Economics & Finance
- San Francisco Onion Futures Company
- US Treasuries Have Become Unappetizing for Foreign Central Banks and Governments
- Nvidia is the central bank of AI
- Diesel prices in U.S. top $6 a gallon for first time
- The same nine streaming subscriptions cost $702/year more than in 2021
- Investing in mothers? The long-run impact of a universal child care
- What do Visa and Mastercard do? An intro to card networks
- South African diamond mines are closing due to weak sales and lab-grown stones
- Netherlands pulls gold out of the US
- Why are European countries moving their gold out of North America?
- VC isn't VC anymore
- Dutch central bank moves share of gold from U.S., Canada to London
- True Rate of Unemployment
- The Tariff Cost: analysis of the costs to Americans from new tariffs on Canada
- Wiped out: US faces surging toilet paper prices amid trade war with Canada
- How credit card rewards became a $9.2B wealth transfer
- The treasury bond mess: is this the demise of the US as a safe haven?
- Rural Village in Spain Is Welcoming Digital Nomads with Open Arms
- Scrap (2006)
- US debt has hit $40tn - Will that be a wake-up call?
- U.S. Debt Hits $40T as America's Borrowing Binge Continues
- Sticky wage norms and the real wage cost of unexpected inflation
- India has paved the way for charging merchants a fee on UPI transactions
- People are worried about America's solvency
- Stop Turning every purchase into a tip request
- Jane Street suffers $15B hit after meltdown at Situational Awareness
- When Genius Fails: The Intellectual Arrogance of the AI Labs
- Deutsche Bank becomes first foreign yuan clearing bank in Europe
- People who grew up with high economic connectedness earn more
- Mars Bar from 1991 found – and it's 20g bigger than today's
- Why do we assume everyone should be working?
- Poland now 6th-largest EU economy, ahead of Switzerland and Belgium
- Why Wall Street is ignoring big tech's debt [video]
- Tax cuts for the wealthy only benefit the rich (2023)
- Adults over 65 will outnumber children by 2029
- U.S. economy lost 23,000 jobs in July, a sudden reversal
- US beef prices have soared but farmers aren't making more money
- Why Do Fewer Renters Expect to Move?
- How Americans view capitalism, socialism and free enterprise
- After Losses, Retail Investors Flock to 3x Leverage as 2x Product Are Restricted
- The AI Demand Bubble
- AI's debt binge can't last, hidden borrowing reaches $1.65T
- The AI bubble is popping; we just don't know it yet
- US Treasury undertakes historic intervention in yen market
- AI financial advice is surprisingly good, especially if you ask right questions
- The great wealth transfer reality check
- U.S. debt-to-GDP ratio reaches 123%
- Situational Awareness down 67% in July in AI stock rout
- The AI trade now runs on borrowed money, and the lenders are repricing it
- After the AI Crash
- I'm 38 and I Can't Support Myself Anymore
- Decathlon Germany adds Wero payment option to decathlon.de website
- The relay market powering token resellers and fraud
- Future euro banknote design proposals
- Private healthcare makes industries less innovative. It's time for change
- AI Companies Are Trying to Hide a Staggering Amount of Debt
- Google’s ATLAS is a look at how people are using AI
- New US homeownership measure puts people first
- Five US tech giants' hidden debts soar to $1.65T on opaque AI funding
- My husbands suicide shows theres something very wrong with US insurance industry
- US gas prices hit an average of $4 a gallon again
- Young adults are poor despite every metric which suggests otherwise
- The US grocery slowdown is real
- Short sellers notch $8.7B profit as SpaceX shares dip to IPO price
- 42% of adults rely on their parents for financial support
- America pays workers just 27% of what its wealth allows – the worst in the OECD
- Financing the AI boom: from cash flows to debt [pdf]
- Berkshire's $397B Bet Against an Overheated Market
- UPI: Anatomy of a Payment Transaction
- Why it's so difficult to produce American-made medical gloves
- Why American ambulance rides are so expensive
- Mapping homes you can buy from the US government for <$100k
- As downtown Seattle offices empty, city facing years of 'zombie' towers
- Markets are competitive if and only if P != NP
- Job seekers giving up: Labor force participation falls to lowest in 50 years
- Monetization Gateway: Charge for any resource behind Cloudflare via x402
- The labor share of income in the US is at its lowest post-war level
- In San Francisco, even $180k tech salaries are no longer enough
- Mag 7 starting to underperform [pdf]
- AI boom risks global financial crash, warn central bankers
- Venezuela reveals $240B in debt it cannot pay (~$100B more than expected)
- Digital euro clears key hurdle as EU seeks to break free from U.S. credit cards
- Crypto in 2026: Oh, This Is the Bad Place
- Pledging another $400k to the Zig software foundation
- Alan Greenspan has died
- Rent collections are down in New York
- Americans express unease over SpaceX's influence on retirement savings
- The room the economy can't see
- The founder of Craigslist has given away half a billion dollars
- Wages in America Are Too Low for the 30% Rule to Work for Renters Anymore
- Challenging the Narrative of European Decline
- Why do commercial spaces sit vacant? (2025)
- Peopleless economy? Not technically impossible
- How to earn a billion dollars
- The redistribution of housing wealth caused by rent control (2023) [pdf]
- Core PPI up 9.6% annualized (0.8% MoM) in May
- Providers, not insurers, are responsible for excess U.S. health care cost (2024)
- US Consumer Price Index up 4.2%
- Britain’s output per person is now only just above that of Mississippi
- Brexit Ten Years On: The Economy
- AI is slowing down
- S&P 500 rejects SpaceX, also blocking entry for OpenAI and Anthropic
- Gov.uk has replaced Stripe with Dutch provider Adyen
- India's surprise baby bust
- Do we need billionaires?
- What happens if Japan takes in zero immigrants?
- SpaceX, Other Mega IPOs Denied Fast Index Entry by S&P
- Bitcoin Has Longest Losing Streak Since August in Bruising Week
- American capitalism has taken an apocalyptic turn
- Can the stockmarket swallow Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI?
- Anthropic confidentially submits draft S-1 to the SEC
- Hormuz crisis side effect: a sharp rise in container shipping rates
- Robinhood now lets your AI agents trade stocks
- Tulip mania: when a single flower was worth more than a house (2025)
- Where are the economies of scale in homebuilding?
- Private equity bought America's essential services
- Stripe is friendly to “friendly fraud”
- The real cost of owning a home
- Is AI Profitable Yet?
- How to convert between wealth and income tax
- Why Japanese companies do so many different things
- Spotify will start reserving concert tickets for fans
- Who wins and who loses in prediction markets? Evidence from Polymarket
- What is a Demand Coop
- Goodbye Visa and Mastercard: 130M Europeans switching to sovereign payment
- Who will buy your services if you fire us all?
- Germany goes from labour shortages to hiring freezes
- We don't know why Malawi is poor
- Trade Dollars with other startups. Book it as revenue
- "Not Medically Necessary": Helping America's Health Insurers Deny Coverage
- Kickstarter is forced to ban adult content by payment processors
- US inflation jumps to 3.8% as energy costs surge from Iran war
- Houses are for living, not for speculation
- Poland is now among the 20 largest economies
- Brazil's Pix payment system faces pressure from Visa and Mastercard
- Grand Theft Oil Futures: Insider traders keep making a killing at our expense
- Life During Class Wartime
- California farmers to destroy 420k peach trees following Del Monte bankruptcy
- How Monero’s proof of work works
- U.S. Debt Tops 100% of GDP
- Bankruptcies increase 11.9 percent
- I built "Middle Class Museum", a tour of things that used to be affordable
- Canada's first sovereign wealth fund
- The operating cost of adult and gambling startups
- San Diego rents declined following surge in supply
- California has more money than projected after admin miscalculated state budget
- Brands got worse on purpose
- Monero Community Crowdfunding System
- America will come to regret its war on taxes
- America Lost the Mandate of Heaven
- Hyperscalers have already outspent most famous US megaprojects
- The "Passive Income" trap ate a generation of entrepreneurs
- Where did my taxes go?
- NYC to open municipal grocery store in 2027
- Nothing Ever Happens: Polymarket bot that always buys No on non-sports markets
- The AI Layoff Trap
- Bitcoin miners are losing on every coin produced as difficulty drops
- Polymarket gamblers betting millions on war
- Women are getting most of the new jobs. What's going on with men?
- Many African families spend fortunes burying their dead
- Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? My quest to unmask Bitcoin's creator
- Is Germany's gold safe in New York ?
- France pulls last gold held in US
- Student Debt Burdened Them, So They Moved Abroad and Stopped Paying
- Gold overtakes U.S. Treasuries as the largest foreign reserve asset
- Inside Nepal's Fake Rescue Racket
- U.S. stocks are set to deliver their worst quarter in nearly four years
- Car Seats as Contraception
- 72% of the dollar's purchasing power was destroyed in just four episodes
- How the AI Bubble Bursts
- Goldman Sachs now reckons that oil could take out the 2008 record of $147
- Last gasps of the rent seeking class?
- The AI Industry Is Lying to You
- Mystery jump in oil trading ahead of Trump post draws scrutiny
- How to defer US taxes
- US national debt surges past $39 Trillion
- Oil and gas prices jump after Iran and Israel attack gasfields
- Austin’s surge of new housing construction drove down rents
- US SEC preparing to scrap quarterly reporting requirement
- The American Healthcare Conundrum
- Nasdaq's Shame
- What happens when US economic data becomes unreliable
- UBI as a productivity dividend
- US private credit defaults hit record 9.2% in 2025, Fitch says
- Create value for others and don’t worry about the returns
- The engine of Germany's wealth is blocking its future
- Most of the US economy is in a recession
- US economy unexpectedly sheds 92k jobs in February
- How Much Money Jeff Bezos Made Since You Started Reading This Page
- The Brand Age
- Payment fees matter more than you think
- Study shows two child household must earn $400k/year to afford childcare
- Uncovering insiders and alpha on Polymarket with AI
- Swedish Alecta has sold off an estimated $8B of US Treasury Bonds
- Danish pension fund divesting US Treasuries
- The microstructure of wealth transfer in prediction markets
- US Job Openings Decline to Lowest Level in More Than a Year
- Jensen: 'We've done our country a great disservice' by offshoring
- Drugmakers raise US prices on 350 medicines despite pressure
- Sabotaging Bitcoin
- America's economy looks set to accelerate
- EU to build no-fee payments service like Visa/Mastercard and Apple/Google Pay
- The gift card accountability sink
- High-income job losses are cooling housing demand
- In a U.S. First, New Mexico Opens Doors to Free Child Care for All
- McDonald's is losing its low-income customers
- The government has no plan for America’s 300 billion pennies
- Why AC is cheap, but AC repair is a luxury
- Tether is now the 17th largest holder of US debt
- Ireland is making basic income for artists program permanent
- The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2025
- Tariffs Are Way Up. Interest on Debt Tops $1T. and Doge Didn't Do Much
- The fight between doctors and insurance companies over 'downcoding'
- Offline card payments should be possible no later than 1 July 2026
- The madness of SaaS chargebacks
- Health Insurance Costs for Businesses to Rise by Most in 15 Years
- Saquon Barkley is playing for equity
- Americans Lose Faith That Hard Work Leads to Economic Gains, WSJ-NORC Poll Finds
- A failure of security systems at PayPal is causing concern for German banks
- US national debt reaches a record $37T, the Treasury Department reports
- Outside of the top stocks, S&P 500 forward profits haven't grown in 3 years
- Food, housing, & health care costs are a source of major stress for many people
- Employee – CEO pay gap historically wide
- Nine households control 15% of wealth in Silicon Valley as inequality widens
- Brazil central bank to launch Pix installment feature in September
- How to not pay your taxes legally, apparently
- Price of rice in Japan falls below ¥4k per 5kg
- Just How Many More Successful UBI Trials Do We Need?
- World fertility rates in 'unprecedented decline', UN says
- Modeling land value taxes
- There was a time when the US government built homes for working-class Americans
- BuyMeACoffee silently dropped support for many countries (2024)
- Wise refuses to let us access our $60k AUD
- 'We Currently Have No Container Ships,' Seattle Port Says
- Amazon to display tariff costs for consumers
- California overtakes Japan to become the world's fourth largest economy
- Trump temporarily drops tariffs to 10% for most countries
- U.S. stock futures tumble indicating another plummet on Wall Street
- Trump's Tariffs Wipe Out over $6T on Wall Street in Epic Two-Day Rout
- There Was a Texas Lottery Arbitrage
- Trump's 'Crypto Reserve' Is Such Brazen Corruption
- Best Buy and Target CEOs say prices are about to go up because of tariffs
- We don't need startups, we need Digital-Mittelstand
- DigiKey's Tariff Resources
- The European VAT Is Not a Discriminatory Tax Against US Exports
- The New York Stock Exchange plans to launch NYSE Texas
- No Bitcoin ETFs at Vanguard (2024)
- Are Americans' perceptions of the economy and crime broken?
- No one is disrupting banks – at least not the big ones
- Why Northern England is poor
- Undiagnosed Cognitive Decline Eats into Seniors' Retirement Savings
- The quiet rebellion of a little life
- Is the world becoming uninsurable?
- I have made the decision to disband Hindenburg Research
- UnitedHealth overcharged cancer patients for drugs by over 1,000%
- WTF Happened in 1971? (2019)
- German economy contracts 0.2% in 2024 in second consecutive annual slowdown
- Spain proposes 100% tax on homes bought by non-EU residents
- Annual 'winners' for most egregious US healthcare profiteering announced
- Doomsday Book (2006) [pdf]
- Uncut Currency
- The Rise of the French Fry Cartel
- Olympians turn to OnlyFans to fund dreams due to 'broken' finance system (2024)
- China is the manufacturing superpower
- US credit card defaults jump to highest level since 2010
- Spotify Shuts Down ‘Unwrapped’ Artist Royalty Calculator with Legal Threats
- The Gambler Who Cracked the Horse-Racing Code (2018)
- The Rise and Future Fall of MicroStrategy
- New research suggests that Walmart makes the communities it operates in poorer
- More men are addicted to the 'crack cocaine' of the stock market
- Happy 400th birthday to the world’s oldest bond
- Why are Americans paying so much more for healthcare than they used to?
- An artist who trained rats to trade in foreign-exchange markets (2014)
- Crystal Ball Trading Game
- Feds help health insurers hide their dirty secret: denials on the rise
- Launch HN: Double (YC W24) – Index Investing with 0% Expense Ratios
- Debanking (and Debunking?)
- UnitedHealth's Effort to Deny Coverage for a Patient's Care (2023)
- United Health CEO Decries "Aggressive" Media Coverage in Leaked Recording
- Bitcoin price hits $100K for first time in history
- Bitcoin is over $100k
- Why America's economy is soaring ahead of its rivals
- Tip pressure might work in the moment, but customers are less likely to return
- How do I pay the publisher of a web page?
- Kenya and "the decline of the greatest coffee" (2021)
- US house prices in 1950 vs. 2024, accounting for inflation
- Taxing unrealized gains has caused an entrepreneurial exodus in Norway
- Most American farmers have second jobs to stay afloat
- Setelinleikkaus: When Finns snipped their cash in half to curb inflation
- Americans see their savings vanish in Synapse fintech crisis
- Bhutan, after prioritizing happiness, now faces an existential crisis
- The decline and fall of the British economy (2022)
- The Hidden Tax Trap for SaaS Founders in Germany
- Spanish police arrest ex-fraud chief after €20M found in walls of his house
- Cheaper to rent in Barcelona and commute to London (2013)
- The death and life of prediction markets at Google
- Toronto crypto company CEO kidnapped, held for $1M ransom before being released
- Japan's declining births on track to fall below 700k
- Bitcoin has made a new all-time high price
- The average age of U.S. homebuyers jumps to 56
- Nvidia to join Dow Jones Industrial Average, replacing Intel
- A 22 percent increase in the German minimum wage: nothing crazy
- Buy payphones and retire
- Up to $41B in World Bank climate finance unaccounted for, Oxfam finds
- Federal investigators probe Tether
- Care Doesn't Scale
- Welcome to the Era of the $20k Family Car Insurance Bill
- Using Euro coins as weights (2004)
- Why conventional wisdom on health care is wrong (a primer) (2020)
- One possible housing crisis solution? Public housing for all income levels
- The richest people borrow against their stock (2021)
- The American economy has left other rich countries in the dust
- Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2024
- Portugal seeks to become low-tax haven for young people
- Owe your banker £1k you are at his mercy; owe him £1m the position is reversed (2019)
- Wealth Distribution in the United States
- HBO documentary suggests Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto is Peter Todd
- Who died and left the US $7B?
- The missing middle: firms in developing countries
- FTX creditors will make money on bankruptcy
- Geico terminating insurance coverage of Tesla Cybertrucks
- Do We Need a 37-Cent Coin? (2009)
- Insider trader had all the answers
- When To Do What You Love
- Too much efficiency makes everything worse (2022)
- Binance founder 'CZ' leaves prison on Friday
- Rents fall and listings increase after rent control ends in Argentina
- DOJ accuses Visa of monopoly that affects price of 'nearly everything’
- Will A.I. Be a Bust? A Wall Street Skeptic Rings the Alarm
- 'I Don't Want to Die.' He needed mental health care. He found a ghost network
- Foundations: Why Britain Has Stagnated
- Up to a Quarter of Rental Inflation Is Due to Price-Fixing
- Lazarus Group laundered $200M from 25 crypto hacks to fiat
- How America's universities became debt factories
- How economical is your local Taco Bell?
- Project Hammer: reduce collusion in the Canadian grocery sector
- The short history of global living conditions and why it matters that we know it
- The Future of European Competitiveness
- Synthetic diamonds are now purer, more beautiful, and cheaper than mined
- America's best-paid CEOs have the worst-paid employees
- My job is to watch dreams die (2011)
- Canadian mega landlord using AI 'pricing scheme' as it hikes rents
- The coming long-run slowdown in corporate profit growth and stock returns [pdf] (2023)
- How immigration remade the U.S. labor force
- Mondragon as the new city-state
- Getting price-gouged by private equity in the UK's happiest resort (2023)
- Economist Eugene Fama: 'Efficient markets is a hypothesis. It's not reality
- Buy, Borrow, Die – Explained
- Unrealized Gain Tax–A Coming Sea Change in FY2025 Budget Proposal?
- Should the richest 1% – who gained $42T/decade – be taxed more?
- Is 'No tax on tips' a distraction from the fight to end sub-minimum wages?
- Why has Japan been hit with rice shortages despite normal crops?
- Using AI to fight insurance claim denials
- Finding a therapist who takes your insurance can be nearly impossible
- A $10k stipend is available for anyone moving to Cumberland, MD
- Cautionary tale on using Chase bank for indie business
- Japan's Public Didn't Buy Fumio Kishida's New Capitalism
- U.S. Added 818,000 Fewer Jobs Than Reported Earlier
- Scammers prey on young Chinese desperate for jobs in bleak economy
- Ask HN: Do we need to pay billions in fees to Stripe, Block, PayPal and Visa/MC?
- China's manufacturers are going broke
- the US government has to start paying for things again
- Ditch banks – Go with money market funds and treasuries
- It's the land, stupid: How the homebuilder cartel drives high housing prices
- Is "Rich Dad Poor Dad" a Fraud?
- Pushing baby booms to boost economic growth amounts to a Ponzi scheme
- Vacant pharmacies are holding back NYC retail
- Japan's Nikkei Posts Biggest Single-Day Fall Since 1987 After Weak U.S. Data
- Japan stocks plunge as much as 7% as Asia shares extend sell-off
- Elliott says Nvidia is in a 'bubble' and AI is 'overhyped'
- Share of total health spending, by percentile
- The US fiscal mess: Some unpleasant fiscal simulations
- UBI and the Anti-Work Vibe Shift
- IRS collects milestone $1B in back taxes from high-wealth taxpayers
- MIT 11.350: Sustainable Real Estate
- Every company should be owned by its employees
- Unconditional Cash Study: first findings available
- No one expects young men to do anything and they respond by doing nothing (2022)
- Why Discover is no American Express
- Global IT outage shows dangers of cashless society, campaigners say
- Can Universal Basic Income Transform Society?
- L402: The Missing Piece in the Internet's Payment Infrastructure
- The Mafia of Pharma Pricing
- Just Be Rich (2021)
- Does generative AI facilitate investor trading? Evidence from ChatGPT outages
- Nevada’s public employee pension fund invests passively and beats peers (2016)
- Third Places and Neighborhood Entrepreneurship: Evidence from Starbucks Cafés
- The UK can go back to being the richest country in the world
- SF's AI boom can't stop real estate slide, as office vacancies reach new record
- Zuckerberg and Peter Thiel on Facebook, Millenials, and Predictions for 2030
- The A.I. Bubble is Bursting with Ed Zitron [video]
- AI's $600B Question
- Pharma firms stash profits in Europe's tax havens
- Canada 'sleepwalking' into cashless society, consumer advocates warn
- Goldman Sachs says the return on investment for AI might be disappointing
- Small businesses in crisis as rising numbers unable to pay rent
- It's Now Cheaper to Lease a Tesla Model 3 Than a Toyota Camry
- DoorDash and Pizza Arbitrage (2020)
- Should people who quit get unemployment benefits, too?
- FICO and the Credit Bureau Cartel
- Visa, Mastercard $30B swipe fee settlement rejected by US judge
- Denver gave homeless people $1k/mth. Year later, nearly half had housing
- Fearing losses, banks are quietly dumping real estate loans
- 'It's All Happening Again.' The Supply Chain Is Under Strain
- The economics of the Birkin handbag
- Greece introduces the six day work week
- Reining in America's $3.3T tax-exempt economy
- Ask HN: Could AI be a dot com sized bubble?
- Drugmaker to testify on why weight-loss drugs cost 15x more in the US
- Land value tax in online games and virtual worlds (2022)
- U.S.-Saudi petrodollar pact ends after 50 years
- Chinese yuan becomes Russia's main foreign currency, replacing dollar and euro
- The Rate of Return on Everything, 1870–2015 (2019)
- The U.S. Economy Reaches Superstar Status
- Economic Termites: Monopolies not noticeable enough for most of us
- What makes gambling wrong but insurance right? (2017)
- Canadians are angry with their biggest supermarket
- Texas poised to get own stock exchange – with less red tape than NYSE or Nasdaq
- FBI raids Atlanta corporate landlord in probe of rental market price fixing
- Inequality Without Class
- Parable of the Sofa
- Making housing more affordable means your home's value will have to come down
- You Can Thank Private Equity for That Enormous Doctor's Bill
- Priced out of home ownership
- People spend more when prices end in .99 (2018)
- Financial Statement Analysis with Large Language Models
- One-third of Amazon warehouse workers are on food stamps or Medicaid
- Business Booms and Depressions Since 1775 (1943)
- Taking Risk
- Stripe increasing "instant payout" fees by 50%
- On the trail of my identity thief
- Mortgages are a manufactured product (2022)
- Show HN: I built a website to create financial models for any stock online
- Rents are rising faster than wages across the country
- U.S. Government Now Spends More on Debt Interest than National Defense
- Suddenly There Aren't Enough Babies. The Whole World Is Alarmed
- Americans are choking on surging fast-food prices. "I can't justify the expense"
- How rich is too rich? Limitarianism: The Case Against Extreme Wealth
- The Rise of the Forever Renter Class
- How I think about debt
- “Meta spent almost as much as the Manhattan Project on GPUs in today's dollars”
- Why US renters are taking corporate landlords to court
- Value of one of S.F.'s biggest buildings plunges by 80% after Uber, Block leave
- Evidence of price-fixing in the oil industry?
- How much is enough to FIRE in San Francisco?
- The Stripper Index: An unorthodox recession measurement
- McDonald's and other big brands warn that low-income consumers starting to crack
- Akiya houses: why Japan has nine million empty homes
- The European Union's remarkable growth performance relative to the United States
- Dear Europe, please wake up
- Doctor at Cigna said bosses pressured her to review patients' cases too quickly
- Why We Hate Working for Big Companies (2018)
- Why I Don't Invest in Real Estate
- The Basque Country’s Mondragón Corporation is the largest industrial co-op
- Financial market applications of LLMs
- Bitcoin Block 840000
- Household size and the housing stock
- Rents Are the Fed's 'Biggest Stumbling Block' in Taming US Inflation
- All-cash offers, wealthy buyers push Southern California home prices to a record
- Student debt is haunting Americans from graduation to retirement
- Generation Z is unprecedentedly rich
- Amazon HQ2 was supposed to add jobs last year. It shed them instead
- To make a fortune, target bored young men who want to make a fortune
- $10M in Gold Disguised as Machine Parts Seized from Cargo Plane
- Thoughts on low latency trading if exchanges went full cloud
- Summers: Inflation Reached 18% in 2022 Using the Government's Previous Formula
- Rents are soaring. Is RealPage to blame?
- Double-entry bookkeeping as a directed graph
- Multimillion-dollar L.A. heist was seamless, sophisticated, stealthy
- Interview with Yanis Varoufakis on Technofeudalism
- What makes housing so expensive?
- Home insurers are dropping customers based on aerial images
- Generational Luck in the Housing Market
- Anatomy of a credit card rewards program
- Growth is a mind cancer
- Population tipping point could arrive by 2030
- California is gripped by economic problems, with no easy fix
- Cutting a 700 carat rare valuable gemstone [video]
- Why Ireland's housing bubble burst
- Ethereum has blobs. Where do we go from here?
- Intel Brags of $152B in Stock Buybacks. Why Does It Need an $8B Subsidy?
- Visa, Mastercard Agree to Lower Swipe Fees, Settling Long-Running Lawsuit
- What Happens When a Fifteen Year Old Pumps and Dumps with a Net Profit of $800k? (2002)
- Ask HN: Doom and Gloom but financial markets doing well?
- Why the 2% inflation target? (2023)
- Suspicious discontinuities (2020)
- The Timeless Parable of Mr. Market
- Japan brings negative interest rates era to an end with first hike in 17 years
- In Economics Do We Know What We're Doing? Nobel Prize winner grows disenchanted
- What I wish I knew about ESPP and RSUs sooner
- The Fed's Big Problem, There Are Two Economies but Only One Interest Rate
- Airbnb's Devastating Effect on Canadian Housing
- New Federal Rule Caps Credit Card Late Fees at $8
- 'Your pay is still – not – going up too fast'
- What it's like to staff the home of a billionaire
- The Myth of Scarcity and Its Threats to Human Society [pdf] (2023)
- Financial systems take a holiday
- Money bubble
- Three companies own 19,000 rental houses in Atlanta, GA
- Apollo calls AI a 'bubble' worse than even the dotcom era
- New car buying guide: the algorithm (2021)
- Consumers are increasingly pushing back against price increases – and winning
- Forum reactions to Satoshi's Bitcoin paper
- High Interest Savings Leaderboard
- The Fed is behind the Capital One/Discover merger
- What is going on in Argentina?
- Bad property debt exceeds reserves at largest US banks
- UK middle classes 'struggling despite incomes of up to £60k a year'
- Universal Basic Income Has Been Tried over and over Again. It Works Every Time
- UK Fell into Recession in 2023
- Commercial property deals in the US are starting to pick up at deep discounts
- Over 50% of the population of Germany does not own their home
- "PayPal took $80k from me and banned me"
- It Is Somebody's Moral Imperative to Leak "Coyote vs. Acme" to the World
- 'Baby Bust': Why Fewer Young People Expect to Become Parents (2013)
- Undisclosed tinkering in Excel behind economics paper
- A rent-stabilized 1 bedroom apartment for $1,100 In NYC? broker's fee is $15K
- Germany's days as an industrial superpower are coming to an end
- A record number of Americans can't afford rent
- "Fake Chinese income" mortgages fuel Toronto real estate bubble: HSBC bank leaks
- What happened with the Web Monetization API?
- Seattle ordinance intended to help app delivery workers is 'hurting' them
- Bottom 80% of US Households Persistently Dissaves-Spending More Than Income
- Why buying tickets to a game has become so unaffordable
- How to Replace Your CPAP in Only 666 Days
- Physical cash is dying–and you don't need to be a conspiracist to worry
- Car insurance in America is too cheap
- Limitarianism: The Case Against Extreme Wealth
- An alternative cause for the Great Stagnation: the cargo cult company
- Payroll employment rises by 353K in January; unemployment rate remains at 3.7%
- Nassim Taleb says the U.S. is in a ‘death spiral’ over government debt
- The business of check cashing
- .ai website registrations are a windfall for tiny Anguilla
- Global fertility isn't just declining, it's collapsing
- Car ownership in the US is becoming more expensive
- Prediction markets have an elections problem
- Real estate giant China Evergrande will be liquidated
- The things nobody wants to pay for
- Americans don't believe middle class can afford homes
- Have the Boomers Pinched Their Children's Futures? [video]
- US home sales see worst year since 1995
- Colorado pastor charged for cryptocurrency scam he perpetrated at God's command
- New $3k Couch Might Be Garbage in Three Years
- What happened to the US machine tool industry?
- Flattr is closing down (2023)
- EU NGI TALER will bring private and secure online payments to the Eurozone
- How Monopolists drive the power and wealth divide
- A link between low interest rates and low crime (2016)
- Five richest men double their money as poorest get poorer
- A site that tracks the price of a Big Mac in every US McDonald's
- Why can't today's young adults leave the nest? Blame high housing costs
- 93% of U.S. households' stock market wealth is held by the top 10%
- Majority of debtors to US hospitals now people with health insurance
- Analysis of 200M newspaper pages: Sentiment has collapsed over the past 50 years
- Spot Bitcoin ETF receives official approval from the SEC
- Austerity Is an Antidemocratic Strategy to Boost Capital
- SEC has not approved Bitcoin ETFs [fixed]
- Money pours into new fabs and facilities
- Buffett once bet $1M that he could beat a group of hedge funds over 10 years
- The optimal amount of fraud is non-zero (2022)
- Someone bought 26.9 BTC on Binance and sent it to Satoshi's dead wallet
- US unemployment has been under 4% for the longest streak since the Vietnam War
- Minimum Wage Clock
- A Canadian payroll dependency chart
- Salim Kara stole $2M in coins with a magnet and a car antenna (2022)
- Wealthiest Californians are leaving the state. It's bad news for the economy
- Japan's 18-year-olds at record-low 1.06 million
- Tether reveals partnerships with Secret Service, FBI in letter to U.S. Senate
- The Subscription Trap
- Nearly half of Americans age 18 to 29 are living with their parents
- San Francisco’s rent prices have never returned to pre-2020 levels
- The housing shortage is larger than you think
- $750 a month, no questions asked, improved the lives of homeless people
- Nikola founder to be sentenced for federal fraud charges
- Why are things expensive?
- Paying Netflix $0.53/H, etc.
- The debt problem is enormous, and the system for fixing it is broken
- Why it's taking so long for Americans to get payments instantly
- How the Feds bounced Binance
- What This Country Needs is an 18¢ Piece (2002) [pdf]
- Homelessness reaches highest reported level in the U.S. in 2023
- Coinbase targets financially vulnerable young adults
- The Long Shadow of Checks
- Europe needs to escape providerism
- Factors that act(ed) as drag on the European tech/startup scene
- Factors driving a productivity explosion
- 'Greedflation' study finds many companies were lying to you about inflation
- The industries AI is disrupting are not lucrative
- The wealth of the 25 richest families in the world soared 43% in the last year
- Greedflation: Corporate profiteering 'significantly' boosted global prices,study
- Spotify CFO cashes in £7.2M in shares after value surges on news of job cuts
- Lithium “shortage” bubble implodes again
- How could Al Bundy afford a house when he was making minimum wage?
- Housing wealth is meaningless, destructive and fundamentally changing society
- Americans think the American dream is dying
- It will never be a good time to buy a house
- Bidding error sees Finnish day-ahead power price tumble
- Binance and CEO admit financial crimes, billions coughed up to US govt
- Anti-poverty programs should be unconditional
- Argentina's New President Wants to Adopt the Dollar as the National Currency
- Argentina elects 'shock therapy' libertarian Javier Milei as president
- A map of ATMs designed to scam tourists in Europe
- From airlines to ticket sellers, companies fight U.S. to keep junk fees
- Almost no one pays a 6% real-estate commission except Americans
- What if money expired?
- The 'Georgists' Are Out and they want to tax your land
- 48-nation bloc to crack down on using crypto assets to avoid tax
- Zelle finally caves after years of refusing to refund scam victims
- The diamond world takes radical steps to stop a pricing plunge
- Globalisation is a far, far bigger deal than you think
- The importance of cash in a technological society
- Only 15% of Californians can afford a home, new data shows
- Trading bot that buys stocks bought by politicians is up 20% since May 2022
- You have a right to know why a health insurer denied your claim
- The housing market is starting to crack – Sellers are cutting prices
- Seeing like a bank
- Google ends deal to build 15,000 Bay Area homes due to "market conditions"