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Kevin T. Dugan is an Intelligencer staff writer who covers finance and business. He was previously on staff at Bloomberg, The Information, and the New York Post.

  1. trump-biden debate
    Donald Trump And Joe Biden Participate In First Presidential Debate
    Political Betting Markets Sure Do Like the Sound of President Gavin NewsomWhat we can learn from the political junkies who also happen to be degenerate gamblers.
  2. alex jones
    Alex Jones Speaks To The Media Outside The Sandy Hook Trial In Waterbury, Connecticut
    Sandy Hook Families Are Fighting Over What to Do With InfowarsIs it better to take Alex Jones’s money while he’s on the air or shut down Infowars only for him to pop up elsewhere?
  3. what it’s like
    How Nvidia Became ChatGPT's Brain And Joined The $1 Trillion Club
    What It’s Like to Get Rich As an Nvidia Engineer “I’ve been splurging. I need to slow down.”
  4. the money game
    Nvidia To Report Quarterly Earnings
    Nvidia Is Worth More Than All Real Estate in NYC — and 9 Other Wild ComparisonsA chip-maker you’re maybe just vaguely aware of is now bigger than China’s entire farming industry.
  5. the money game
    Elon Musk (Kind of) Gets His F-You MoneyThe world’s third-richest man got a vote of confidence as his control over the company was called into question.
  6. the money game
    Fed Raises Rates In Attempt To Ease Inflation
    The Economy Is Finally Becoming … Normal?Inflation is falling, wages are rising, and the Federal Reserve is fixing to cut interest rates twice by 2025.
  7. the money game
    Milken Institute's Global Conference Held In Beverly Hills
    Has Elon Musk Finally Lost Tesla Shareholders?The Tesla CEO is facing the prospect of a $56 billion rebuke not from the government or a judge, but from his fellow shareholders.
  8. the money game
    GameStop Doesn’t Care About Its ApesThe fatal flaw in meme-stock trading is that companies just want their biggest fans’ money.
  9. the money game
    Roaring Kitty’s Second Act Has BegunKeith Gill, the king of the meme-stock traders, is back. Last time he upended Wall Street. What now?
  10. the law
    David Boies at his Manhattan apartment on Sept. 12, 2018.
    David Boies on the Trump Trials, Columbia Protests, and Visiting the PopeHarvey Weinstein and Theranos got in the way of the retirement plans of one of the world’s most powerful litigators. Now, he’s reflecting on it all.
  11. supreme court
    Why the NRA Beat New York on ‘Murder Insurance’The Supreme Court ruled that the state’s insurance watchdog was “coercive” in banning a controversial product.
  12. the money game
    Adam Neumann
    Adam Neumann Gives Up Dream of Elevating Our Consciousness AgainThe WeWork co-founder is no longer trying to take back the real-estate company he lost control of in 2019.
  13. the money game
    Key Speakers At The NVIDIA GTC Conference
    Nvidia’s CEO Could Be the World’s Richest Man Sooner Than You ThinkJensen Huang has seen his fortune double to $90 billion since Christmas, and there’s no sign of it slowing down.
  14. the money game
    Deflation Never Happens, Except Right NowWalmart, McDonald’s, and Ikea are all reversing some price hikes, but the trend is far from universal.
  15. the money game
    What Does Vivek Ramaswamy Want With BuzzFeed?The failed Republican candidate has purchased a stake in the media site, but his intentions are murky.
  16. just asking questions
    Marc Tessier-Lavigne, the president of Stanford University, in Palo Alto, Calif. on May 2, 2022. (Carolyn Fong/The New York Times)
    Why Scientific Fraud Is Suddenly EverywhereRetraction Watch co-founder Ivan Oransky talks about how academic metrics got Moneyballed, causing many research journals to fold.
  17. the money game
    The Crypto World Has a New VillainBillionaire Barry Silbert is accused of defrauding thousands of people. Should he get to keep their money anyway?
  18. the money game
    Bank Of America Inc. Branch Locations Ahead Of Earnings Figures
    A Second Young Bank of America Employee Has Suddenly Died This MonthThe two deaths are prompting renewed scrutiny of the long grueling hours young finance employees are expected to work.
  19. the money game
    A Hertz Tesla electric vehicle is displayed during the Hertz Corporation IPO at the Nasdaq in New York
    Who Wants 30,000 Used Teslas?Hertz decided to unload its fleet of the electric vehicles. For some drivers, it has been a disaster.
  20. the money game
    What’s Good for GameStop Is Good for AmericaGet in, loser, we’re going to the moon.
  21. obituary
    Jim SImons
    The Man Who Brought Theoretical Physics to Wall StreetIf hedge-fund titan (and elite mathematician) Jim Simons wasn’t history’s greatest trader, he was among a handful who could ever make that claim.
  22. the money game
    TODAY - Season 72
    Peloton’s Diehards Are Gaming Out Which Instructors Might Get the AxPrivate equity is circling the pandemic darling, which hasn’t figured out how to make money.
  23. trump media
    Former President Donald Trump's Hush-Money Criminal Trial
    Who Could Have Ever Seen That Trump Media’s Auditor Is a ‘Massive Fraud"?In an unbelievable coincidence, the number cruncher for Trump’s Twitter clone is bad at his job
  24. the money game
    Why Your TikTok App Will Probably Be Taken AwayThere are four main scenarios here — and the most likely one doesn’t look great for fans of the app.
  25. the money game
    Can Elon Musk Pull Off a Mark Zuckerberg?The Tesla CEO tries to execute a dramatic, tech-driven pivot to rescue his company’s crashing stock value.
  26. the money game
    Everything We Know About Donald Trump’s Wild Civil Bond SagaA giant financial drain on the former president’s coffers is at the center of his appeal on his fraud case
  27. higher education
    Scott Galloway on Whether College Is Still Worth ItThe NYU marketing professor and Pivot co-host reflects on the challenges facing Gen Z and whether the university system is stacked against it.
  28. the money game
    Biden nominates Powell and Brainard to chair the Fed, Washington, Usa - 22 Nov 2021
    Why Joe Biden Really, Really Wants Lower Interest RatesIt would probably boost his election odds. But Jerome Powell doesn’t look ready to help him.
  29. the money game
    US-ENTERTAINMENT-PRIZE-BREAKTHROUGH
    Elon Musk Has Forgotten What Tesla IsThe electric vehicle–maker is cutting 10 percent of its workforce ahead of a big robotaxi announcement, just as its sales are plummeting.
  30. the money game
    Trump Media’s Stock Price Is Plummeting. His Election Odds Aren’t.There’s more going on here than Trump fans betting on the ex-president to win.
  31. the money game
    Why Chocolate Prices Are Going BananasCocoa on the futures markets has quadrupled lately to all-time highs. What’s going on?
  32. the money game
    Wytham Abbey, Oxfordshire, home of the Earl of Abingdon, c1880.
    The Effective Altruists’ Castle Is for Sale — and Has Become a Culture-War MemeSam Bankman-Fried funded the philanthropic movement, and now they have to sell to pay back his victims.
  33. the money game
    Elon Musk’s Tesla Empire Is Facing ‘Unmitigated Disaster’Tesla came to dominance during a short period when everything went right. Can it ever regain its glory days?
  34. the media
    Entrepreneur Manoj Bhargava Launches Electricity-Generating Bicycle
    Sports Illustrated’s Ex-Publisher Was a Transphobic ‘Gangster’: SuitThe weird mudslinging saga of the venerable magazine is now the subject of a lawsuit.
  35. crimes
    Bankman-Fried to stick with new lawyers despite possible conflict
    Sam Bankman-Fried’s Final Trip to CourtThe former crypto-billionaire boy wonder did not get the short sentence he wanted.
  36. the money game
    Former President Trump Speaks To The Media After Court Appearance In Hush Money Case
    Donald Trump Still Has All Kinds of Money ProblemsHe got nearly $300 million knocked off his bond payment Monday, but that’s a temporary victory.
  37. the money game
    How Screwed Is Trump?Unless he can find a way out of paying Tish James, he will go bust on Monday.
  38. just asking questions
    Why the Election Might Come Down to Pennsylvania’s EconomyMoody’s chief economist Mark Zandi on why he’s cautiously optimistic about Biden’s reelection.
  39. frauds
    FTX Co-Founder Sam Bankman-Fried Appears In Court
    SBF Planned to ‘Come Out As Republican’ With Tucker Carlson“Come out against the woke agenda” are actual words in a note the crypto fraud wrote to himself.
  40. the money game
    President Biden Holds Campaign Event In Pennsylvania
    Is Joe Biden’s Bet on Inflation Paying Off?The cost of living ticked up in February, but Wall Street doesn’t seem worried about it. What’s happening?
  41. the money game
    Trump Pumps Crypto, Sneakers in CNBC Interview After Posting $92 Million Bond“People were going crazy for these sneakers. You probably were, too. Everybody was.”
  42. the money game
    Steven Mnuchin,Louise Linton
    Is Steve Mnuchin the Guy to Stop the Commercial Real-Estate Crisis?Trump’s Treasury secretary put $1 billion into New York’s most troubled bank, but what can he do about the rent crisis?
  43. the money game
    Why Did Bitcoin Hit a New All-Time High?Is Wall Street just in a “buy anything” mood?
  44. the money game
    Key Speakers At Bitcoin 2023 Conference
    Bitcoin FOMO Is Back: ‘This Is Officially a Craze”Is a new Wall Street investment product creating a new crypto boom?
  45. the money game
    Miami, Hialeah Gardens, Florida, Walmart Supercenter, customer shopping, Welch's fruit drinks juices, gallon plastic bottles
    How Much More Expensive Is Food Now, Really?The weird debate over who is gaslighting who about the cost of groceries.
  46. the money game
    ‘The Most Important Stock on Planet Earth’ Just Got Even BiggerNvidia makes the chips that power artificial intelligence, and there’s nothing stopping its domination.
  47. sam bankman-fried
    SBF’s First Jailhouse Photo Shows Him Skinny and UnkemptApparently the convicted crypto fraudster doesn’t shower, and there was an unexplained “incident” in jail.
  48. the money game
    Is the Good Economy a Mirage?You may be feeling better about the economy, but that might not last much longer if inflation doesn’t fall further.
  49. the poor house
    The Donald Trump Fire Sale Starts NowHe’s going to have to sell his stuff to pay a half-billion dollars’ worth of legal penalties.
  50. the money game
    The Massive Success of Bitcoin ETFs Doesn’t Have to Make SenseWhat do BlackRock, Jay-Z, and Beyoncé have in common?
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