Monthly Archives: March 2015

You might experience a certain amount of discomfort at the start.

The main advice I have for most young people looking at these products is simple: why are are you looking at these products?

Slate Money on the business of podcasting, with special guests Alex Blumberg and Will Mayo.

Bitcoin might be an idiotic investment, but it’s not as bad as penny stocks.

If Facebook continues to grow as a trusted news source in its own right, then the result could be an existential crisis for news organizations with old-fashioned things like editors and fact-checkers and clear ethical guidelines.

It all starts 15 years ago…

Journalist Alissa Quart shares her first book of poetry, then chats with Slate Money about Wall Street bonuses and the late David Foster Wallace’s tax advice.

Or rather, it is still a tech conference, but in the same way that every company (even McDonald’s!) is a tech company.

Slate Money on odious debt as an international power play, Charles Schwab’s plan to create a robo-adviser, and the Apple smartwatch.

In Silicon Valley, either you raise money at ever-higher valuations, or you’re probably going to die.

Slate Money on whether Wu-Tang Clan’s album can sell like fine art, a stock plunge for Lumber Liquidators, and the reasons why we have patent trolls.

David Geffen paid $100 million to get his name on a concert hall at Lincoln Center. Yes, that’s kind of gross.

A case can be made that investing is a way of making poor people poorer.

This year’s wine contest was another great one. The theme was red wine from Mediterranean islands – which meant, in practice, Sicily, Sardinia, and Corsica. We had 11 contestants, with 7 wines from Sicily, 3 from Sardinia, and 1 from … Continue reading →