Monthly Archives: June 2014

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 →