Author Archives: Felix

Slate Money on a new documentary about the financial crisis, the state of business and finance news, and a look at the duopoly.

In the 50 years before the financial crisis, the real Federal Funds rate was positive more than 80% of the time.

“Corporations are people,” said Mitt Romney in 2011, famously, but if they are, they seem to have an impressive degree of impunity.

Slate Money on Huawei and the trade war, ride-share companies and IPOs, and Harvard stocking up on water.

It looks like a new checking account that pays 3% interest is not going to fly.

You might have missed the huge market rally last week.

Slate Money on Facebook in Europe, Sandberg and Harvard Business School, the “Yellow Vest” protests in France, and a look at the yield curve.

Mark Zuckerberg this year reportedly told Facebook officials that the company is at war. He’s right.

The G20 summit in Buenos Aires exceeded all expectations.

Slate Money on GM’s plant closures, Carlos Ghosn in hot water, Trump trash-talking the Fed, and whether or not we should care about Apple and Microsoft’s market caps.

Welcome to the modern car industry, which is full of bad news.

This Tuesday, I’ll be giving to the Committee to Protect Journalists, whose work is more urgent than ever.

Two of the world’s experts on sovereign debt talk about the past, present, and future of debt default.

If you tried to put together a deal guaranteed to appeal to absolutely no one in the U.K., you could hardly do better than the 535-page draft agreement unveiled on Wednesday between Britain and the EU.

Slate Money talks Amazon’s new headquarters, mayhem with Brexit, and Steve Cohen getting more billions.

Slate Money talks about all the ramifications of this week’s midterm elections, Maxine Waters and big banks, Puerto Rico, minimum wage, and cannabis.

Deutsche Bank has every reason to be worried that the Democrats now control the House.

Americans are enjoying year-on-year wage gains above 3% for the first time in over a decade.

Slate Money talks about Brazil’s big election, Google employees walking out, Netflix employees getting fired, and leveraged loans.

1 big thing: Saudi agonistes

Slate Money talks everything Brexit—the ideological shift, the economic ramifications, and the greater effect on Europe.

The most likely cause of a future financial crisis isn’t the banks, it’s the non-banks.

Slate Money on the death of Sears, the Robinhood high frequency trading scandal, and the retreat of the Financial Stability Oversight Council.

I should listen to my wife more often.

You might have noticed that the stock market was volatile this week, and also fell quite a lot.