Fiction Pick of the Week: "Deficit"
A need for money causes interpersonal confusion.
Money
There's No Such Thing as a Free Watch
On July 2017, a visitor to the Museum of Capitalism contributed a watch (from here on referred to as 'our watch') to the museum’s artifact drive. In his form, he noted that Folsom & Co., a supposedly San Francisco-based company, used Instagram to offer the watch 'free,' but with $7 shipping.
The Mystery of the Millionaire Hermit
He spent years scrimping and saving. But without a will, where’s his money going?
How to Win Founders and Influence Everybody
Margit Wennmachers is Andreessen Horowitz’s secret weapon.
Beyond the Bitcoin Bubble
Can blockchain create a new, better internet?
The Numbers King
The billionaire founder of Renaissance Technologies turns to science.
How Two Brothers Turned Seven Lines of Code Into a $9.2 Billion Startup
Inside Stripe’s battle to upend the online payments world.
Hell Is Empty and All the Hedge Fund Managers Are at the Bellagio
A dispatch from Anthony Scaramucci’s SALT Conference.
"Until I Was 44, I Never Even Had a Savings Account"
The author on his relationship with money.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Signal"
A mystery unfolds in an English mansion.
A Shot in the Arm
How did a tenure-track professor wind up selling his plasma? A story about debt.
When Bitcoin Grows Up
Money is an idea that we all agree to believe in.
Coyote Bros
How three friends and a team of frat brothers made a fortune smuggling people along the most heavily patrolled stretch of highway in Texas.
The Man Who Made Millions Off the Afghan War
How a young Afghan trucking-company owner became spectacularly rich.
This Australian Says He and His Dead Friend Invented Bitcoin
Uncovering the true identity of Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonymous creator of Bitcoin.
