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Edward R. Pressman, Indie Producer Behind American Psycho , Dead at 79 He produced early works for Kathryn Bigelow, Terrence Malick, and Jason Reitman.
By Jason P. Frank
conservatism
Dec. 6, 2022
Why the GOP Will Lose Its War on ‘Woke Wall Street’ Republicans can’t accept that they dislike modern capitalism, so they’re blaming “ESG” instead.
By Eric Levitz
the money game
Oct. 18, 2022
Wall Street Banks Are (at Least Somewhat) Freaked Out About a Recession Jamie Dimon talks about an economic “hurricane.” David Solomon is posting less about his DJ gigs. Does that equal panic?
By Kevin T. Dugan
the money game
Oct. 10, 2022
The Next Recession Might Be Manufactured The pain the Federal Reserve is inflicting around the world could hit Americans next.
By Kevin T. Dugan
the money game
Oct. 5, 2022
Mohamed El-Erian on the Looming Recession — and What He’s Doing With His Money “I don’t know how to convey it, but we came very close to a financial accident in the U.K,” says the markets guru.
By Jen Wieczner
the money game
Oct. 3, 2022
Why Is Everyone Freaking Out About Credit Suisse? Wall Street is suddenly fearful about a Lehman Brothers–like disaster hitting the financial system — sparked by the European investment bank.
By Kevin T. Dugan
the money game
Sept. 13, 2022
How Rising Rents Crashed the Stock Market Tuesday’s decline in stocks was the largest in more than two years. A steep rise in housing inflation was a big reason.
By Kevin T. Dugan
brick and mortar
Sept. 6, 2022
What Is Going on With Bed Bath & Beyond? We need to know what’s happening to the iconic Sixth Avenue store.
By Clio Chang
the money game
Aug. 4, 2022
Why Smart-Money Investors Are Shorting Trump’s SPAC “Digital World isn’t just another dubious 2021 SPAC — it is a poster child for some of the worst abuses the investment vehicle has spawned.”
By Michelle Celarier
the money game
July 8, 2022
Elon Musk and the World’s Biggest Case of Buyer’s Remorse The richest man on the planet can get everything he wants, but maybe what he’s after is the thrill of the impossible.
By Kevin T. Dugan
the money game
June 17, 2022
‘The Poster Child’ of the Tech Meltdown Secretive hedge fund Tiger Global changed the rules on tech investing. Then it all went bad.
By Michelle Celarier
the money game
May 26, 2022
The Rise and Fall of Wall Street’s Most Controversial Investor Cathie Wood built a thriving brand out of price-prediction porn — then the tech bubble popped.
By Jen Wieczner
the money game
May 16, 2022
How Red States Are Trying to Snuff Out Green Investing Numerous states are launching a messy preemptive strike against so-called ESG efforts by the financial sector to move away from fossil fuels.
By Jake Bittle
the money game
May 11, 2022
The Crash of Crypto’s Perpetual Wealth Machine The implosion of an audacious coin project has left the crypto world shaken, regulators fired up, and a lot of retail investors much poorer.
By Kevin T. Dugan
the money game
Apr. 29, 2022
By Jen Wieczner
the money game
Apr. 27, 2022
The Man Who Collapsed Wall Street Last year, Bill Hwang lost $20 billion in two days, exposing the still-dark corners of Wall Street. This morning, he was arrested for fraud.
By Kevin T. Dugan
the money game
Apr. 26, 2022
Wall Street Owns Elon Musk Now Panic that Twitter will be ruined gives the world’s richest man too much power.
By Kevin T. Dugan
wall street
Mar. 28, 2022
The New York Stock Exchange Is Investigating Why Shopify’s Stock Freaked Out Ken Griffin’s Citadel Securities is at the center of the probe into why the e-commerce company’s shares would jump about $100 in a minute.
By Kevin T. Dugan
the economy
Mar. 15, 2022
Modern Capitalism Is Weirder Than You Think Three asset managers now collectively own a big chunk of nearly every corporation. As a result, capitalism no longer works as advertised.
By Eric Levitz
the money game
Mar. 14, 2022
Goldman Sachs CEO Says Ostracizing Russia Isn’t the Finance Industry’s Job David Solomon framed his company’s withdrawal from the country as obeying the law, not a criticism of Russia or its aggression.
By Kevin T. Dugan
Why Wall Street Freaked Out This Week Nobody knows when the economy will get better.
By Kevin T. Dugan
wall street
Jan. 21, 2022
The End of the Pandemic Boom Is Nigh Netflix, Peloton, and other Wall Street winners of the pandemic economy are running out of steam.
By Kevin T. Dugan
the money game
Jan. 20, 2022
Last Sane Man on Wall Street Nathan Anderson made his name exposing — and betting against — corporate fraud. But short selling in a frothy pandemic economy can be ruinous.
By Andrew Rice
wall street
Jan. 19, 2022
BlackRock Is Going Viral on TikTok As a Free Place to Pee “You guys can all judge me if you want, but I do not care. I have never, ever been happier!”
By Kevin T. Dugan
wall street
Jan. 19, 2022
Are Wall Street Bankers Underpaid? Bank CEOs are complaining about pay, but workers in crypto and private equity are making more and having more fun.
By Kevin T. Dugan
Citi’s Savvy Slow-Roll of the Return to Office After poaching some of Wall Street’s stars with a reputation as the best WFH bank, they’re enforcing a vaccine mandate.
By Kevin T. Dugan
first person
Dec. 29, 2021
Good-bye, Goldman Sachs Getting a job there was a dream. The pandemic changed my perspective.
By Nathan Risser
the money game
Dec. 7, 2021
Why Wall Street Thinks Omicron Might Be Good News A JPMorgan report suggests the variant could “accelerate the end of the pandemic.” Stocks, of course, are soaring.
By Kevin T. Dugan
wall street
Nov. 19, 2021
Hey, That Bull Looks Familiar Brazil’s stock exchange is the latest to install a “Charging Bull” knockoff.
By Valeria Ricciulli
the money game
Nov. 18, 2021
Wall Streeters Are Scouting Condos and Yachts Ahead of Record Bonus Season “Then we got a Maserati, and then we got a Ferrari, and then we bought a new boat. Because you’re living your life.”
By Kevin T. Dugan
the money game
Oct. 21, 2021
What’s the Deal With Donald Trump’s SPAC? After a surprise announcement, a Trump-linked stock skyrocketed — tripling in price and drawing in waves of retail investors.
By Michelle Celarier
the money game
Oct. 17, 2021
Why the ‘Big Short’ Guys Think Bitcoin Is a Bubble Are they onto something huge again — or just fighting the last war?
By Michelle Celarier
the money game
Oct. 1, 2021
This 18-Year-Old TikTok Star Wants You to Start Trading With 500x Leverage Just another example of the kind of fishy financial advice kids are hearing on the platform.
By Kevin T. Dugan
the money game
Sept. 21, 2021
Why Trouble at a Chinese Real-Estate Company Led to a U.S. Stock Market Plunge Wall Street seems to be wrapping its head around just how fast things are changing in Xi’s China. Evergrande’s woes are emblematic of those changes.
By Kevin T. Dugan
the money game
Sept. 2, 2021
The Big SPAC Crackdown SPACs have seen a massive two-year boom, resulting in a wave of companies going public. That might be coming to an end.
By Michelle Celarier
the money game
July 23, 2021
The Not-So-Happy Story of the World’s Biggest SPAC Billionaire hedge-funder Bill Ackman and a gang of retail investors on Reddit were both very excited about a deal. Now, no one is.
By Jen Wieczner
the money game
June 2, 2021
Why a Failing New Jersey Deli Is Valued at $100 Million: A Theory It doesn’t make sense by any normal standards. But maybe it’s part of a larger game?
By Jen Wieczner
Litquidity Capital Is the Meme King of Wall Street Talking to the anonymous banker chronicling our weird, get-rich-quick economy.
By Jen Wieczner
Rich Investors Make a Poor Case Against Biden’s Tax Plan Wealthy capitalists warn that America cannot have shared prosperity unless they pay low taxes on income they didn’t work for. They are wrong.
By Eric Levitz
How Hollywood Depicted the New York Office It was where our dreams and anxieties unfolded.
By Jen Chaney
wall street
Apr. 22, 2021
Wall Street Spooked by Biden’s Tax Plan Investors fear the president’s new capital gains tax will hurt America’s salt-of-the-earth, hardly working millionaires.
By Eric Levitz
the money game
Apr. 14, 2021
Crypto’s Big, Billionaire-Making Day on Wall Street Coinbase’s Nasdaq debut made various Silicon Valley execs and VCs — along with investor Kevin Durant — very happy.
By Jen Wieczner
Bernie Madoff Told the Truth About One Thing He exposed the financial system as only a crook could.
By Steve Fishman
wall street
Feb. 23, 2021
Oatly Is Going Public Five years after taking over every fancy coffee shop, the oat-milk company could be worth billions on the Stock Exchange.
By Eve Peyser
movie review
Feb. 12, 2021
Louise Linton’s Sex-Cannibal Comedy Is Here, and It Is Not Good Me You Madness is a nonstop deluge of overwritten rants and underbaked humor.
By Bilge Ebiri
GameStop Rally Refuses to Die, As Robinhood Restores Trading Robinhood traders regained access to GME shares Thursday, while new details about the origins of the rally came to light.
By Eric Levitz
wall street
Jan. 29, 2021
The Final Boss Is Capitalism Who manipulates the manipulators? Not Reddit.
By Sarah Jones
Robinhood Banning GameStop Proves the Free Market Is a Lie When hedge-fund quants exploit vulnerabilities in the market, they’re celebrated as geniuses. When Redditors do the same thing, it’s a scandal.
By Eric Levitz
wall street
Jan. 28, 2021
By Benjamin Hart
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