Author Archives: Felix

Slate Money on Airbnb, airlines, and the travel industry.

Slate Money answers your voicemails.

Slate Money on Disney acquiring Fox, Apple acquiring Shazam, and bitcoin futures.

Donor-advised funds, or DAFs, are the duck-billed platypus of the philanthropic world: a very weird creature that shouldn’t, by rights, exist.

Do you like to feel mystified, intimidated, inadequate? Then walk this way! I have a vintage chart to show you.

The documents show how the museum’s leadership convinced the board to sell off 40 works—and made them think they had no choice in the matter.

The web of undisclosed conflicts in the bitcoin world is almost impossible to disentangle, especially since one of the celebrated features of cryptocurrencies is that they can be held secretly.

Slate Money on the United States, Brexit, and Venezuelan cryptocurrency.

Big asset managers aren’t scary. Neither is passive investment.

The artist Damien Hirst is fundamentally a maker of luxury goods, and that is why he confounds the expectations of art-world cynics and romantics alike.

Slate Money on The Financial Diaries, Affirm, and Amazon.

Focus on a relatively small number of individuals: the CEOs announcing matching-giving campaigns, the TV executives running telethons, the celebrities tweeting out links to donate, the people who decide which disaster-relief charities pop up on ATM screens when you try … Continue reading →

Nothing that Congress has done to date seems to have harmed the charitable sector in the slightest.

Slate Money on restaurant buzz, vegetarianism, and cookbooks.

This is something which has largely been missed in the conversation about disaster relief generally and about cash transfers in particular: how you do it matters, a lot.

Slate Money on the sale of a da Vinci, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and Zimbabwe.

Notes on $450,312,500

On giving big jobs to unexpected candidates

Slate Money on Saudi Arabia, Wilbur Ross, and endowments.

Slate Money on Republican tax plans, the opioid crisis, and Jay Powell.

This week, the state’s attorney general called for a temporary restraining order to block Sotheby’s from selling works from the museum’s collection.

Slate Money on sexual harassment, NEOM, and trading cryptocurrencies.

I’ve been clear for some months now that I consider the Berkshire Museum’s current deaccessioning plan to be a very, very bad idea. But is it illegal?

Slate Money on the Norwegian sovereign wealth fund, Scandinavian economics, and the 30th anniversary of Black Monday.

24% of female creatives make $5 per hour or less.