Author Archives: Felix

Soon, the U.S. territory will be run by a group of seven unelected individuals, most of whom will be appointed by Republicans in Washington.

I annotate a contentious letter about the fight between the tenants of 37 Ave B, including the Lower East Side People’s Federal Credit Union.

Slate Money on Lending Club, Google payday loan ads, and public pensions.

Slate Money on nonvoting shares, oil industry bankruptcies, and bank class-action suits.

Slate Money on Greece, Puerto Rico, and the Brexit.

You thought the machinations in The Social Network were bad? Well, Mark Zuckerberg just effectively declared himself dictator-for-life at Facebook.

A fascinating interview with the one and only Amy Cappellazzo.

Summers is, by a long shot, the worst thing that ever happened to Harvard.

Slate Money with Margit Wennmachers on Theranos, Silicon Valley, and German company culture.

He knew that art and reach are two different things. Reach made him famous. But what he lived for was art.

Slate Money live with Rose Eveleth and Gideon Lichfield.

Slate Money with Josh Reich on Simple, financial tech, and the Panama Papers.

“Lost” art, anonymous owners, insane price boosts: Here’s how shell companies make the very beautiful very bankable.

Slate Money on the gig economy, Spotify’s financing plan, and the Starwood Hotels deal.

The U.S. Soccer Federation is clearly underpaying both its women players and its women’s coaches.

Slate Money on free trade, gentrification, and the Credit Suisse fiasco.

Selling your art for money? That’s fine. Putting that money in your brokerage account? Also fine. But turning your brokerage account into art—that’s apparently over the line.

Slate Money on the Bangladeshi bank heist, Valeant’s tanking share price, and Bridgewater’s people problem.

Next time you rub your eyes and wonder how on earth this racist nutjob is going to become the Republican presidential candidate, remind yourself that it’s not democracy which put him in that position. Rather, it’s the lack of it.

Slate Money with Stacey Vanek Smith on buying citizenship, the lack of women on investor boards, and why we work so much.

Slate Money on tampon taxes, value-added taxes, and the weird way the U.S. does sales tax.

A zero-accident car is no car at all.

Slate Money with Guan Yang on Apple and the FBI, Sci-Hub, and Argentina.

Rarely has so much personal money been spent on something as nebulous and vapid as this.

The most committed British Europeans—the ones who have made their home elsewhere in the EU for more than 15 years—will have no say in the referendum whatsoever.