Author Archives: Felix

The ideal ECB president

Most fintech startups espouse two lofty goals: disrupting the banks and serving the underserved.

Don’t bother worrying about Libra

Unicorns are real, and they’re stampeding

Jay Powell doesn’t know what he’s going to do with interest rates.

This is the worst possible time to start a trade war with Mexico.

The promise of Facebook’s GlobalCoin

Just how dangerous are leveraged loans?

Situational awareness: Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes has joined Nobel Prize-winning economist Joe Stiglitz and Sen. Elizabeth Warren in calling for Facebook to be broken up.

For the fifth anniversary of the show, Slate Money welcomes back one of the original hosts, Jordan Weissmann.

1 big thing: The degraded stock market

Slate Money talks Herman Cain and Stephen Moore, the business of kidnapping, and Jack Dorsey.

What should a Democratic presidential candidate’s economic policy look like?

Slate Money invites Taffy Brodesser-Akner on the show to talk about arbitration at Sterling Jewelers and the celebrity-industrial complex.

Anyone who thinks that the stock market is a level playing field obviously has no contact with reality.

Donald Trump wants to politicize the Fed.

Slate Money talks to Natalie Jaresko about being executive director of the Financial Oversight and Management Board of Puerto Rico.

For nearly all of us (Jeff Bezos would seem to be one exception to the rule), there is some level of wealth at which having more money would not make us better off in any meaningful way.

Slate Money on the Murdochs, MacKenzie Bezos, and Saudi Aramco.

Who are you? And can you prove that, in today’s digital world?

Slate Money on Apple, the Purdue Pharma settlement, and Lyft going public.

To understand the unhappy state of the American electorate, and the systemic headwinds facing the U.S. economy, the best person to talk to is a Nigerian.

Slate Money on Operation Varsity Blues, the Deutsche Bank/Commerzbank merger, and Boeing.

In a big week for hypocrisy, the leader of the pack was surely Bill McGlashan, the CEO of the world’s largest impact investing fund.

Slate Money on the scary future of global warming.