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Business World

Dirty Dollars

Accused money launderers left a path of bankrupt factories, shuttered buildings, and hundreds of steelworkers out of jobs.

Michael Sallah Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Apr 2021 30min Permalink

Business Politics

Waves of Abandonment

The Permian Basin is ground zero for a billion-dollar surge of zombie oil wells.

Clayton Aldern, Christopher Collins, Naveena Sadasivam Grist, Texas Observer Apr 2021 25min Permalink

Business Tech

Magical Thinking: Bitcoin Gathers at Disney

Bitcoin partying at an Orlando hotel with worshippers of the blockchain.

Sam Biddle Gawker Dec 2014 15min Permalink

Business Health

Poisoned

Hundreds of workers at a Tampa lead smelter have been exposed to dangerous levels of the neurotoxin. The consequences have been profound.

Corey G. Johnson, Rebecca Woolington, Eli Murray Tampa Bay Times Apr 2021 30min Permalink

Business

Bill Hwang Had $20 Billion, Then Lost It All in Two Days

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

Erik Schatzker, Sridhar Natarajan, Katherine Burton Bloomberg Businessweek Apr 2021 Permalink

Business Crime

Death of a (Really Good) Salesman

He was a powerful executive at some of the best-known companies in the world. Then he started robbing banks. The meteoric rise and dramatic fall of Steve Carroll, the high-flying corporate executive who wanted it all.

Jeff Gottlieb Truly*Adventurous Mar 2021 Permalink

Business

Walmart’s Company Town of Bentonville, Arkansas

Bentonville, Arkansas, is home to Walmart’s headquarters. It’s also a town in which the Walton Family Foundation works like a parallel state, creating a kind of twenty-first-century company town.

Stephanie Farmer Jacobin Mar 2021 25min Permalink

Business Health

America’s Covid Swab Supply Depends on Two Cousins Who Hate Each Other

The pandemic brought the business opportunity of a lifetime to Puritan Medical Products of Guilford, Maine. But even a $250 million infusion from the U.S. government has done little to quell an epic family feud.

Olivia Carville Bloomberg Business Mar 2021 20min Permalink

Business Health

Poisoned

Hundreds of workers at a Tampa lead smelter have been exposed to dangerous levels of the neurotoxin. The consequences have been profound.

Corey G. Johnson, Rebecca Woolington, Eli Murray Tampa Bay Times Mar 2021 25min Permalink

Business Tech Media

The Beauty of 78.5 Million Followers

How social media stars like Addison Rae gave the cosmetics industry a makeover.

Vanessa Grigoriadis New York Times Magazine Mar 2021 30min Permalink

Business

What Happens When Investment Firms Acquire Trailer Parks

The financial industry’s pursuit of profits from mobile-home communities is undermining one of the country’s largest sources of affordable housing.

Sheelah Kolhatkar New Yorker Mar 2021 20min Permalink

Business

Soho House Is Ready for Our Hedonistic, Champagne-Soaked Post-Pandemic Boom

A socially starved world might just be the best thing ever to happen to the private club empire — which is about to IPO.

Aaron Gell Marker Mar 2021 Permalink

Business Crime

Bad Birds in Quarantine

Struggling to go legal in the underworld of finch smuggling.

Kimon de Greef Guernica Mar 2021 15min Permalink

Business Health

Behind the Scenes at a Five-Star Hotel

For years, employees of the Pierre enjoyed some of the most enviable union jobs in New York City. How much of that will survive the pandemic?

Jennifer Gonnerman New Yorker Mar 2021 20min Permalink

Business

How Lease Deals Have Truckers Hauling a Load of Debt

Big-riggers who make sometimes less than minimum wage are locked legal fights with the unregulated leasing industry.

Alan Prendergast Westword Mar 2021 20min Permalink

Arts Business

GME, Doge, Supreme: How Getting Rich Went Full Internet

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.

Felix Salmon Wealthsimple Magazine Mar 2021 Permalink

Business

Beige Ambition

Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen grew up to make New York’s most desirable clothes. But can even perfection survive the pandemic?

Matthew Schneier The Cut Mar 2021 20min Permalink

Business World

The Rise of Made-in-China Diplomacy

While political leaders trade threats, the pandemic has made Americans even more reliant on China’s manufacturers.

Peter Hessler New Yorker Mar 2021 35min Permalink

Business

The Rich Vs the Very, Very Rich: The Wentworth Golf Club Rebellion

When a Chinese billionaire bought one of Britain’s most prestigious golf clubs in 2015, dentists and estate agents were confronted with the unsentimental force of globalized capital.

Samanth Subramanian Guardian Mar 2021 Permalink

Business

Buying High: How to Get Rich on Pot Stocks

Adventures with the Wolf of Weed Street.

Erik Hedegaard Men's Journal Nov 2014 20min Permalink

Business

Amazon’s Great Labor Awakening

Covid-19 has cemented the e-commerce giant’s hold on the economy — but it has also spurred employees all around the country to organize.

Erika Hayasaki New York Times Magazine Feb 2021 25min Permalink

Business

The Beach Bum Who Beat Wall Street and Made Millions on GameStop

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.

David Hill The Ringer Feb 2021 30min Permalink

Business

The Fight for Fifteen at an Orlando McDonald's

For some workers, the pandemic brought new meaning to a nationwide movement to raise the minimum wage.

Eleni Schirmer New Yorker Feb 2021 30min Permalink

Business

The Shocking Meltdown of Ample Hills

They had $19 million, a deal with Disney, and dreams of becoming the next Ben & Jerry’s. Then everything fell apart.

Courtney Rubin Marker Jan 2021 25min Permalink

Business

The Big Short War

On a battle between billionaire hedge-funders.

William D. Cohan Vanity Fair Apr 2013 30min Permalink

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