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November was a blockbuster month for US employment. The economy added a higher-than-expected 266,000 jobs (subject to revision) last month, dropping the unemployment rate to a 50-year low of 3.5%. Some of the gains come from the return of thousands of striking General Motors workers.

OPEC+ cuts oil production one day after the Aramco IPO. But Saudi Arabia says it's a coincidence. CNBC reports that an expanded cartel of oil-producing countries is cutting global oil production by 500,000 barrels a day. Oil prices rose following the announcement.

France won't back down on its US "tech tax." While the rich-country OECD group is rewriting tax rules for digital companies, France's finance minister rejected a US proposal to allow corporations to opt out of the new framework. Washington has threatened a 100% retaliatory tax on French imports.

Canopy, the biggest player in Canadian cannabis, is finally entering the US. Canopy Growth—the world’s largest legal cannabis company, worth about $6.4 billion—quietly launched its new CBD brand, called First & Free, for US online shoppers.

Is there a fintech bubble? There’s certainly FOMO but it’s not quite at the level of the bitcoin or dot-com busts. Ahead of next week’s field guide, which looks beyond the fintech hype, Future of Finance reporter John Detrixhe has the lowdown on finance re-invented.

For SoftBank’s Vision Fund, size doesn’t seem to matter. With nearly $100 billion in capital, it's the largest tech investing fund in the world. But it's not clear that SoftBank’s massive investments are paying off as its highly-valued unicorns transition to the public market. Learn more in this Quartz presentation for members. ✦

America can redeem its frayed faith in capitalism. The first steps are adding a heavy dose of ethics and responsibility to business school curriculums, and for the country's executives to embrace a formal all-encompassing corporate responsibility contract.

TED wants to become the global hub for the climate change crisis. Working with a coalition of business organizations that emerged after the 2015 Paris Agreement, the conference series hopes to crowdsource ideas from experts and concerned citizens to be presented at a summit next year.

The way we colonize Mars says a lot about how we address climate change. Is repeating our mistakes on another planet the answer to our existential crises?

Finland’s communal grandparents, known as "kylämummi," forge relationships across the generational divide. For more than a decade, Finland’s largest organization dedicated to child and family welfare has run a program that encourages older people to volunteer to give time and attention to toddlers. But are these programs successful?

Raising a child is hard. But the “parenting is hard” trope, which feeds memes and dinner conversations, can be dangerous. It frames the problem as the individual failure of a single parent rather than as a social issue.

Why France is on strike. In Paris, 11 out of 16 metro lines have shut down completely, and workers across France are threatening to stay on the picket lines for an indefinite period over proposed pension reforms.

Fuck-the-establishment rap anthems are flourishing in Hong Kong. The city has exploded with angry creativity since the outbreak of protests in June. Rap songs excoriating the police force for its brutality are the sound of the summer.

Swipe righteously. From climate change to equality to volunteer work, India’s Gen Z uses Tinder to date with purpose.

Woke, lit, snacc. Gen Z users on Tinder can sometimes speak a language that is indecipherable to someone even a few years older.

The flawed logic that makes flying a nightmare for wheelchair users. Disability advocates are working to make traveling by airplane less stressful and painful for wheelchair users.

South African Airways went into bankruptcy protection this week. For decades, the airline was recognized as the continent's leading carrier. But while it was winning industry kudos, it was racking up unsustainable levels of debt after eight years of operations without turning a profit.

Planning a trip to Tokyo for the Olympics next year? Assuming you can even get a ticket, attending the opening ceremony and one event can cost $10,000. But if you time your airfare and hotel booking just right, you could save a few hundred dollars. Here's how.

What are the chances of getting dementia? The Quartz calculator can indicate your risk of developing dementia, based on your age, gender, and country of residence. ✦

Next-generation dementia care could learn from cancer care. Palliative care helps patients in their final months, and is often used for people suffering from end-stage cancer. But it can actually help anyone who has a long-term, chronic illness, and it could be especially effective for people living with dementia. ✦

US immigration suffers from death by a thousand fees. The Trump administration is trying to make it too expensive for poor immigrants to stay in the US with the application fee for naturalization set to increase from $640 to $1170.

The sole airline willing to deport high-risk immigrants is price-gouging ICE. There is only one carrier willing to take on US deportation flights and they're charging the US government nearly double the normal price, making flights as expensive as $33,500 per hour in November.

Why children really believe in Santa Claus. Can children's willingness to believe in the existence of a rotund gift-giver from the North Pole teach us anything about how they come to discriminate between what’s real and what’s not?

Greetings from Krampus. At this time of year, in parts of Europe, a goat demon named Krampus treads through the snow, ready to lug misbehaving children directly to hell. The Quartz Obsession will tell you how such a fearsome creature became part of tales told to children.

Decades after his disappearance, unions still suffer from Jimmy Hoffa’s legacy. A union widely perceived as mobbed up—with a labor leader notorious for his mafia ties—has come, in the minds of some Americans, to represent the entire labor movement.