The Bitcoin Crash That Never Came
After watching it survive Chinese legislation that attempted to ban the use of virtual currencies, we’re much closer to positive that Bitcoin is here to stay for good.
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How Cyclical Thinking Might Help You Save Money
The good news: researchers have found a way to make people save money. The bad news: it requires a complete rewiring of how human beings perceive their existence.
Everything Is Money: Does It Matter What Form Our Currency Takes?
The primary goal of money is to connect disparate individuals and groups, giving them a universal medium of exchange in the form of an object or symbol that all parties value.
How a Frustrated Blogger Made Expanding Social Security a Respectable Idea
Thanks to decades of stagnant wages and the Great Recession, more than half of American working-class households are at risk of being unable to sustain their standard of living past retirement. Duncan Black is trying to change that.
Can Profit Be Used to Justify All Actions?
On JPMorgan's $11 billion fine and the values of CNBC anchors.
Meet the Flexians
A new professional class of movers and shakers—people who serve overlapping roles in government, business, and media with smiling finesse—is controlling the flow of power and money in America. The anthropologist Janine Wedel is bent on making us understand just how dangerous this new normal can be.
How Financial Education in Jail Can Empower Inmates—and Save Everyone Money
Incarcerated men say that money troubles put them in prison—and avoiding money troubles will keep them out.
The Top 1% of U.S. Income Earners Receive 15% of Tax Breaks and Credits
And about half of all tax expenditures go to the top 20 percent.