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Using different email addresses and a lot of exclamation points, teenager Jonathan Lebed worked finance message boards in the morning before school and made nearly a million bucks. Then he made the head of the S.E.C. look like a fool.

Sitting alone in his San Jose office, Michael Burry saw the subprime bubble before anyone else. So he convinced Wall Street to let him bet on it, even though few were betting on him (a story excerpted from The Big Short).

On Jim Clark and the culture of Silicon Valley before the dot-com crash (the story that lead to The New New Thing).

Riots in Athens, the shadowy Vatopaidi monastery, and a quarter million dollars in debt for every citizen. Welcome to Greece.

The original article on Billy Beane and the Oakland A’s, published a month before the release of Moneyball.