Monthly Archives: August 2015

Stocks are down! Or up! Or something. Felix Salmon argues the media should stop doing this every day, because it’s meaningless and makes people feel stupid.

Make sense of market misinformation.

Columbia economist Suresh Naidu joins Slate Money to talk migrants, refugees, and work visas.

A few days of stock-market volatility can’t change that basic fact.

Not everybody needs to be in the market.

Think of it as stocks going on sale

The Slate Money crew discusses the harsh culture of working as an Amazon executive and whether unpaid internships will soon be a thing of the past.

More than any other sex act, anal sex causes a man to be as determined as possible to make sure that the woman has an orgasm.

We live in a topsy-turvy world in which noncontrolling corporate stakes are worth more when they’re private than when they’re public.

You never really paid for those $10,000 diamonds. Can Bloomingdale’s ask for them back?

Author Manu Saadia joins Slate Money to discuss the economics of the Star Trek universe.

Why did Google create Alphabet? Here are 26 reasons.

Jenny Anderson joins Slate Money to discuss the economics of weddings, chores, and adultery.

We should reduce the number of candidates in any given debate. To two.

If a brand wants to ensure that its ads are actually seen, it’s just going to have to buy that many more impressions.

Welcome to costly protracted chaos.

Law professor and author Zephyr Teachout joins the Slate Money crew to discuss money in campaigns, money in Puerto Rico, and money in Hillary’s speech.