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Why Corrupt Bankers Avoid Jail
In the summer of 2012, a subcommittee of the U.S. Senate released a report so brimming with international intrigue that it read like an airport paperback. Senate investigators had spent a year looking into the London-based banking group HSBC, and…
Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?
One day last summer, around noon, I called Athena, a 13-year-old who lives in Houston, Texas. She answered her phone—she's had an iPhone since she was 11—sounding as if she'd just woken up. We chatted about her favorite songs and TV…
an interactive guide to the game theory of why & how we trust each other…
very cool interactive guide on game theory/trust—TK
Electric-Car Revolution Is Shaking Up the Biggest Metals Markets
The revolution in electric vehicles set to upturn industries from energy to infrastructure is also creating winners and losers within the world's biggest metals markets. While some of the largest diversified miners like Glencore Plc argue fossil…
long lithium, copper—TK
Oh me! Oh life! of the questions of these recurring, Of the endless trains of the faithless, of cities fill'd with the foolish, Of myself forever reproaching myself, (for who more foolish than I, and who more faithless?) Of eyes that vainly crave…
Summer of Samsung: A Corruption Scandal, a Political Firestorm-and a Record Profit
“How long does a horse live?” On a Friday in June, Jay Y. Lee, the de facto head of the Samsung conglomerate, is enduring another afternoon at the Central District Court in Seoul, listening to the prosecution quiz a witness about the…
The Unreformed Stock Picker: Without A Boss Bill Miller Is Betting On Amazon, Bitcoin And Bob Dylan
In the living room of his seven-room Park Avenue apartment, 67-year-old investing legend Bill Miller wears a slightly rumpled black golf shirt underneath a blue-and-gray checkered blazer from. On walls painted burgundy and colonial blue hang oil…
One evening last November, a fifty-four-year-old woman from the Bronx arrived at the emergency room at Columbia University's medical center with a grinding headache. Her vision had become blurry, she told the E.R. doctors, and her left hand felt…
How Russia is using LinkedIn to harass and intimidate Putin's U.S. critics
One night in mid-March, Alan Malcher, a British military veteran, dropped into the Queen's Arms, a working-class pub in north London. He took a seat at the bar and ordered his customary pint of Foster's. Within a few minutes, a stranger sidled up…
Departing AP reporter looks back at Venezuela's slide
The first thing the muscled-up men did was take my cellphone. They had stopped me on the street as I left an interview in the hometown of the late President Hugo Chavez and wrangled me into a black SUV. Heart…