An artifact from the era when MySpace was king.

An entrepreneurial primer from the founder of 37Signals. “So here’s a great way to practice making money: Buy and sell the same thing over and over on Craigslist or eBay. Seriously.”

On who will bear the burden of the financial crisis facing cities across America. “Will it be articulated in terms of bond defaults or larger kindergarten classes—or no kindergarten classes at all?”

A profile of Jack Dorsey, co-founder (and displaced CEO) of Twitter. Dorsey’s latest venture, a mobile credit card system called Square that only officially launched in February 2011, already processes more than a million transactions per day.

Relative to the total national income, American corporations are making more money than they have since 1947. The connection behind soaring profits and stagnant unemployment.

“One evening, my home phone rang. ‘You have a collect call from Bernard Madoff, an inmate at a federal prison,’ a recording announced. And there he was.”

“The entire system set up to monitor and regulate Wall Street is fucked up. Just ask the people who tried to do the right thing.”

How the Weinstein Brothers barked their way into an empire and then lost it.

A look at the legislative lobbying efforts of Michael Bloomberg’s $7 billion-per-year company. While the mayor has no specific day-to-day role at Bloomberg LP, he maintains “the type of involvement that he believes is consistent with his being the majority shareholder.”

A primer on income inequality in America.

A newly minted, 34-year-old White House budget director gets a little too candid with a reporter profiling him during Ronald Reagan’s first year in office. Among Stockman’s many admissions: “None of us really understands what’s going on with all these numbers.”

On the group of friends who came to rule the bizarre, decreasingly lucrative world of Internet porn.

How a nation went bankrupt. “Ireland’s regress is especially unsettling because of the questions it raises about Ireland’s former progress: even now no one is quite sure why the Irish suddenly did so well for themselves in the first place.”

On the pair of entrepreneurs behind a Wal-Mart of weed in Oakland. The duo is talking IPO. “Everybody I was meeting was a little bit older, more a part of the hippie generation,” says one. “I was like, ‘I bet there’s so much room for innovation and new ideas.’”

Obama’s presidency may well be defined by whether or not he can curb unemployment. Step One: find a decent idea.

How the dream of the Euro became a nightmare.

On the political climate in Arizona.

On the (disputed) origins of the Huffington Post.

On the gap between how the world sees Goldman Sachs and how Goldman Sachs sees itself.

An archaeology of debt.

The profile that led to the Massey Energy CEO’s resignation.

A tech neophyte looks for answers in Silicon Valley, “the last place in America where people are this optimistic.”

Nick Denton is rebooting his entire Gawker empire—and his vision is drawn more from TV than blogs.

What happened to the minds behind Napster, Gnutella, WinAmp, and BitTorrent after their creations irrevocably changed business and culture.

Its editors still live in different cities, still work different careers, and still treat Boing Boing as a (lucrative) hobby.