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

Mike McCaskill spent years scouring the stock market and betting on long shots. Then he found the opportunity that changed his life—and helped spark the mother of all short squeezes.

On a battle between billionaire hedge-funders.

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

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

An oral history of the day oil prices went below zero for the first time in trading history.

Sara Tirschwell accused her Wall Street boss of misconduct, but that was just the beginning of her troubles.

“Jeffrey Levitt stole and misappropriated a grand total of fourteen million, six hundred ninety-nine thousand, nine hundred forty-seven dollars and fifty-eight cents. He stole all that. It was the largest single white-collar crime in Maryland history, almost bringing down the state’s entire savings and loan industry.” And it still wasn’t enough.

Short-seller Andrew Left sniffs out corporate fraud—and gets rich doing it.

It took Nav Sarao a long time to accept that he might have been scammed out of $50 million.

On the parasitic relationship between oil and the stock market.

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 Raj Rajaratnam and a McKinsey chairman made millions off a maid.

Kate Matrosova was a classic overachiever and, at 32, had everything to live for. Still she set out alone into the mountains of New Hampshire—and a deadly storm.

Even for a high-powered “A-Type,” living on forged documentation is an endurance test.

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 central witness in “one of the biggest cases of white-collar crime in American history” speaks out.

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.

The Wall Street firm that bailed out Robert Mugabe.

The hedge funders who tried to give away a fortune anonymously.

How Brad Katsuyama, a trader at the sleepy Royal Bank of Canada, discovered that the stock market was rigged and assembled a team to change it.

Adapted from Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt.

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

Excerpted from Young Money.

On then-agent, now-congressman Michael Grimm and what happens when an F.B.I. informant turns out to be a con man.

A profile of the policy wonk who shone the light and turned the tide on overseas tax havens.

Shortly before leaving Goldman Sachs, Sergey Aleynikov downloaded around 32mb of source code from their high-frequency stock-trading system. Even as he was sent away for an eight year bid in federal prison, no one seemed to fully understand exactly what he did.