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Slate Money with Neil Irwin on Neel Kashkari’s plan to break up the banks.

Unthinkable? Think again.

Slate Money with Mohamed El-Erian on the future of our economy, technocrats vs. democracy, and the role of central banks.

Messaging apps have already overtaken social networks in terms of global popularity.

What we need is the combination of high prices for consumers, along with low prices for producers.

It divvies up the world into the “great” and the “not great,” with most people finding themselves in the latter category.

Clinton is an incrementalist candidate who is going to be broadly acceptable to Wall Street.

Slate Money on a cashless future, Viacom’s aging patriarch, and the Credit Suisse profit loss.

Slate Money broadcasts from the World Economic Forum in Davos with Quartz reporter Jenny Anderson.

Qatar, it seems, was gazumped.

Slate Money talks to author William Easterly about the developing world, poor and displaced populations, and the World Bank.

Handbags are not a good investment.

Slate Money talks Weight Watchers, health-related wearables, and the economics of gyms.

Fight the urge to tell all your friends.

What exactly does Sanders want to do with Wall Street?

Not only is it incredibly hard to determine whether or not a particular drug works; it’s hard even to come up with a useful and workable understanding of what it means for a drug to work.

Slate Money talks derivatives, predatory lending, and the economics of partying on New Year’s Eve.

When a Norwegian folk-pop duo decided to call themselves the Kings of Convenience back in 1999, they wound up with a few minor hits. They should have become venture capitalists instead—they would have made billions.

Being inside the Times Square Olive Garden on New Year’s Eve is what economists call a “positional good” – it’s something with relatively little innate value, and which rather derives its value mainly by being superior to some lesser alternative.

In Beatles terms, we’ve started moving from “you say you want a revolution” to “you tell me that it’s evolution.”

Slate Money talks Obamacare, the economics of neglected diseases, and author Harold Pollack tells us about his financial guide The Index Card.

The lives of thousands of people with Chagas disease are likely to be utterly transformed.

Slate Money on the economics of the Star Wars franchise, how the Fed hiked interest rates, and the future of junk bonds.

Both will make enemies they’ve never had before.

Here’s a hopeful prediction for 2016: It will mark the point at which the sheer quantity of junky adtech encrustations on publishers’ sites will start going down rather than up.