The Green Bay Packers are a historical, cultural, and geographical anomaly, a publicly traded corporation in a league that doesn’t allow them, an immensely profitable company whose shareholders are forbidden by the corporate bylaws to receive a penny of that profit, a franchise that has flourished despite being in the smallest market in the NFL—with […]
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Featured Longreader: Bloomberg News writer Elizabeth Lopatto. See her story picks from The Atlantic, Cabinet Magazine and more on her #longreads page.
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Featured Longreader: Gabrielle Gantz, arts & culture blogger/publicist at Viking & Penguin. See her story picks from The Christian Science Monitor, Bloomberg Businessweek and more on her #longreads page.
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Graeber’s arguments place him squarely at odds with mainstream economic thought, and the discipline has, for the most part, ignored him. But his timing couldn’t be better to reach a popular audience. His writing provides an intellectual frame and a sort of genealogy for the movement he helped start. The inchoate anger of the Occupy […]
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Featured Longreader: Front-end developer Carlos Rodriguez. See his story picks from Bloomberg Businessweek, Yield Thought, Fortune Magazine and more on his #longreads page.
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In the weeks since the immigration law took hold, several hundred Americans have answered farmers’ ads for tomato pickers. A field over from where Juan Castro and his friends muse about the sorry state of the U.S. workforce, 34-year-old Jesse Durr stands among the vines. An aspiring rapper from inner-city Birmingham, he wears big jeans […]
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Featured Longreader: Music blogger Damien Joyce. See his story picks from Bloomberg Businessweek, Nouriel Roubini, plus music stories on his #longreads page.
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There’s more to Sony’s problems than acts of God and currency traders. The maker of the Walkman and the Trinitron hasn’t driven pop culture for years. Sony thrived in an era of stand-alone electronics. When the Internet arose and digital began to mean connected, iPods became the center of people’s entertainment lives, then smartphones and […]
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The Fed, headed by Chairman Ben S. Bernanke, argued that revealing borrower details would create a stigma — investors and counterparties would shun firms that used the central bank as lender of last resort — and that needy institutions would be reluctant to borrow in the next crisis. Clearing House Association fought Bloomberg’s lawsuit up […]
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Featured Longreader: Tech and finance nerd Jeremy Vandel. See his story picks from Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, The New York Times, Bloomberg News and more on his longreads page.
