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How you can help the victims of the earthquake in Turkey and Syria

How to help — and how not to — in the aftermath of a natural disaster.

By Kelsey Piper

The AI boom is here, and so are the lawsuits

What can Napster tell us about the future?

By Peter Kafka

The death of the customer service hotline

By Emily Stewart

FairTax, the GOP plan for a 30 percent national sales tax, explained

By Dylan Matthews

The Federal Reserve is starting a climate experiment

By Umair Irfan

The big problem with any debt ceiling fix

By Dylan Matthews

Wages are still growing rapidly. The Fed wants them to slow down.

By Madeleine Ngo

The US just hit the debt limit. What happens now?

By Madeleine Ngo

Fears of a white-collar recession are overblown

By Emily Stewart

Inflation is cooling. Why are egg prices still so hard to crack?

By Emily Stewart

Your credit card rewards might not be worth it

By Emily Stewart

3 charts that explain what’s happening with US inflation

By Madeleine Ngo

Job interviews are a nightmare — and only getting worse

By Emily Stewart

Travel is almost back to pre-Covid levels. So are carbon dioxide emissions.

By Umair Irfan

Bed Bath & Beyond and bankrupt?

By Emily Stewart

4 changes in the labor market that could signal a recession

By Madeleine Ngo

The ultrarich are getting cozy in America’s tax havens at everyone else’s expense

By Whizy Kim

Your stuff is actually worse now

By Izzie Ramirez

3 different paths the economy could take in 2023

By Madeleine Ngo

Big Tech’s Big Flops of 2022

By Sara Morrison

The money party is over

By Emily Stewart

Trump’s tax returns are about to become public. What happens now?

By Nicole Narea

A joke with a literal cost

By Emily Stewart

The last time the Fed curbed inflation without crashing the economy, explained

By Madeleine Ngo

A practical guide to getting laid off

By Allie Volpe

Americans are draining the money they saved during the pandemic

By Madeleine Ngo

The weird Republican turn against corporate social responsibility

By Rebecca Leber

The people who hate Sam Bankman-Fried the most

By Peter Kafka

We forgot to fix unemployment insurance yet again

By Emily Stewart

The economy just doesn’t make sense anymore

By Emily Stewart

Here’s what employers are cutting instead of your job

By Rani Molla

Want to donate to charity? Here are 10 guidelines for giving effectively.

By Dylan Matthews and Sigal Samuel

Why the global economy is slowing

By Madeleine Ngo

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The collapse of FTX and Sam Bankman-Fried’s shocking downfall

By Vox Staff

“Stealing customers’ money is a tale as old as time.”

By Rebecca Heilweil

Silicon Valley layoffs aren’t just a cost-cutting measure. They’re a culture reset.

By Amanda Lewellyn

Sam Bankman-Fried tries to explain himself

By Kelsey Piper

Welcome to the crypto ice age

By Miles Bryan

Easy ways to organize your digital life, from photos to emails

By Allie Volpe

How economists know whether inflation is getting better

By Madeleine Ngo

Basically everything on Amazon has become an ad

By Jason Del Rey

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The state of the economy on Election Day, explained in 6 numbers

By Madeleine Ngo