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yahooligans
July 22, 2013
Dan Loeb Decides a Billion-Ish Dollars Is Enough
The hedge-fund manager is cashing in, presumably going back to Gmail.
By
Kevin Roose
the tech wars
July 22, 2013
Silicon Valley’s Private Transportation Grid Is Taking Over
Politicians are caving to the private grid.
By
Kevin Roose
greenwich gods
July 19, 2013
SEC Charges Steve Cohen With Being a Bad Boss
“Failure to supervise” is all they’ve got.
By
Kevin Roose
stupid internet things
July 19, 2013
Why Are You Complaining About Gmail’s New Changes?
Look deep inside yourself. Change is good.
By
Kevin Roose
muni meltdown
July 18, 2013
Detroit Is Bankrupt
It’s the largest city in U.S. history to file for bankruptcy.
By
Kevin Roose
the tech wars
July 18, 2013
Let Tech Blogs Celebrate Start-Ups
PandoDaily’s Beachmint foul-up shows what happens when trade publications go adversarial.
By
Kevin Roose
warren’s wars
July 17, 2013
GOP: Warren’s Politburo Not So Bad
Richard Cordray’s confirmation as CFPB chief means that Warren’s long game is working.
By
Kevin Roose
white men with money
July 17, 2013
Jim Cramer Narcs on Wall Street’s Insider-Trading Snapchat Party
Preet Bharara now knows what it is.
By
Kevin Roose
spitzer’s thesaurus
July 16, 2013
Eliot Spitzer Thinks Everything Is Amazing and Brilliant
His e-book is a collection of amazing brilliance.
By
Kevin Roose
bankstas
July 16, 2013
Reminder: Don’t Pay Attention to Wall Street’s Whines About Regulation
They’re all doing fine.
By
Kevin Roose
white men with money and legal problems
July 15, 2013
Is This the Worst Ponzi Scheme Ever?
Pro-tip: avoid hedge-fund managers who tweet “Ching!” every time they make money.
By
Kevin Roose
goldman gods
July 15, 2013
Fabulous Fab’s Trial Is Main Street’s Last Chance for Crisis Catharsis
With Fabrice Tourre’s trial, the SEC has its last shot at punishing a banker for the housing collapse.
By
Kevin Roose
warren’s war
July 12, 2013
Elizabeth Warren’s Long Game Against Wall Street
Even longer than you think.
By
Kevin Roose
banker woes
July 11, 2013
European Bankers Forced to Stay at Holiday Inn, Endure Public Transportation
The horror!
By
Kevin Roose
always low wages
July 11, 2013
Washington, D.C., Won Its Fight With Walmart
The district’s politicians sacrificed jobs for local values. Good for them.
By
Kevin Roose
the tech wars
July 11, 2013
Silicon Valley’s Anti-Unionism, Now With a Side of Class Warfare
Opposition to unions among the tech elite is nothing new, but the hostility is.
By
Kevin Roose
goldman gods
July 11, 2013
This Is What It Looks Like to Meditate Outside Goldman Sachs
Max Zahn wants Goldmanites to know they’re loved.
By
Kevin Roose
comptrollin’
July 9, 2013
The Single Change Eliot Spitzer Could Make to Improve NYC’s Pension System
On day one, Comptroller Spitzer could start consolidating.
By
Kevin Roose
liborgate
July 9, 2013
LIBOR Sold
Got all that?
By
Kevin Roose
ficri nostalgia
July 8, 2013
S&P to AAA-Rated CDO Investors: Wait, You Believed Us?
The ratings agency says all that talk about investment-grade derivatives was “puffery.”
By
Kevin Roose
tech disruption
July 8, 2013
Google Interns Are Terrorizing Their Neighbors at a San Jose Apartment Complex
All-night parties, loud singing, and other disruption from Google’s young turks.
By
Kevin Roose
west coast dispatches
July 2, 2013
Transit Strike Shows the Dark Side of Silicon Valley’s Privatization Fetish
Let them use Uber.
By
Kevin Roose
my ears my ears
July 2, 2013
Former Groupon CEO Andrew Mason Is the Raffi of Dot-Com Flameouts
Andrew Mason releases the weirdest CEO-confessional album of the year.
By
Kevin Roose
the bitcoin economy
July 1, 2013
The Winklevoss Twins Are Starting a Bitcoin Fund
If that’s your kind of thing.
By
Kevin Roose
trouble in farmville
July 1, 2013
With New Zynga CEO, Mark Pincus’s Reign of Terror Is Over
Here are his greatest bad-management hits.
By
Kevin Roose
goldman gods
July 1, 2013
Guy Meditating Outside Goldman Sachs Is Having Trouble Getting His Om On
“At Goldman, it has been a lot more difficult to sustain continuous attention on the breath.”
By
Kevin Roose
rich nerds
June 28, 2013
How a 22-Year-Old Stanford Grad Won Silicon Valley’s Money Chase
Lucas Duplan’s success with Clinkle shows the university’s pull in Silicon Valley.
By
Kevin Roose
ancient history
June 28, 2013
The Fed Is Having a 1936 Moment
It can’t communicate with Wall Street.
By
Kevin Roose
tech rants
June 27, 2013
Sean Parker Writes 9,500-Word Manifesto
“But nothing is sacred on the Internet, not even a wedding.”
By
Kevin Roose
white men with money and clues
June 27, 2013
Goldman Sachs Sends Employees on $270,000 Scavenger Hunt
It raised $1.4 million for charity.
By
Kevin Roose
club fed
June 25, 2013
$1.2 Million in Federal Reserve–Bound Cash Stolen From JFK Plane
Quite the stimulus.
By
Kevin Roose
gross white men with money
June 25, 2013
Yahoo Shareholder Finds Worst Possible Way to Hit On Marissa Mayer [Updated]
“I’m a dirty old man and you look attractive.”
By
Kevin Roose
snapchats are forever
June 25, 2013
Apple Turns Snapchat Into a Privacy Nightmare
Screenshots galore! Uh-oh.
By
Kevin Roose
mf doom
June 25, 2013
Jon Corzine Is Probably Not Going to Jail
But he is going to get a civil lawsuit.
By
Kevin Roose
workplace faboos
June 24, 2013
6 Things You Can’t Do If You Work at Fab.com
The New York start-up is taking corporate sass to the next level.
By
Kevin Roose
the missing muni meltdown
June 22, 2013
Meredith Whitney Thinks You Should Move to Flyover Country
Coastal cities are pretty much a lost cause, the Wall Street celebrity says. North Dakota, on the other hand …
By
Kevin Roose
fed up
June 20, 2013
Why Did the Stock Market Fall Today?
The eternal question.
By
Kevin Roose
June 20, 2013
Instagram and Vine Are Making Us All Video Stars
Thanks to technological advances, we’re no longer confined to the tyranny of the still.
By
Kevin Roose
bitcoin mania
June 20, 2013
Bitcoin Sees the Grim Reaper
Mt. Gox trapping customers’ money could be the last straw for the virtual currency.
By
Kevin Roose
to taper or not to taper
June 19, 2013
Ben Bernanke Is Wall Street’s Security Blanket
His job has become reassuring the market.
By
Kevin Roose
the long arm of the lawsky
June 19, 2013
The Regulator Who’s Not Afraid of Wall Street
With his one-year ban against accounting giant Deloitte, Ben Lawsky is going where other regulators fear to tread.
By
Kevin Roose
tech feuds
June 18, 2013
Facebook and Twitter Are Slowly Becoming Each Other
The social-media singularity is near.
By
Kevin Roose
sad things
June 18, 2013
Jack Lew’s New, Boring Signature
What a disappointment.
By
Kevin Roose
the smartphone wars
June 18, 2013
Jay-Z, Samsung, & the New World of Endorsements
When it comes to marketing smartphones and music albums, the state of the art is changing very fast.
By
Kevin Roose
cd-uh-oh
June 17, 2013
Investors Don’t Want to Destroy Themselves With Derivatives, After All
The synthetic-CDO comeback falls flat.
By
Kevin Roose
waze of our lives
June 14, 2013
Did Google Just Buy a Dangerous Driving App?
Safety advocates are concerned about Waze.
By
Kevin Roose
weakonomics
June 13, 2013
Is America Too Pessimistic About the Economy?
Maybe, but economic PTSD is real.
By
Kevin Roose
pr gambles
June 12, 2013
Will Citigroup Get a PR Bump From Citi Bikes?
Survey says … maybe.
By
Kevin Roose
buffettology
June 12, 2013
Warren Buffett’s 28-Year-Old Assistant Is Much, Much Better Than You
Has a Harvard MBA, chairs four companies, drives Buffett around town.
By
Kevin Roose
the secret life of bankers
June 12, 2013
Wall Street Is Obsessed With Snapchat
Privacy + goofy selfies = banker gold.
By
Kevin Roose
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