Felix Salmon

They’re going to vote for change.

The Withings Activité  is the polite smart watch

If Apple manages to come up with a thin, waterproof watch which I can wear comfortably under a shirt cuff, one where I can tell the time just by looking at it, without having to recharge it twice a day, then I’ll be interested.

As old-school chain cuff links face an existential threat, one man makes a stand for true closure.

Listen to Slate’s show on former congressmen working for Wall Street, dollar-store mergers, and premium bonds.

It’s not much of a caveat to say that if women were exactly the same as men, then they would earn the same amount as men do.

The big interactive project I’ve been working on since May. Explore, enjoy! There’s also an IMterview I did with Chad Matlin about how he paid off his six-figure student debt in six years. And I wrote up the NY Fed’s analysis of whether going to college is worth it, too.

Slate Money on card tricks, tech valuations, and investing in professional athletes.

But giving money to disease-specific charities is still a bad idea.

Slate Money on tech deals minus the bankers, Amazon’s new payment system, and answers to listener questions.

Silicon Valley deals are not based on factors that bankers can model

Slate Money on payday loans, BuzzFeed’s latest valuation, and the value of data scientists.

My first #post-text project for Fusion: Bad Paper, a game which should help people understand the world of debt collections in a fun, immersive way. I gave it a short write-up for Fusion, but the main article it’s linked to is actually in the NYT, where the Sunday magazine is excerpting Jake Halpern’s great new book. In other words, this is a highly collaborative project: various teams of people at the NYT and at Fusion, including Mariana Santos’s brand-new interactives team, all worked with Jake to make this happen. I’m very proud it all came together.

If you’re looking at it asking how anybody could pay that kind of money for a bunch of listicles, you’re looking at it all wrong

How US states lost billions of dollars in tobacco settlement revenues

On financial gobbledygook, corporate “living wills” vs. “Too Big to Fail” and the battle over the estate of Robert Rauschenberg.

Slate Money on the business of surrogacy, a landmark McDonald’s labor ruling, and Argentina’s debt default (again).

The sun has risen, and Argentina is — once again — in default. NBD.

Why Argentina’s bonds might be worth even more in default

Slate Money on the state of business journalism, a hedge-fund billionaire’s battle against Herbalife, and the corporate income tax.

Slate Money on a big bank’s big settlement, a big merger in “Big Tobacco,” and the continuing saga of the world’s most expensive fighter plane.

Slate Money on endings: quantitative easing, the American Apparel leadership, and big cupcake.

Slate Money on New York’s secretive real estate, big data in health care, and GM’s many recalls

Lessons from Yahoo’s chart buttons

Jeff Koons and the art of financial innovation