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Business

Bill Hwang Had $20 Billion, Then Lost It All in Two Days

The fast rise and even faster fall of a trader who bet big with borrowed money.

Erik Schatzker, Sridhar Natarajan, Katherine Burton Bloomberg Businessweek Apr 2021 Permalink

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Been Down So Long It Looks Like Debt to Me

An American family’s struggle for student loan redemption.

M.H. Miller The Baffler Jul 2018 20min Permalink

Business Travel

The Man Who Turned Credit-Card Points Into an Empire

Brian Kelly, The Points Guy, has created an empire dedicated to maximizing credit-card rewards and airline miles. What are they worth in a global pandemic — and why are they worth anything at all?

Jamie Lauren Keiles New York Times Magazine Jan 2021 35min Permalink

Business

The Only One in the Room

On Wall Street, being Black often means being alone, held back, deprived of the best opportunities.

Max Abelson, Sonali Basak, Kelsey Butler, Matthew Leising, Jenny Surane, Gillian Tan Bloomberg Aug 2020 30min Permalink

Business

How Two Brothers Turned Seven Lines of Code Into a $9.2 Billion Startup

Inside Stripe’s battle to upend the online payments world.

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Ashlee Vance Bloomberg Businessweek Aug 2017 25min Permalink

The Secret Shame of Middle-Class Americans

“Nearly half of Americans would have trouble finding $400 to pay for an emergency. I’m one of them.”

Neal Gabler The Atlantic Apr 2016 25min Permalink

Business

How Two Guys Lost God and Found $40 Million

They were raised Hasidic in Brooklyn. Now Abe Zeines and Meir Hurwitz live a decadent, booze-filled life in Puerto Rico. They are in their early 30s and rich enough to retire, while Wall Street is busy adopting the shady loan scheme they pioneered.

Zeke Faux Businessweek Oct 2015 15min Permalink

The Whistleblower’s Tale

When an accountant decided to call foul on Halliburton’s financial record-keeping, he thought he was doing the right thing. He spent 10 years fighting for the courts to agree.

Jesse Eisinger ProPublica Apr 2015 20min Permalink

Business Crime

The Empire of Edge

How a doctor and an S.A.C. trader got entangled in a financial scandal.

Patrick Radden Keefe New Yorker Oct 2014 50min Permalink

Business

What I Saw When I Crashed a Wall Street Secret Society

The first known infiltration of the finance fraternity Kappa Beta Phi.

Excerpted from Young Money.

Kevin Roose New York Feb 2014 10min Permalink

Business

A Tale of Two Londons

“We can conclude at least two things with certainty about the tenants of One Hyde Park: they are extremely wealthy, and most of them don’t want you to know who they are and how they got their money.”

Nicholas Shaxson Vanity Fair Mar 2013 25min Permalink

Business

Even Artichokes Have Doubts

A Yale student on why nearly a quarter of her classmates will end up working for Wall Street.

Marina Keegan The Yale Daily News Sep 2011 15min Permalink