Felix Salmon

Even by the standards of media dealmaking, this is an astonishingly convoluted deal, featuring highly sophisticated players — TPG and Charlie Ergen — who, despite being on opposite sides of the table, are teaming up to get concessions from an equally sophisticated group of bondholders.

One of the biggest inefficiencies in the nonprofit world is the fact that charities are rewarded for fundraising prowess more than they are for their skill at making the world a better place.

On Wednesday, Paul Milgrom will become the first Nobel economics laureate to win an Emmy , in a sign of just how omnipresent his field of auction design has become.

Silicon Valley now arguably boasts "the most powerful political operation in the nation."

Citigroup is too big to manage — at least according to Sen. Elizabeth Warren, who wrote a pointed letter last week to Michael Hsu, the acting head of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, the bank's primary regulator

Houses have historically been a key driver of middle-class wealth creation — but when some or all of your house gets destroyed in a flood, it feels less like an asset and more like a liability.

Last week, the entire country of China somehow became a meme stock. Now the party looks as though it's over — for the time being.

If you bought a diamond this year, there's a roughly 50% chance it was manufactured in a laboratory.

You can't really buy stuff with it, but tech investors Ben Horowitz and Chris Dixon make a case for blockchain.

Remember virtual credit cards ? Well they're back, they're more popular than ever — and very few consumers are using them.