The Europeans are getting close to a deal, after Greek officials seem to have softened their position by proposing a series of reforms—including raising taxes on consumers and corporations—to their European creditors.
In a little over three years as a public company, Facebook is now worth more than Walmart.
Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, the publishing and licensing company built around an image of impeccable—if unrealistic—domestic bliss has just been devoured by brand management and licensing firm Sequential Brands.
People who have a lot of sex tend to be happy.
Almost five years after the financial crisis that set off the worst recession since the Great Depression, America’s benchmark baby-production rate is finally starting to increase.
When you start your first day at Quartz, you get peppered with passwords.
More than five years after the specter of a Greek default first sent global markets into a tizzy, the heavily indebted euro zone country is on the brink of default—again.
The horse race to succeed Twitter’s CEO Dick Costolo, who will step down July 1, is in full swing.
It’s pretty striking.
Stanford University’s Alvin Roth is a very rare thing: An economist who saves lives.
Jamie Dimon, the billionaire CEO of the largest US bank by assets, is a fairly busy guy. But he has kindly offered to clear his schedule to bring Elizabeth Warren up to speed on, you know, banking.
In the ongoing economic rivalry between Texas and New York, the Lone Star state seems to be running away with it.
It doesn’t really get much more clear than this.
Remember when Germany would never permit the European central bank to start up the printing presses?
Who knew? Japan is turning into the sleeper source of economic growth this year.
This could take a second.
It’s time for what is arguably the world’s most influential monthly economic update.
Why are so many billionaires so eager to give money to institutions that clearly don’t need it?
The years following the financial crisis have been kind to American landlords.
Just recently, a 51-year-old Danish fitness instructor, Tom Hoel, reportedly notched a new record for planking, beating the previous Guinness world record of four hours and 26 minutes by 45 seconds. In Southern California, a US marine veteran is aiming to make another run at the record.
Richard Thaler spent most of his career as an academic outsider. And along the way, he became one of the founding fathers of a once-obscure blend of psychology and economics that we now know as behavioral economics.
Few people predicted that Japan would become a meaningful source of economic growth this year. (Although some particularly astute economic observers seem to have done just that.😝)
The bad news: San Francisco has the highest median rents of any of America’s large metropolitan areas, according to a recently released analysis by NYU’s Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy.
That whooshing sound you hear is the scads of euro notes being withdrawn from Greek banks.
