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summers of our discontent
Sept. 16, 2013
Was Larry Summers’s Fed Flop the End of America’s Most Powerful Economic Clique?
The Rubinites stare into the abyss.
By
Kevin Roose
twitter on twitter
Sept. 13, 2013
How Twitter Insiders Celebrated the Company’s Surprise IPO Announcement
With Champagne and humblebrags.
By
Kevin Roose
fi-cri retrospective
Sept. 13, 2013
Yes, Wall Street Has Changed Since Lehman Went Bust
The fi-cri cynics are ignoring reality.
By
Kevin Roose
twitter on twitter
Sept. 12, 2013
Twitter Files for Supersecret IPO
Then blabs about it on Twitter.
By
Kevin Roose
bad apple
Sept. 10, 2013
Will Apple Touch ID Make Fingerprints Happen?
Or will it flop like its predecessors?
By
Kevin Roose
Sept. 9, 2013
Class Warfare Inside Goldman Sachs
Employees who aren’t millionaires are no longer allowed to bank with Goldman.
By
Kevin Roose
adstagram
Sept. 9, 2013
Yep, Your Instagram Feed Will Be Full of Ads Soon
Now brunch photos will be sponsored by Tropicana.
By
Kevin Roose
term sheets are the new term papers
Sept. 5, 2013
Stanford Is Now Basically a Venture-Capital Fund With Some Dorms
It’s giving money to student start-ups now.
By
Kevin Roose
watch waiters
Sept. 5, 2013
Sorry, the Future of Computing Is Not on Your Wrist
No matter how cool Samsung’s smartwatch is.
By
Kevin Roose
the tech wars
Sept. 3, 2013
Microsoft Bought Nokia in a Desperate Attempt to Avoid Becoming BlackBerry
Android and iOS are probably unstoppable. But Microsoft has to try.
By
Kevin Roose
the racie for gracie
Aug. 31, 2013
Bill Thompson Sometimes Invested City Money in Donors’ Firms While Comptroller
According to a New York
Times
report.
By
Caroline Bankoff
business tv blues
Aug. 29, 2013
Nobody Watches Business TV Anymore
CNBC’s ratings are at a twenty-year low.
By
Kevin Roose
out of comptrol
Aug. 29, 2013
Wall Street Hates Eliot Spitzer So Much It Raised $1,200 to Defeat Him
Yep, that should do it.
By
Kevin Roose
office life
Aug. 28, 2013
The 7 Kinds of E-mail Vacation Auto-Responders Everyone Hates
Don’t do any of these.
By
Kevin Roose
club fed
Aug. 27, 2013
No, Raj Rajaratnam Isn’t in a ‘Luxury Prison’
Because luxury prisons don’t exist.
By
Kevin Roose
treasury tomes
Aug. 26, 2013
Do Not Judge Tim Geithner’s Book by Its Cover
Because it is a bad cover.
By
Kevin Roose
white men with money and gleaming shoes
Aug. 26, 2013
Wall Street’s Shoeshine Nostalgia
Ah, the old days!
By
Kevin Roose
yahoooo!
Aug. 24, 2013
Six Things We Learned From Business Insider’s Massive Marissa Mayer Story
She almost deleted her first e-mail from Google.
By
Caroline Bankoff
Aug. 23, 2013
Memo to Tim Cook: Don’t Pull a Ballmer
The Microsoft CEO’s failure should be a lesson to Apple’s chief.
By
Kevin Roose
wall street woes
Aug. 22, 2013
NASDAQ Decided to Take the Afternoon Off
August, you know?
By
Kevin Roose
twitter tales
Aug. 21, 2013
Twitter Wants Everyone to Chill About Its IPO
Good luck with that.
By
Kevin Roose
burn it all down and let’s start over
Aug. 21, 2013
Tech Entrepreneur Offers Coding Lessons to Homeless Guy, Solves Poverty
Who knew it was that easy?
By
Kevin Roose
wall street lives
Aug. 21, 2013
Will a Dead Bank of America Intern Change Wall Street’s Pledge-Class Culture?
A death from overwork is terrifying Wall Street.
By
Kevin Roose
odd future
Aug. 20, 2013
The Internet of Things Taught My Dog to Text
And other adventures with a new platform called SmartThings.
By
Kevin Roose
white men with money
Aug. 19, 2013
Phil Falcone Banned From Trading for Five Years
He’ll have to take up hobbies.
By
Kevin Roose
the sexconomy
Aug. 19, 2013
No-Frill Thrills: The Rise of Minimalist Sex Apps
As online daters tire of flirting, a new generation of cut-to-the-chase apps is flourishing.
By
Kevin Roose
white men with money
Aug. 19, 2013
Warren Buffett Will Buy You Dinner If You Make Him $5 Billion
It’s easy!
By
Kevin Roose
bling different
Aug. 19, 2013
A Gold iPhone Is (Probably) Coming Soon
And people say Apple’s innovation died with Steve Jobs!
By
Kevin Roose
silicon waaaah-ley
Aug. 16, 2013
Tech Bro’s Blog Post Turns All of San Francisco Against Him
Peter Shih, soon-to-be-ex-Californian.
By
Kevin Roose
the london whale
Aug. 14, 2013
The London Whale’s Bizarre Escape
Bruno Iksil is avoiding charges by throwing his colleagues under the bus.
By
Kevin Roose
white men with money
Aug. 13, 2013
Carl Icahn Is Basically Just Live-Tweeting His Phone Calls Now
His tweet about Apple sent the stock zooming.
By
Kevin Roose
white men with money and no personalities
Aug. 13, 2013
Wall Street Is Being Overrun by Boring Duds
Being unremarkable is now a selling point.
By
Kevin Roose
white men with money
Aug. 13, 2013
Elon Musk’s Hyperloop Is a Political Manifesto, Not Just a Tech Trick
He’s saying, “We can do the government’s job better than it can.”
By
Kevin Roose
odd future
Aug. 12, 2013
Elon Musk’s Nonexistent Hyperloop Sounds Pretty Cool
It’s a pneumatic tube, but for people.
By
Kevin Roose
let them eat snake
Aug. 12, 2013
Goldman’s Snake Cake
It’s a snake, wearing a panama hat.
By
Kevin Roose
leaning in
Aug. 11, 2013
Sheryl Sandberg Sold a Little Facebook Stock for a Lot of Money
Cue the “leaning in” to piles of cash jokes.
By
Delia Paunescu
made-off
Aug. 10, 2013
Bernie Madoff’s Office Was Even Sleazier Than Previously Thought
He was involved in a “love triangle” with an employee.
By
Caroline Bankoff
the surveillance-free day
Aug. 9, 2013
The Surveillance-Free Day (Part III)
In which Kevin uncovers the catch-22 of his mission.
By
Kevin Roose
the racie for gracie
Aug. 8, 2013
Meet Jack Hidary, New York’s Dot-Com Mayoral Candidate
We speak with the man who wants to make New York City work like a start-up.
By
Kevin Roose
fraudulent fab
Aug. 1, 2013
Fabulous Fab Goes Down
The ex–Goldman Sachs trader is liable on six of seven counts for defrauding investors.
By
Kevin Roose
silicon wahhhh-ley
Aug. 1, 2013
Mean Bloggers Forced Sean Parker to Cancel His Honeymoon
You monsters.
By
Kevin Roose
zuck’d
Aug. 1, 2013
Facebook Is Too Big to Fail
The social network just can’t lose.
By
Kevin Roose
the surveillance-free day
July 31, 2013
The Surveillance-Free Day (Part II)
Kevin continues his quest to leave the grid for 24 hours.
By
Kevin Roose
the surveillance-free day
July 29, 2013
The Surveillance-Free Day (Part I)
What happens when an average person tries to escape the government’s eye?
By
Kevin Roose
crimes and misdemeanors
July 28, 2013
Steve Cohen Partied Through SAC Capital’s Criminal Indictment
Or right after it, anyway.
By
Caroline Bankoff
the stamford massacre
July 25, 2013
It’s Doomsday for SAC Capital
Steve Cohen’s mega-fund may not survive its grand jury indictment.
By
Kevin Roose
fed up
July 24, 2013
The Fed Chairmanship Race Is a Bad Romantic Comedy
President Obama has to choose between the charismatic jerk and the quiet hero.
By
Kevin Roose
dread pirate bitcoin
July 23, 2013
‘Bitcoin Savings and Trust’ Was a Ponzi Scheme
It was run by a guy named “Pirate.”
By
Kevin Roose
the pursuit of happierness
July 23, 2013
There Is a Social Network Exclusively for Happy People
“Happier is a beautiful way to collect and share happy moments you find in everyday life.”
By
Kevin Roose
the xxx-pulsion
July 22, 2013
The U.K.’s Porn Purge Is a Fascinating Behavioral Economics Experiment
David Cameron is trying to nudge porn out of kids’ hands.
By
Kevin Roose
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