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How we make and spend money, and how economics influences the world around us.

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Why buying a house in the US is so hard right now

By Adam Freelander

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It’s just a tip

By Emily Stewart

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The Big Squeeze

By Emily Stewart

Billionaires had a surprisingly bad day in the Supreme Court

By Ian Millhiser December 5

The Supreme Court seeks a middle path between following the law and blowing up the government

By Ian Millhiser November 29

Elon Musk’s attempt to silence his critics will be heard by one of America’s worst judges

By Ian Millhiser November 28

Why Diet Coke got so expensive

By Emily Stewart November 28

The Supreme Court case seeking to shut down wealth taxes before they even exist

By Ian Millhiser November 27

The annoying — and hard to solve — problem of stolen packages

By Whizy Kim November 24

We’ve been fighting poverty all wrong

By Oshan Jarow November 20

Wages are rising. Jobs are plentiful. Nobody’s happy.

By Emily Stewart November 20

Formula 1 grew too fast. Now its new fans are tuning out.

By Izzie Ramirez November 18

The problem isn’t inflation. It’s prices.

By Emily Stewart November 14

You should probably buy less stuff

How and why to stop shopping for more than you need — or even want.

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The long, long Hollywood strikes have ended

By Alissa Wilkinson November 9

Why stop at the four-day workweek?

By Oshan Jarow November 9

What happened to Airbnb?

By Whizy Kim November 8

Biden’s new plan for student loan relief, explained

By Kevin Carey November 4

Sam Bankman-Fried’s trial pulled back the curtain on crypto

By Whizy Kim November 3

America’s shoplifting problem, explained by retail workers and thieves

By Emily Stewart November 2

One down, two to go: Autoworkers get a tentative deal with Ford

By Emily Stewart October 26

Going on strike is a risk

By Emily Stewart October 18

The author Michael Lewis on the lessons of Sam Bankman-Fried

By Sean Illing October 17

The Vox guide to open enrollment

Dental insurance isn’t a scam — but it’s also not insurance

By Emily Stewart October 16

Basic income is less radical than you think

By Oshan Jarow October 13

The actors strike negotiations have broken down

By Alissa Wilkinson October 12

Even for high earners, student loan repayment is crushing

By Whizy Kim October 6

Why 75,000 Kaiser Permanente workers have gone on strike

By Dylan Scott October 5

Rental cars, where the fees are limitless and a reservation is a little bit fake

By Emily Stewart October 5

The whole Taylor Swift-NFL cross-promotion thing is starting to feel icky

By Emily Stewart October 4

The Supreme Court’s uncharacteristic moment of sanity

By Ian Millhiser October 3

Why your $7 latte is $7

By Emily Stewart October 2

5 new books (and one very old one) to read in order to understand capitalism

By Noel King September 29

Dumb Money and what actually happened with GameStop, explained

By Emily Stewart September 29

The prices hospitals post online can be wildly different than what they tell patients over the phone

By Dylan Scott September 29

Twitter’s CEO had a wild, combative appearance at the Code conference

By Peter Kafka September 28

The Hollywood writers’ strike is over — and they won big

By Alissa Wilkinson and Emily Stewart September 28

Inside the very strange, very expensive race to “de-age”

By Whizy Kim September 26

Will the economy finally un-weird itself?

By Emily Stewart September 25

Everything you need to know to feel smart about the UAW strike

By Emily Stewart and Ellen Ioanes September 22

Why is Rupert Murdoch leaving his empire now?

By Peter Kafka September 21

We cut child poverty to historic lows, then let it rebound faster than ever before

By Oshan Jarow September 21

What’s the state of the Hollywood strikes?

By Alissa Wilkinson September 18