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…

Why you might need less of a raise than you think to combat inflation.

The right kind of bubble brings together the right group of people at the right time — it's a coordinating mechanism that can do a surprising amount of good.

«A bubble is an objectively irrational shared belief in a better potential future … but that doesn’t just describe someone bidding up asset prices; it also describes anyone who chooses to build that kind of future»

Defi is finance based not on the subjective behaviors of men, but on the immutable law of code. It is powerful and important, and if you care about protecting consumers, it is the greatest set of…

A public bank would allow the state of New York to keep its money closer to home, and put it to good work.

In difficult times, how can a philanthropist remain optimistic and engaged, while also being realistic?

Personal-finance experts and economists tend to offer different advice on issues like saving, retirement, and paying down debt.

«Why does personal finance advice so frequently depart from economic theory? The paper suggests the former group tends to take psychology into account, while the latter is operating in a purely rational world.»

In 2021, the average American spent just over $60,000 a year. But where does all their money go? Unsurprisingly, spending habits vary wildly depending on age. This graphic by Preethi Lodha us

Since the Industrial Revolution, technology has greatly enhanced humanity’s capacity to shape the world through manufacturing and finance. However, these technological developments also have the…

«Francis Bacon had described the scientific method’s application to the natural world in his Novum Organum Scientiarum (1620) as restoring humans’ ‘rights over nature’ as they use all their ‘efforts to make the course of art outstrip nature’.»

A Yale professor of finance read through 50 popular finance books to see how they square with traditional economic theory.

Budgeting tips won’t get you very far if you don’t address the elephant in the room.

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,…

View the expanded version of this infographic. Just four countries—the U.S., China, Japa

American food prices are rising at the fastest rate in decades due to supply chain issues, labor shortages, climate challenges and the conflict in Ukraine.

How would you define a country’s economic freedom? The cornerstones of economic freedom by most measures are personal choice, voluntary exchange, independence to compete in markets, and security of…

«The cornerstones of economic freedom by most measures are personal choice, voluntary exchange, independence to compete in markets, and security of the person and privately-owned property. Simply put, it is about the quality of political and economic institutions in countries»