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We’re reverting, slowly, to some approximation of normality. That, surely, is something to celebrate.

Slate Money discusses the acquisition of Keurig Green Mountain, Yahoo’s struggles, and the merger of Dow Chemical and DuPont.

This isn’t a movie for finance nerds.

We unpack the financial crisis with The Big Short’s Adam Davidson.

He’s doing his very best. And Mark Zuckerberg, at his best, is pretty formidable.

They’re surprisingly optimistic.

It’s worth slicing up your giving into its component parts.

Slate Money shares what we’re grateful for this year, including insurance, index funds, and … McDonald’s.

Al Gore has become a salesman, in the latest iteration of his career—and what he’s selling doesn’t emit carbon, dig up blood diamonds or cause cancer.

As phones grow to become an overwhelming majority of traffic, content has become increasingly aimed at playing the numbers game

I provide a short squib on Andy Warhol

Writer Greg Ip on why it’s safer to take risks.

Let’s stop asking people questions about interest rates and percentages, and then pretending to be shocked when they don’t give us the answer we’re looking for.

This is one of the few mergers I’m optimistic about.

Fusion’s Nando Vila throws down with Jordan Weissmann over student loan debt.

Once you’re signed up for Uber insurance, you’ll probably pick somebody up once or twice, just to try it out, see how it goes.

“It’s about rendering humans irrelevant. Anxiety about what makes us special. Nostalgia about the way things never were.”

Any job that doesn’t require thought can be done better by a machine; any job that does require thought can be done better by a philosopher.

I remember when I was a curious 23-year-old. I tried all manner of things, some of them even legal.

Listen to this episode of Slate Money and you’ll finally understand hedge funds, venture capital, and private equity.

At the University of Pennsylvania

Rising rents are a symptom of success, more than they are a cause of failure.

Slate Money on payday loans, postal banking, and prepaid debit cards.

There’s no shortage of hedgehogs for Republicans to pick from. But the Democrats only have one in the race.

The full video.