Tax Arcana

Caribbean tax shelters suddenly shocked that they have crippling deficits

bloomberg.com Discussion
Crime And/Or Punishment

Former Goldman director Rajat Gupta gets 2 years in prison for insider trading

dealbook.nytimes.com Discussion
Startups

"What Silicon Valley still calls 'Disruption' has evolved into something very sinister indeed"

pandodaily.com Discussion
New Normal

Neither candidate has discussed America's biggest challenge: A decade of income stagnation

nytimes.com Discussion

Long Reads

Long Reads

Nate Silver and the renaissance of political prediction markets

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felix salmon: “Silver doesn’t think what he does for a living is complex, which is why he compares it to rocket science”: http://t.co/6NBId6M4
Long Reads

Romney's Bain helped Philip Morris find a new generation of "replacement smokers"

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delong: Mitt Romney's Bain Helped Philip Morris Get U.S. High Schoolers Hooked On Cigarettes http://t.co/thxP5Z1l
Long Reads

How Bain made millions convincing Russians to smoke

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Ryan McCarthy: How Bain made millions convincing Russians to smoke http://t.co/3zaZ07kR by @jasoncherkis @zachdcarter
Long Reads

Taleb on Rubin: "Nobody on this planet represents more vividly the scam of the banking industry"

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Long Reads

The giant medical company that ran illegal, deadly bone cement tests on humans

features.blogs.fortune.cnn.com Discussion Tweet This
Max Abelson: "One of the wealthiest men in the world," Johnson & Johnson, cement, and "experimenting on humans," from @MINAKIMES! http://t.co/VsVMQx8x
Long Reads

Michael Lewis's huge new Vanity Fair profile of President Obama

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Ben Smith: thread that runs thru Lewis Obama profile is political importance that no Americans got hurt in Libya via @thegarance http://t.co/iNEDa3oJ
Long Reads

"There's no such thing as an assault rifle" - Where America shops for guns

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It's an election year and gun sales are soaring again
Long Reads

The problem with billionaire "donor maintenance"

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Long Reads

"As a political issue, especially during this presidential campaign season, poverty has receded almost to silence"

nytimes.com Discussion Tweet This
LindseyChrist "Three years ago, just one [NYC] school had 100% poverty. Now 5 do. In 2009, 15 schools had 97% poverty or more. Now 43 schools do."
Long Reads

A mega-mall isn't all -- the multi-billion dollar business of the Mormon Church

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Binyamin Appelbaum: "When it came time to cut the mall’s flouncy pink ribbon [Mormon Pres.] Monson cheered, '1, 2, 3—let’s go shopping!'” http://t.co/qNsWC2E1