The Post-Employment Economy Makes Entrepreneurs of Us All
It’s time to rethink the relationship between employers and employees.
What the IRS’s Taxation Ruling Means for Bitcoin and Other Digital Currencies
The recent notice is a surreal step that brings what was once an anarchist’s dream come true closer to being a tool of the state.
Do You Own Your Identity Online?
The European “right to be forgotten” could help protect U.S. citizens against blanket data surveillance.
The Not-So-Surprising Way Your Parents’ Income Predicts Yours
Just as you suspected, there’s a reason inequality is structural and self-perpetuating. But you might be shocked by just how few of the most well-off individuals are able to out-earn the generation before them. It isn’t the one percent we should be focusing on, but the 0.1 percent.
Investing in Human Capital, Literally
In what’s been criticized as a modern-day version of indentured servitude, a new batch of start-ups are giving investors the opportunity to turn people into profit by buying a piece of their future earnings. Could this be a solution to our student debt problem?
Do We Need to Force People to Live in the Homes They Own?
With more and more individual investors looking to real estate as just another money-making commodity to add to their portfolio, rents are being driven to unreachable heights for all but the wealthiest among us.
How Drug Money Is Funding Drug Education
Projected revenue figures for Colorado on marijuana taxes have been revised up and up and up, and Governor John Hickenlooper plans to put almost all of that money toward public health and addiction prevention programs.
Does America Need a Robin Hood Tax?
A tiny fee charged to the biggest banks could generate hundreds of billions of dollars every year for social services, but what effect would it have on Wall Street?
Crowd-Funding Gets Creative: The Kickstarters of 2014
Kickstarter and Indiegogo together bring in more than half a billion dollars annually for creators, but a new wave of crowd-funding sites are hoping to correct for some of their flaws.
How Are ‘Flappy Bird’ and ‘Candy Crush’ Still Making So Much Money?
A closer look at the app economy.