Melissa Chadburn goes undercover as a temp worker.
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The Human Cost of the Ghost Economy
Melissa Chadburn goes undercover as a temp worker.
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The Real Goldfinger: The London Banker Who Broke the World
Rowland Baring, governor of the Bank of England between 1961 and 1966, found the Bretton Woods system — which controlled the exchange of currency and used gold-backed US dollars as an “impartial” international currency — both unethical and damaging to the City of London. Many agreed. When banker Ian Fraser changed the way the global economy […]
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What Being a Bike Courier Taught Me About Our Broken Economy
To earn money during a rough patch as a freelancer, Sam Riches worked as a bike courier, delivering food in Toronto during a six-month period. While the job lacked in pay, it offered one intriguing benefit: a crash course in human nature.
Posted inBusiness, Business & Tech, Current Events, Feature, Story, Uncategorized
Clocking Out
Can we imagine an economy built for free time?
Posted inBusiness, History, Nonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes
How Offshore Banking Destroyed Everything
This is the story of how a handfull of mega-rich ended up hoarding most of the world’s wealth.
Posted inBooks, Fiction, Profiles & Interviews, Story
Irvine Welsh on Brexit, Existential Panic, and His Latest ‘Trainspotting’ Sequel
“The books from ‘Trainspotting’ onwards have been about deindustrialization … the cruel existential panic that we feel, in the sense that we don’t really know what we’re here for anymore.”
Posted inCulture, Story, Unapologetic Women
The No. 1 Ladies’ Defrauding Agency
What a 19th-century scammer can teach us about women, lying, and economic boom-and-bust cycles
Posted inBusiness & Tech, Design, Quotes
Immature Architects Built the Attention Economy
The creators of addictive smartphone technology admit they were too immature to consider the downsides of persuasive design.
Posted inNonfiction
Truly Seeing the River: An Interview with Writer Boyce Upholt
Writing about the culture and beauty of the Mississippi Delta requires seeing the mighty river as more than a line of water.
