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The Silicon Valley playing field is tilted sharply towards tech bros, making it harder for people from less privileged groups to succeed.

Slate Money talks AT&T’s planned merger with Time Warner, the CETA trade deal, and how tech companies fare in the public stock markets.

Slate Money breaks down the HFC deal, proposed Airbnb regulations, and the Volcker Rule.

Be like Warren Buffett, not Donald Trump.

Slate Money discusses how these tribunals affect international trade deals.

Uber needs, if not a Steve Jobs or Jony Ive, then at least someone who can do Marissa Mayer’s old job at Google: saying no to potentially profitable new ideas, if they add too much complexity to the product.

If Trump were being honest, he’d admit that he’s the biggest villain of his own narrative.

November 3: Ben Bernanke announces that the Fed is going to buy an additional $600 billion worth of Treasury bonds.

Slate Money on The Wall Street Journal’s college rankings list; the state of Deutsche Bank’s financial health; and Elon Musk’s mission to Mars.

From Washington DC to London, concrete edifices aren’t to everyone’s taste, but they’re here to stay – and people have learned to love these sights

Slate Money talks changing jobs in the robot economy, Wells Fargo’s banking products, and Amazon pricing algorithms.

As of midnight last Friday night, Fusion’s parent company, Univision Communications, is now the proud owner of six awesome blogs: Gizmodo, Kotaku, Deadspin, Jezebel, Lifehacker, and Jalopnik.

Slate Money dives into Cathy O’Neil’s new book, Weapons of Math Destruction.

Apple, at this point, is more akin to a sovereign nation-state than a technology company.

Slate Money on Apple’s tax problems, female computer science majors, and Aeropostale’s new owners.

Everybody hates a tourist.

Slate Money on why we should be outraged at the makers of EpiPen, passive investing, and hedge funds.

Slate Money on 21st-century products: Google search, the iPhone, and Amazon Prime.

Trump and his kin have effectively rotated the axis upon which we place political candidates.

Slate Money on hedge funds, declining U.S. productivity, and vagina technology innovations.

In general, it’s a good idea to tax things you want less of, like tobacco, or wealth inequality.

Slate Money on rumored and definite changes at Walmart and Uber, and to Massachusetts law.

If that isn’t treason, it’s very close.

So long as Uber has been losing money, it’s essentially been subsidizing the transportation needs of everybody who uses it. But that won’t last forever. Indeed, it probably ended today.

Slate Money on Verizon buying Yahoo, CEO salaries, and the economy of digital advertising.