Financiers Fight Over the American Dream

Why Aren’t Mothers Worth Anything to Venture Capitalists?

The struggles of a breast-pump startup underscore V.C.’s blind spot when it comes to women and babies.

Hedge Funds: Even Millennium and Citadel's Losing Traders Are Hot Recruits

With talent in short supply, top firms are looking at rival loss-making portfolio managers as a rare hiring opportunity.

Thinking About the Money Room

Canada’s pension funds recently committed tens of billions to invest at home, and growth-stage venture capital didn’t make the list

No Exit Opportunities: Business Models and Political Thought in Silicon Valley - American Affairs Journal

It’s a rare buccaneer who runs a book club. But in October 2012, the chief administrator of the Silk Road drug market, under the pseudonym “Dread Pirate Roberts,” was on the dark web assigning readings from the anarchist libertarian philosophy of Murray Rothbard. Roth­bard had argued that markets and individual connections were really all we…

Making Insider Trading Legal

Thanks to gaping loopholes implicitly endorsed by the Supreme Court, hedge funds now essentially have a license to cheat.

How to pick a mutual fund without getting ripped off

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From Code To Cash: Stack Overflow Co-Founder Jeff Atwood’s Unorthodox Path To Philanthropy

The more I looked at it, the more I thought the money should be actually out there working to make the world better in some form.

Transparent Vice

The wild expenses, shady deals, and greed that ruined Vice.

The rise of the "successful" unsustainable company

We're funding too many unsustainable companies.

The Race to Allocate One Trillion Dollars in Philanthropic Capital

Frontier Lab IPOs are coming, and philanthropy isn’t ready

Les inégalités aux Etats-Unis (5/5) : une financiarisation prédatrice

traduction française du billet de blog "Predatory financialization. Understanding Inequality: Part V" de Paul Krugman