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Powder Keg

Johnson & Johnson knew for decades that asbestos lurked in its Baby Powder.

Lisa Girion Reuters Dec 2018 25min Permalink

Business

As Facebook Raised a Privacy Wall, It Carved an Opening for Tech Giants

Internal documents show that the social network gave Microsoft, Amazon, Spotify and others far greater access to people’s data than it has disclosed.

Gabriel J.X. Dance, Michael LaForgia, Nicholas Confessore New York Times Dec 2018 20min Permalink

Business Crime

Demon Underneath

The rise and fall of fraudster John DeLorean.

Alex Pappademas The Outline, Epic Dec 2018 50min Permalink

Best Article Business

A Business With No End

Inside the maze of an Amazon scam storefront empire.

Jenny Odell New York Times Nov 2018 25min Permalink

Business

The Triple Jeopardy of a Chinese Math Prodigy

A secretive hedge fund used the British court system to punish an IP thief‚ even though he was already in jail.

Kit Chellel, Jeremy Hodges Bloomberg Businessweek Nov 2018 20min Permalink

Business

The Predatory Lending Machine Crushing Small Businesses Across America

How an obscure legal document turned New York’s court system into a debt-collection machine.

Zachary R. Mider, Zeke Faux Businessweek Nov 2018 20min Permalink

Business Tech

Delay, Deny and Deflect: How Facebook’s Leaders Fought Through Crisis

On the lengths Mark Zuckberberg and Sheryl Sandberg have gone to protect their power.

Sheera Frenkel, Nicholas Confessore, Cecilia Kang, Matthew Rosenberg, Jack Nicas New York Times Nov 2018 25min Permalink

Business Crime

The War Inside 7-Eleven

The company has been battling its store owners for years, using tactics that include planting hidden cameras and and tailing franchisees in unmarked vehicles. It seems to have found a new tool: U.S. immigration authorities.

Lauren Etter, Michael Smith Businessweek Nov 2018 15min Permalink

Business

Working Through the Pain at Tesla

Inside Tesla’s factory, a medical clinic designed to ignore injured workers.

Will Evans Reveal Nov 2018 30min Permalink

Business Crime

The Unsolved Murder of an Unusual Billionaire

Last December, a Canadian pharmaceuticals executive and his wife were found strangled in their home. No one knows who did it or why, but everyone has a theory.

Matthew Campbell Businessweek Oct 2018 30min Permalink

Business World

The City That Had Too Much Money

Known abroad primarily for its stunning Pacific Coast setting and athletic lifestyle, the city [Vancouver] has since become one of the world’s largest sluices for questionable funds moving from Asia into Western economies.

Matthew Campbell, Natalie Obiko Pearson Bloomberg Businessweek Oct 2018 20min Permalink

Business Tech

The Prophets of Cryptocurrency Survey the Boom and Bust

Inside the ongoing argument over whether Bitcoin, Ethereum, and the blockchain are transforming the world.

Nick Paumgarten New Yorker Oct 2018 20min Permalink

Business Crime

Insider Trading’s Odd Couple: The Goldman Banker and the NFL Linebacker

Damilare Sonoiki and Mychal Kendricks made a very bad team.

Max Abelson, Felix Gillette Bloomberg Businessweek Sep 2018 10min Permalink

Business

How Puerto Rico Became the Newest Tax Haven for the Super Rich

A year after the tragedy of Hurricane Maria, the 51st state has become the favorite playground for extremely wealthy Americans looking to keep their money from the taxman. The only catch? They have to cut all ties to the mainland (wink, wink).

Jesse Barron GQ Sep 2018 20min Permalink

Business World

The Real Goldfinger: the London Banker Who Broke the World

The invention of offshore banking.

Oliver Bullough The Guardian Sep 2018 15min Permalink

Best Article Business

Americans Want to Believe Jobs Are the Solution to Poverty. They’re Not.

“We need a new language for talking about poverty. ‘Nobody who works should be poor,’ we say. That’s not good enough. Nobody in America should be poor, period.”

Matthew Desmond New York Times Magazine Sep 2018 20min Permalink

Business

The American Nightmare

More than 50 foreclosure stories have one word in common: Nightmare.

Desiree Stennett, Lisa Rowan The Penny Hoarder Aug 2018 30min Permalink

Business

Generation Underwater

How Washington left students to drown in debt.

Ryann Liebenthal Mother Jones Aug 2018 25min Permalink

Business Science

All Rise

How Viagra went from a medical mistake to a $3 billion industry.

David Kushner Esquire Aug 2018 15min Permalink

Best Article Business

Death, Redesigned

A few Silicon Valley executives are experimenting with mortality. “I don’t want death to be such a downer,” says one.

Jon Mooallem California Sunday Mar 2015 25min Permalink

Business

The Murder of Mill Town, USA

A dispatch from North Carolina.

Nick Martin Splinter Aug 2018 50min Permalink

Business

Paul Singer, Doomsday Investor

How an activist investor does business (and ruins lives).

Sheelah Kolhatkar New Yorker Aug 2018 40min Permalink

Business Music

Spotify's Playlist for Global Domination

“Success for us will be determined by our ability to move faster than everyone else in this space.”

Robert Safian Fast Company Aug 2018 25min Permalink

Business

The Big Business of Being Gwyneth Paltrow

Inside the growth of Goop — the most controversial brand in the wellness industry.

Taffy Brodesser-Akner New York Times Magazine Jul 2018 35min Permalink

Business World

How E-Commerce Is Transforming Rural China

JD.com is expanding its consumer base with drone delivery and local recruits who can exploit villages’ tight-knit social networks to drum up business.

Jiayang Fan New Yorker Jul 2018 30min Permalink

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