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

He was one of the crypto industry’s biggest stars. Now his crypto exchange, FTX, has filed for bankruptcy.

By Vox Staff

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

Sam Bankman-Fried’s rapid fall has brought the debate over how to regulate crypto to the forefront.

By Rebecca Heilweil

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

By Amanda Lewellyn November 17

Sam Bankman-Fried tries to explain himself

By Kelsey Piper November 16

Welcome to the crypto ice age

By Miles Bryan November 16

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

By Allie Volpe November 12

How economists know whether inflation is getting better

By Madeleine Ngo November 10

Basically everything on Amazon has become an ad

By Jason Del Rey November 10

The 2022 midterm elections, explained

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

By Madeleine Ngo November 6

What Congress could actually do about inflation

By Madeleine Ngo November 3

The ugly story of how corporate America convinced us to spend so much on water

By Emily Stewart November 3

The messy true story of the last time we beat inflation

By Alex Yablon November 2

The planned Penguin Random House-Simon & Schuster merger has been struck down in court

By Constance Grady November 1

How to start saving and investing money — even amid economic uncertainty

By Tatiana Walk-Morris November 1

Rich crypto executives really want voters to care about crypto. Good luck with that.

By Rebecca Heilweil October 31

What aren’t we doing to fix inflation?

By Emily Stewart October 31

The Big Tech boom is over and Wall Street knows it

By Peter Kafka October 29

Where do restaurant “service fees” really go?

By Rani Molla October 28

How to make sense of the positive GDP report

By Madeleine Ngo October 27

Is the cure for inflation worse than the disease?

By Rachel M. Cohen October 26

The 2022 midterm elections, explained

Beto O’Rourke can’t win without suburban women. They don’t seem sold.

By Nicole Narea October 26

Biden has ambitious infrastructure goals. Made-in-America rules could slow them.

By Madeleine Ngo October 26

Why fighting inflation will disproportionately hurt Black workers

By Miles Bryan October 22

America’s Trumpiest court just declared an entire federal agency unconstitutional

By Ian Millhiser October 20

The Future Perfect 50

Skanda Amarnath is figuring out how to fight inflation while keeping people employed

By Dylan Matthews October 20

Oops, we forgot to fix the supply chain

By Rebecca Heilweil October 19

The 2022 midterm elections, explained

Why Cheri Beasley might be Democrats’ most underrated Senate candidate

By Nicole Narea October 18

Is the stimulus to blame for high inflation?

By Madeleine Ngo October 17

Why food keeps getting more expensive

By Madeleine Ngo October 13

OPEC was always going to mess with oil prices. Was Biden’s team naive?

By Jonathan Guyer October 7

The pandemic could have changed how employers think about layoffs

By Madeleine Ngo October 7

Elon Musk wants to buy Twitter again, spam bots and all

By Peter Kafka October 6

You know what your wedding doesn’t need? Doughnut walls.

By Emily Stewart October 6

The UK’s growing economic crisis, explained

By Ellen Ioanes October 1

Tech billionaires lost $315 billion in 2022 and it genuinely doesn’t matter

By Whizy Kim September 29

The mysterious ad slump of 2022

By Peter Kafka September 28

The child care crisis just keeps getting worse

By Rachel M. Cohen September 27

“The party is over”: How Meta and Google are using recession fears to clean house

By Shirin Ghaffary September 22

Mandatory overtime is garbage

By Emily Stewart September 22

How interest rate hikes ripple throughout the economy

By Madeleine Ngo September 21

Rising rent prices are keeping inflation high

By Madeleine Ngo September 14

What the high-profile layoffs at Snap, Netflix, and other companies could mean for the economy

By Madeleine Ngo September 12