The Best Articles in Finance

If it’s marshalled in the right way, the global finance market could become a powerful force for sustainable development.

How do you enjoy life when everything is more expensive? You don’t want to spend too much. But living without pleasure is also no good.

«When you look at history, you’ll notice that the platitude is right: History doesn’t repeat, it rhymes.»

“Financial operations” (FinOps) is an emerging software category with a massive opportunity to streamline, automate, and optimize how we move money, while giving the entire organization a real-time…

Notoriously smart risk-takers missed a huge threat under their own noses, while avowed libertarians begged for government help.

Interviews on money & investing. Real people. Real numbers.

Until last Friday Silicon Valley Bank was the 16th largest bank in the US, worth more than $200bn

This week, the go-to bank for US tech startups came rapidly unglued, leaving its high-powered customers and investors in limbo.

Banks are piling on the perks while debt soars.

Jan 19, 2023 SHARE ↓ A funny thing about money is that it’s a negative art. You often have a better chance of accumulating more of it by getting rid of bad traits vs. acquiring good ones. Most…

«FOMO is also ruinous because it forces you into short-termism. If you only bought an investment because it went up, you’ll be the first to panic when it inevitably goes down.»

Studying the display of personal wealth across time can help us better understand the history of socioeconomic inequality.

Here’s why day trading is an extremely difficult pursuit, and what’s likely to happen when inexperienced traders get in over their heads.

NEW YORK (AP) — Across the country, there’s a silent frustration brewing about an age-old practice that many say is getting out of hand: tipping. Some fed-up consumers are posting rants on social…

The author picked up some valuable skills while behind bars — like how to make a microwave cake and how to reuse stamps. He also discovered that the most innovative (and brutal) parts of capitalism…

Former General Electric CEO Jack Welch once nearly died of a heart attack. Years later he was asked what went through his mind while he was being rushed to the hospital in what could have been his…

«Psychologist Jonathan Haidt says people don’t communicate on social media; they perform for one another. Spending money is like that, too.»

The era of easy money is now officially over. For 15 years, policymakers have tried to stimulate the global economy through money creation, zero interest-rate policies, and more recently, aggressive…

Bad takes, revisited.

«More jobs means fewer people looking for work, means it’s harder to find good people to fill those jobs, means you got to raise wages to get them, means inflation goes up. You got it?”»

Amid a national housing crisis, giant private equity firms have been buying up apartment buildings en masse to squeeze them for profit, with the help of government-backed Freddie Mac. Meanwhile,…

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