Author Archives: Felix

Jeffrey Katzenberg’s unicorn newborn is probably going to fail.

Whether private or public, Tesla will have to contend with its main distraction: its CEO.

Slate Money on Tesla, a tweet-inspired diplomatic spat, and Indra Nooyi leaving PepsiCo.

If big shareholders do really have the option to remain invested, it’s easy to see how they might prefer a life that doesn’t involve having to battle short sellers or worry about stock market volatility.

Slate Money on Silicon Valley hiring practices, free lunches, and stock buybacks.

Just look at who the company chose to be its new chairman.

The company had deep-pocketed backers and a plan. It just overlooked a few important details.

Slate Money on tumbling tech stocks, Trump’s tariffs, Sergio Marchionne, and 23andMe.

The 19% plunge reflects the fragility of the tech sector as a whole.

Local papers used to have a financial reason to invest in journalism. Not anymore.

Paying off your house is saving for retirement.

By moving into resettlement services and ramping up its political advocacy.

Google’s $5 billion fine, NYC’s public transit woes, and WeWork’s meat ban.

It’s hard to turn a bad corporate culture into a good one.

Netflix stock is essentially an attempt to boil a complex bimodal probability distribution down to a single number.

Amazon is really nothing to be scared of.

Slate Money on universal basic income, Turkey, and Kylie Jenner, billionaire.

When bacon-wrapped figs (pictured at a June 20 storytelling event sponsored by New York Magazine and WeWork) are outlawed, only outlaws will nosh on bacon-wrapped figs.

But congratulations, Kylie Jenner, on your viral cover.

So why do lefty wonks keep writing about it like it is?

John Stankey wants HBO to be more like Netflix. Oh no.

Since 1994, Bill Gates has donated more than 700 million shares of Microsoft to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. If he’d simply held on to those shares instead, he’d today be some $71 billion richer, and his net worth … Continue reading →

Dallas Cowboys owners Gene and Jerry Jones built a world-class art collection not for themselves but for 2 million fans.

Slate Money on Janus v. AFSCME, installment loans, and AMLO’s election victory.

And grow up.