The internet is changing everything we thought we knew about the value of stuff—from stocks, to flying cherub art, to cats with Pop-Tart bodies.

A mid-boom critique of New York City’s high-priced, mostly glass condo buildings.

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

Sitting alone in his San Jose office, Michael Burry saw the bubble in the subprime-mortgage market before anyone else. So he convinced Wall Street to let him bet on it, even though few were betting on him. The article that became The Big Short.

How Michael Lewis’s The Big Short became a Hollywood comedy.

A profile of jailed trader Tom Hayes, who was either behind the Libor scandal or became its fall guy.

When Carmen Segarra was hired to examine Goldman Sachs for the New York Fed, she bought a small recorder and began taping her meetings. Here is what she found before she was fired.

On the urge to live in a house you can't afford, the "acceptable lust" of American life.

How a disgraced principal-turned real estate mogul helped cause the global financial crisis.

When there are too few jobs for an entire generation.

On the dangerous state of U.K. banks—“an existential threat to British democracy, a more serious one than terrorism, either external or internal”—and how it can be fixed.

In Cyprus with those who lost big by simply depositing their savings with Laiki.

Libor, ISDAfix, and how the big banks do business.

The economics of Woonsocket, where one-third of residents rely on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.

Profiles of people who live in their car after losing almost everything during the Great Recession.

How an obscure Australian judge and a hard-charging lawyer put the S&P on trial for the global financial collapse.

Frank Firetti, a 54-year-old pool salesman in Virginia, and his fading American dream.

JPMorgan Chase’s $6 billion mistake and the woman who took the fall.

An assessment of the former Secretary of the Treasury.

"Before I met Ayn Rand, I was a logical positivist, and accordingly, I didn’t believe in absolutes, moral or otherwise. If I couldn’t prove a proposition with facts and figures, it was without merit. In the midst of a conversation, she said to me, “Do I understand the thrust of your position? You are not certain you exist?” I hesitated a moment, and I said, “I can’t be sure.” And she then said to me, “And who, by chance, is answering that question?” With that little exchange, she undermined the philosophical structure I had built for myself. "

How Wall Street thoroughly dominated Obama’s economic policy.

“Jon Corzine had never had anything to do with the futures business, had never run a public company, and hadn’t worked on Wall Street for a decade. His time there had ended badly. But by any reasonable standard, the former Goldman chief seemed almost embarrassingly overqualified. Says Flowers: ‘It seemed like we had more CEO than company.’”

The infuriating tale of Muncie, Indiana: When public institutions fail.

A fiction writer buys and loses a house in Oakland.