Lengthy era of rock-bottom interest rates leaving its mark on US economy economics Article 1808 words 10 votes
The disruption con: Why Big Tech’s favourite buzzword is nonsense economics Article 2994 words, published Sep 24 2020 6 votes
US President Donald Trump’s taxes show chronic losses and years of income tax avoidance Article 10 106 words 61 votes
CEO of Philip Morris, the company that makes Marlboro, says cigarette sales may end within ten to fifteen years business Article 290 words 9 votes
The FinCen Files: Thousands of secret suspicious activity reports offer a picture of corruption and complicity - and how the government lets it flourish Article 3948 words 11 votes
RAND study uncovers massive income shift to the top 1% - The median worker should be making as much as $102,000 annually—if some $2.5 trillion wasn’t being “reverse distributed” every year economics Article 1424 words 33 votes
It took decades, but Chuck Feeney, the former billionaire cofounder of Duty Free Shoppers, has finally given all his money away to charity. He has nothing left now - and he couldn’t be happier Article 1403 words 12 votes
"We have capitalism for the poor and socialism for the rich" - Mark Blyth economics Video 50:06, published May 27 2020 13 votes
Doesn’t feel like a recession? You should be paying more in taxes economics Article 1247 words, published Sep 3 2020 12 votes
LVMH backs out of $16.2 billion acquisition of Tiffany, citing US threats of tariffs on French goods. Tiffany has filed a lawsuit to enforce the agreement business Article 126 words 6 votes
Intimidation, surveillance and conspiracy theories: Inside the Financial Times' five-year investigation of the billion-dollar Wirecard fraud Article 4800 words 5 votes
Multiple court rulings have found Amazon responsible for defects in products sold by third-party merchants business Article 2117 words 6 votes
More than half of San Francisco storefronts closed due to pandemic business Article 444 words 8 votes
Major shakeup for the Dow Jones Industrial Average index in the US: three new stocks join Article 11 votes
The stock market looks like the Bitcoin economy, and that’s not a good thing economics cryptocurrency Article 1573 words 9 votes
Home ownership is the West’s biggest economic-policy mistake. It is an obsession that undermines growth, fairness and public faith in capitalism leaders economics Article 1071 words, published Jan 16 2020 23 votes
Vanguard is outsourcing recordkeeping work, along with 1,300 of its workforce, to Infosys business Article 841 words 11 votes
Norway's wealth fund loses £16bn in first half of 2020 after Covid panic – state support has restored investor confidence but fund expects more market turmoil economics Article 551 words 7 votes
The recession is over for the rich, but the working class is far from recovered economics Article 2019 words 7 votes
Millennials slammed by second financial crisis fall even further behind economics Article 63 words 15 votes
Private equity firm Blackstone Group will acquire genealogy provider Ancestry.com for $4.7 billion, placing a big bet on family-tree chasing as well as personalized medicine business Article 273 words 17 votes
Fishing has always been a way of life on the Faroe Islands, where fish accounts for 90% of all exported goods – but coronavirus is hitting its efforts to increase tourism business Article 1228 words 4 votes
The lights go out on Lebanon’s economy as financial collapse accelerates economics Article 1610 words 13 votes
eBay is reportedly getting close to a deal to sell its classified-ads business to Adevinta, a Norwegian company that runs online marketplaces business Article 350 words 6 votes
A risky bet by America’s mall owners: Plucking retailers out of bankruptcy to salvage a pandemic-hit industry business Article 1264 words 7 votes
Apparent suicide by twenty-year-old Robinhood trader who saw a negative $730,000 balance prompts app to make changes Article 27 votes
Netflix shares fall after lower-than-expected earnings and appointment of co-CEO, weak guidance for subscriber growth in third quarter business Article 305 words 11 votes
A landmark report into the on-demand workforce commissioned by the Victorian Government has made a host of recommendations to make sure gig economy workers get the fair deal they deserve Article 450 words 8 votes
New mortgage delinquencies in the United States hit a record in April, well above anything seen during the Great Recession Article 965 words 9 votes
Possible sale of ARM incoming, Apple is rumoured to be one of those interested business Article 413 words 10 votes