The Journalist and the Pharma Bro
Why did Christie Smythe upend her life and stability for Martin Shkreli, one of the least-liked men in the world?
Hedge Fund
Hell Is Empty and All the Hedge Fund Managers Are at the Bellagio
A dispatch from Anthony Scaramucci’s SALT Conference.
Financiers Fight Over the American Dream
Bill Ackman’s hedge fund planned to make a fortune while doing good by exposing Herbalife as a scheme that preyed upon and lied to the poor. How one of the highest profile stock shorts in market history went awry.
Inside a Moneymaking Machine Like No Other
The Medallion Fund, a computer-driven hedge fund open to only 300 people, has produced about $55 billion in profit over the last 28 years. Almost nobody knows how they have done it.
A Tale of Money, Sex and Power: The Ellen Pao and Buddy Fletcher Affair
How Alphonse “Buddy” Fletcher Jr., an openly gay hedge fund star, came to marry Ellen Pao, a partner at a powerful Silicon Valley firm, before they “went to war with their elite worlds.”
California Goes Nuts
It takes a gallon of water to grow a single almond. Yet in drought-ravaged California, hedge funds are racing to plant as many new trees as they can.
The Hedge Fund and the Despot
The Wall Street firm that bailed out Robert Mugabe.
The $13 Billion Mystery Angels
The hedge funders who tried to give away a fortune anonymously.
Mastering the Machine
How Ray Dalio built the world’s richest and strangest hedge fund.
Pursuing Self-Interest in Harmony With the Laws of the Universe and Contributing to Evolution Is Universally Rewarded
On Ray Dalio, who built the world’s biggest hedge fund by running it like a cult.
The Magnetar Trade
A recent episode of This American Life was put together by reporters from Pro Publica based on this original reporting about the bubble-profiteering hedge fund Magnetar.
