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What does it mean to give away a $118 billion fortune?

Jeff Bezos has committed to giving most of his money to charity, making him the latest mega-philanthropist. Some people in philanthropy and activist circles are skeptical.

By Whizy Kim

Sam Bankman-Fried’s arrest is the culmination of an epic flameout

After quickly amassing political and philanthropic influence, the former billionaire has been arrested for fraud.

By Whizy Kim

Stop taking billionaires at their word

By Rebecca Jennings

The young, rich, anti-capitalist capitalists

By Whizy Kim

The government detectives and private eyes of the bitcoin age

By Rebecca Heilweil

The high price of a crypto salary

By Rebecca Heilweil

Feds are seizing cryptocurrency from criminals. Now they have to figure out what to do with it.

By Rebecca Heilweil

AI poses risks, but the White House says regulators shouldn’t “needlessly hamper” innovation

By Rebecca Heilweil

Money Talks: They laid out finances on their first date. Then they retired at 38 and 41.

By Nicole Dieker

Money Talks: She moved home to save money — and her mom never wants her to leave

By Julie Vadnal

How to be more frugal (without seeming like a cheapskate)

By Megan McDonough

Money Talks: one spouse had student loans, the other paid it all off

By Julie Vadnal

One out of every 11,600 people in San Francisco is a billionaire

By Theodore Schleifer

Why Bitcoin is bullshit, explained by an expert

By Sean Illing

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Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook’s hardest year, and what comes next

By Ezra Klein

The real cost of the Republican tax cuts

By Jason Furman and Greg Leiserson

Trump’s economists say a corporate tax cut will raise wages by $4,000. It doesn’t add up.

By Kimberly Clausing and Edward Kleinbard

This year’s economics Nobel winner invented a tool that’s both brilliant and undemocratic

By Henry Farrell

3 winners and 2 losers from Apple’s September iPhone event

By Matthew Yglesias

The new iPhone X, explained

By Matthew Yglesias

Everything Apple has announced at today’s iPhone event

By Matthew Yglesias

Seattle should make a pitch to be Amazon’s 2nd headquarters

By Matthew Yglesias

Trump says the US has the highest corporate tax rate in the world. He's wrong.

By Zeeshan Aleem

Hurricane Harvey is a humanitarian disaster. It will also send gas prices soaring.

By Zeeshan Aleem

Why I’m skeptical that robots will take all our jobs

By Ezra Klein

Behind the Google diversity memo furor is fear of Google’s vast, opaque power

By Ezra Klein

The real reason women are underrepresented in Silicon Valley engineering jobs

By Alexia Fernández Campbell

Twitter is fighting over whether the Google memo was free speech or discrimination

By Garet Williams

Is Ronald Reagan to blame for the decline of St. Louis? Some experts think so.

By Timothy B. Lee

“Silicon Valley is going to do fine”: why investors aren't too worried about Donald Trump

By Timothy B. Lee

The end of the internet startup

By Timothy B. Lee

A record-breaking Australian battery deal shows Tesla is moving beyond cars

By Timothy B. Lee

Every new Volvo will be a hybrid or electric car after 2019

By Timothy B. Lee

Car companies' vision of a gradual transition to self-driving cars has a big problem

By Timothy B. Lee

Yelp’s CEO makes the case against Google's search monopoly

By Timothy B. Lee

A strange new kind of ransomware is sweeping the internet

By Timothy B. Lee

Mark Zuckerberg's probably nonexistent 2020 presidential campaign, explained

By Timothy B. Lee

Why the EU's massive antitrust fine could become a huge headache for Google

By Timothy B. Lee

The most important stories of the week, explained

By Matthew Yglesias

Uber needs to stop trying to conquer the world

By Timothy B. Lee

Uber drivers have some ideas about how the company can fix itself

By Alexia Fernández Campbell

Uber CEO Travis Kalanick is quitting. His successor will face big challenges.

By Timothy B. Lee