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Advertising is making the mobile web almost unusable by clogging up our bandwidth – which may end up driving users to Apple News or Facebook apps

Slate Money on the eurozone backstory, Greece’s failures, and what it means to have unsustainable debt.

The short answer is yes.

Slate Money discusses this week’s outage on Wall Street, the crash of the Chinese stock market, and the restaurant reservation industry.

Guest host Felix Salmon explores how the art world is blurring the lines between art, pornography, and the law. (Text version of the Spiel is here)

Here’s what you need to know

It’s only human to start seeing patterns in the news: in fact, it would be astonishing if we didn’t. But that doesn’t mean the patterns are really there.

Bitcoin’s default stance of anarcho-libertarianism is not the only possible use to which blockchain technology can be put.

Karl Storchmann of the Journal of Wine Economics discusses how wine ratings affect prices and how to decide what to spend on your bottle.

It’s dry, it’s unpretentious, it goes with everything: it’s the perfect drink for any laid-back dude.

Think Greece’s economic problems are bad? Puerto Rico’s might be worse.

Will Greece manage, somehow, to remain in the euro? Or will it be forced to leave? Let’s do the math!

We’ll let you practice your bigotry, at least within the confines of your own church. But we’re not about to reward you for doing so.

Our hosts answer your questions about the Fed, inflation and equities, and the financial crises in Greece and Argentina.

From #Tsipref to #Grexit, your questions answered.

How did you acquire your favorite artwork? Who’s the artist? What do you love about it most? How much did it cost?

The benefits of technological innovation have to go to workers, not just Silicon Valley VCs.

Arthur Sulzberger: call Mike Bloomberg’s office! You’ve ruled out selling your company to him. But have you thought about buying his company from him?

Above the Law’s Elie Mystal talks about quitting big law, quitting your student debt, and quitting—whether you like it or not—your job as Twitter’s CEO.

Evan Solomon was caught literally and explicitly trading — to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars in pure profit — on the connections that he made as a journalist.

Slate Money talks with the New York Times’ Ron Lieber about his new book for parents, the worst charity you could give your money to, and the need to insure Uber drivers.

Nikebots are essentially a largely unanticipated outgrowth of the marketing phenomenon that is Michael Jordan.

Google’s virtual reality Cardboard, media consolidation big and small, and what the FIFA folks did wrong.

Uber charges nothing for its Berlin drivers’ time. Why is that?

A few months ago, British financial journalist, Felix Salmon served up some career advice to aspiring journalists and the long and short of it was: don’t bother.