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Amal Clooney doesn’t need your Likes, or your clicks, or your support.

Slate Money discusses State Street’s plan to place more women in executive roles, Swift’s banning of North Korean banks, and the eccentric billionaire owner of SoftBank.

Chaffetz believes in the power of markets, and of choice. But in practice, he gets it all wrong.

Slate Money discusses eccentric hedge-funders with Sheelah Kolhatkar, plus Herbalife and the insider trading allegations at the heart of her book Black Edge.

The problem is that the three most common answers (Buybacks Good, Buybacks Bad, and Buybacks Good Only If The Share Price Is Low) tend to be answers to three different questions.

La La Land got a plurality of the votes, but Serious Dramas got a majority. When that happens, La La Land will win a prize like Best Director which is decided in the first round, but, happily for Moonlight, it … Continue reading →

Slate Money discusses Uber’s continuing public relation woes and Kraft’s attempted takeover of Unilever.

More than ever, federal immigration policy is working in direct opposition to the interests of local law enforcement.

As Donald Trump does his rounds with billionaires, he should really drop in on Bill Gates at some point.

Slate Money discusses Snap Inc.’s upcoming IPO and Airbnb’s future challenges.

CEOs: It’s time to speak up. The future of America is at stake.

Slate Money discusses the economics of the film, book, and music industries with Derek Thompson.

Trump voters constitute a huge proportion of the people who will be most harmed by this bill.

Cathy O’Neil hand-picks all of Slate Money’s topics, including how psychometrics helped shape the recent U.S. election and the safety of statistics in the Trump era.

A news outlet like Fusion can never be impartial.

Slate Money discusses America’s abandonment of the TPP and some headline news from Cathy.

From the World Economic Forum in Davos, Slate Money reports on China’s support for globalization and the United Kingdom’s role in a changing Europe.

Many thanks to Oxfam’s Ben Grossman-Cohen for responding in detail to my post about his wealth statistics

The barbell has hit Davos squarely in the face, and Davos Man is down for the count.

Anthony Scaramucci is in his favorite place: the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

The list of high-profile world leaders has completely disappeared, because it would be embarrassingly short.

One of the non-obvious consequences of being named Felix is that you end up thinking quite a bit about the semantics of happiness.

What I would love to see is not a wealth ranking based on net worth (assets minus liabilities), but rather a wealth ranking based simply on assets.

Slate Money discusses the mysterious history of Bic Cristal pens and Anthony Scaramucci’s White House assignment.

Slate Money discusses the growth of traditionally female caregiver jobs, which men often don’t want, and Trump’s debt ties.