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The former New York City mayor has spent almost $200 million, and he still has billions left in his account.

When good ideas make bad business.

How do you build up a business when you're making 10 bucks an hour and bartending on the side?

Adaptogen mocktails, infrared saunas, "social self-care." Wellness is more than a luxury symbol; it's a social status —  for a privileged few.

The tax agency, Justice Department and Congress have all taken aim at a much-abused deduction exploited by wealthy investors. Yet the crackdown is having minimal impact, costing the Treasury billions.

Businesses and consumers stash away semi-illicit greenbacks.

And in other housing news this week, an eviction exhibit opens in Richmond, Virginia and a look into Philadelphia's rooming houses.

Starting in the '80s, the rise of finance set forces in motion that have reshaped the economy.

Female graduates of the largest majority-Mormon university earn on average $800 a year. What gives?

In 2019, I worked at seven different companies as a temp — some big, some small, some recognizable, some obscure. Here's what happened.

The prototype console was once dismissed as a myth. Now it's about to sell for a considerable sum of money.

By some estimates, the world is short $400 trillion to pay for its aging population.

Sheriffs regularly release sick and injured inmates to avoid paying their hospital bills. But some defendants charged with violent offenses like murder have been let out and gone on to commit new crimes.

As the Treasury Department prepared to enact the 2017 Republican tax overhaul, corporate lobbyists swarmed — and won big.

In an age of historic disparity, Abigail Disney and the Patriotic Millionaires take on income inequality.

California has given counties more than $8 billion to handle thousands of new inmates. But lax rules and limited scrutiny have allowed some sheriffs to use the money for other things that might violate state law.

Record flooding, a delayed harvest, and a trade war with China are hammering US agriculture this year.

As the mall declines, American Dream — a "destination" at the height of capitalism — rises. Welcome to the era of the post-shopping mall.

They're not legal tender anywhere and are more like collectors items.

The fashionable 1 percent isn't interested in luxury goods, but they are really afraid of death.

Or that other people have spent on us.

A New York woman worried that her sore throat might be strep, so she went to the doctor to have it checked out. Then came the bill — with a price tag similar to a small SUV.

Unfortunately for you, bad customer service is good for business.

It used to be easier to hide your wine cave.

A decade after the great recession, our politics are different, but our finances are worse.

Pichai got the promotion of a lifetime this month when company co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin relinquished control of parent company Alphabet.

For years, we've wondered whether a doctor who received a payment linked to a particular drug prescribed more of that drug. We now have the answer: yes.

Vox breaks down how different groups in America are taxed and which ones pay the most.

If you'd invested $100 in Netflix in 2009, your investment would be almost a staggering $4,000 now.

All those tech IPOs this year that were supposed to make people megarich only made them rich-ish.

Dozens of acupuncturists and physical therapists earned more than $200,000 in 2018 from school staff alone. One brought in $1 million. What's going on?

Just days after cryptocurrency analysts suggested that a $2 billion Chinese Ponzi scheme was stifling Bitcoin's price, its enormous Ethereum stash is on the move.

How Silicon Valley billionaires skirt charity rules each holiday season.

IPO judgment day hasn't been kind to some other tech companies this year.

Casey Neistat gets the opportunity to snag the most expensive seat on the Etihad A380 The Residence — complete with a shower, bedroom and living room area.

As per-episode take-homes inch toward $2 million per episode, and comedians lock down $1 million deals for Quibi specials, we have to ask: Where does all this end?

A former investment manager accused the church of stockpiling surplus donations from members instead of using them for charitable works.

A shift to renewable energy powered by a carbon tax would create millions of new jobs, but the amount of money it would return to U.S. residents in rebates could vary considerably.

Every year, Americans short the IRS nearly half a trillion dollars. Most ideas to increase compliance are more stick than carrot — scary letters, audits, and penalties. But what if we gave taxpayers a chance to allocate how their money is spent, or even bribed them with a thank-you gift?

Watching booms and busts in Madagascar, the world's primary source of natural vanilla.

In this scene from his early 1990s documentary "The Last Party," Robert Downey Jr. makes a visit to the New York Mercantile Exchange and doesn't mince words.

It's one thing to understand in the abstract that America has the highest health care prices in the world. It's quite another thing to see the price of services, from C-sections to MRIs, compared to other health care systems.

Kansas's state capital is launching a creative solution to catalyze its stagnant population size.

The case was brought by six people in Idaho who said a pair of local laws violated the Eighth Amendment's prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment.

A previous chart looked at shifts in job distribution over the past several decades, but it was difficult to see by how much each occupation group changed individually. The chart below makes the changes more obvious.

The organization does a lot to help underserved people, including members of the LGBTQ community. Still, it has a long history of alleged discrimination.

The US economy is increasingly concentrated in large cities and near the coasts and less so in rural areas.

The internet has created a tyranny of perfect information, so there is more to know about which thing is the right thing to buy than any human can comprehend.

As New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio expands tenant protections, a pair of US senators introduce the Eviction Crisis Act to help renters get legal help.

You don't set Kickstarter and Patreon records without genuine connection. And controversy.

Wine connoisseurs might get sticker shock when they go to a restaurant. Why do restaurants jack up the price on the vino?

A 50-inch TV for $300 comes with some trade-offs.

Federal Reserve officials believed that the labor market was about as good as it could get. They were wrong.

$8.41. That was how much 83-year-old Uri Rafaeli, a retired engineer, in Michigan underpaid his property taxes by in 2014. That was all it took for him to lose his house.

Restaurant cook and chef wages are up — but not enough to comfortably live in America's most expensive cities, like New York and San Francisco.

The famously struggling coworking giant bought Spacious in August, and now it's closing its doors.

YouTuber Half As Interesting sets out to find the most expensive thing in the world and it's not a boat, building or jet.

"When I made the final payment, I actually felt shame. I should be happy, but it seems like a lot of my cohort paid theirs off like a decade or more ago?"

The Salesforce founder has donated a fortune to right capitalism's wrongs, and he thinks his fellow billionaires should too. Why can't we just be grateful?

In Texas and Florida, Robert Marbut Jr. sold cities on a controversial model for providing homeless services. Now he's bringing it to the White House.