Monthly Archives: July 2017

At heart, you combine the three ingredients, bung it in the oven for half an hour, and presto, you’re done.

Slate Money on Anthony Scaramucci, productivity, and Hampton Creek’s eggless mayo.

Anthony Scaramucci is a schmoozer, a chameleon, and quite possibly a man with no soul. He’s Trump’s most dangerous enabler yet.

It’s a bit facile to take the real problems with Little Free Libraries, and to assume that Little Free Pantries suffer from the same ailments. They don’t.

Saving forests saves lives, both directly and indirectly. So let’s do it for that simple and near-term reason, and let’s pay for any necessary incentives through public-health resources rather than climate-related funding.

Slate Money on private student loan debt, Donald Trump’s ties to Deutsche Bank, and hedge funders evading taxes.

He might be able to win over the Davos crowd. But America as a whole has a much more finely-honed bullshit detector.

When you add NGOs to the development mix, it’s important to remember what you’re subtracting at the same time.

The painting will now leave the world of museums, re-enter private hands, and be replaced with an “interpretive plan” of “thematic zones”. It’s not a good trade.

Slate Money on going cashless with Visa, coding boot camps, and Warren Buffett.

Never let it be said that nothing substantive ever comes out of expense-account boondoggles like the Black Corporate Directors Conference.

In a weird way, Eric Trump is a good charity fundraiser precisely because he so intuitively understands the venality of the rich.

Once a museum reaches a certain size (and the Met is already much bigger than that size), growth pays no dividends.

Slate Money on The Chickenshit Club, sexual harassment in Silicon Valley, and Hobby Lobby.

The Greatest American Object in Art History

For the time being, the Met is going keep on kicking the tires of various billionaires, in the hope that one of them, eventually, will pay for a shiny new modern-and-contemporary wing.

Slate Money on Google’s antitrust violations, Italian banks, and Seattle’s minimum wage.