Felix Salmon

Slate Money on subprime auto loans, CEOs vs. states, and the biggest fund to divest from fossil fuels.

You might experience a certain amount of discomfort at the start.

The main advice I have for most young people looking at these products is simple: why are are you looking at these products?

Slate Money on the business of podcasting, with special guests Alex Blumberg and Will Mayo.

Bitcoin might be an idiotic investment, but it’s not as bad as penny stocks.

If Facebook continues to grow as a trusted news source in its own right, then the result could be an existential crisis for news organizations with old-fashioned things like editors and fact-checkers and clear ethical guidelines.

It all starts 15 years ago…

Journalist Alissa Quart shares her first book of poetry, then chats with Slate Money about Wall Street bonuses and the late David Foster Wallace’s tax advice.

Or rather, it is still a tech conference, but in the same way that every company (even McDonald’s!) is a tech company.

Slate Money on odious debt as an international power play, Charles Schwab’s plan to create a robo-adviser, and the Apple smartwatch.

In Silicon Valley, either you raise money at ever-higher valuations, or you’re probably going to die.

Slate Money on whether Wu-Tang Clan’s album can sell like fine art, a stock plunge for Lumber Liquidators, and the reasons why we have patent trolls.

David Geffen paid $100 million to get his name on a concert hall at Lincoln Center. Yes, that’s kind of gross.

A case can be made that investing is a way of making poor people poorer.

This year’s wine contest was another great one. The theme was red wine from Mediterranean islands – which meant, in practice, Sicily, Sardinia, and Corsica. We had 11 contestants, with 7 wines from Sicily, 3 from Sardinia, and 1 from Corsica. Interestingly, Sardinian wines took both the gold and silver. The full Excel spreadsheet is here, and here’s the scatter chart:

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Slate Money on the new Panoply podcast network, Google’s new headquarters, and students taking a stand against college debt.

My appearance on Jorge Ramos’s show with Jeff Jarvis.

It’s not at all obvious that venture capitalists are preferable to public shareholders.

Imagine you’ve traded lives with a young woman in South Dakota, on the cusp of an important decision. Her fate is in your hands. Change her life at the end of each chapter.

When Patricia Arquette used her Oscar acceptance speech to declare that “it’s our time to have wage equality once and for all,” she wasn’t just talking about Hollywood millionaires; she was talking about all American women.

If it succeeds, it will be proof of the continued importance of print in journalism. So it’s worth asking, on the strength of this debut issue: has it succeeded?

Slate Money on the secretly evil world of government debt collectors, not-so-evil employee pay raises at Walmart, and oversize valuations for an uber-evil car sharing service

Can companies be paid to borrow money? It’s theoretically possible — but it hasn’t happened yet.

An article by Kevin Roose, annotated by me

Slate Money on Greece’s showdown with its European lenders, Expedia’s takeover of the online travel industry, plus Fifty Shades of Grey and the sexiness of billionaires.