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Want to Invest in Your City? Try the New Kickstarter for Municipal Bonds

By bringing some Silicon Valley-style innovation to a dusty, through increasingly popular, sector, Neighborly hopes to make supporting local infrastructure projects both cool and profitable.

Kyle Chayka

Environment

Does Technology Need to Be a Luxury?

The unfortunate future is likely to be a consumer technology market that splits along class lines.

Kyle Chayka

Environment

Not Everything Should Be Crowdfunded

The explosion of real estate investment start-ups gives us a peek into the dangers of peer-to-peering everything.

Susie Cagle

Economics

Boom & Bust: From Bitcoin to Bike Share, the Biggest Booms and Busts of the Past Year

After a week of reporting and writing on booms and busts—everything from the economy of big oil boomtowns to the growth of the mental-health counseling field—Jamie Wiebe considers five of the biggest booms—and five of the biggest busts—of the past year.

Jamie Wiebe

Economics

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.

Kyle Chayka