevin Roose
google rave
Dec. 13, 2012
New Google Maps App: A Good Innovation That Is Bad for Innovation
I like it, but I don’t like it.
By
Kevin Roose
club fed
Dec. 12, 2012
The Fed Puts on Its Superman Cape and Decides to Fix Unemployment
The central bank implemented the so-called Evans Rule.
By
Kevin Roose
Dec. 12, 2012
Former Romney Adviser Taken Down by Keynesian CNBC Prop
Glenn Hubbard had an ouchie.
By
Kevin Roose
bonus wars
Dec. 12, 2012
In Defense of the Wall Street Bonus
It’s the best way to pay people, even if the amounts are outrageous.
By
Kevin Roose
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