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Fortune Magazine Sold to Thai Businessman for $150 Million

Fortune Magazine Sold to Thai Businessman for $150 Million Meredith acquired the title with a $2.8 billion acquisition of Time Inc. last November, in a deal that made it the largest magazine publisher in America.

The Day Wall Street Collapsed

The Day Wall Street Collapsed Diana B. Henriques’s “A First-Class Catastrophe” is a minute-by-minute account of the stock market disaster of Oct. 19, 1987.

Coincheck announced today that Tokyo-based online brokerage Monex Group will buy it in full. The transaction will see Coincheck become a wholly owned subsidiary of Monex.

Crypto exchange Coincheck, still recovering from $400M hack, sold to online brokerage Japanese crypto exchange Coincheck, made famously after hackers made off with more than $400 million in digital token NEM, has been acquired. The company announced today (in Japanese) that Tokyo-ba…

Shkreli found guilty of defrauding investors, was sentenced to 7 years and a $75,000 fine.

'Pharma Bro' Martin Shkreli Gets 7 Years For Defrauding Investors He made headlines by jacking up the price of a lifesaving drug.

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Many consumer advocacy groups consider these loans predatory by nature, with desperate borrowers taken in by aggressive marketing and promises of quick cash.

Borrow $5,000, repay $42,000 — How super high-interest loans have boomed in California Over the past decade, loans with interest rates topping 100% have exploded in popularity as struggling households — typically with poor credit scores — have found a new source of quick cash from an emerging class of online lenders.

Nice interview with Sallie Krawcheck.

What Sallie Krawcheck learned about being a woman on Wall Street Sallie Krawcheck was one of the highest ranking women on Wall Street before she was fired. Now she's the CEO of an investment platform for women. Her new book explores why women's success in the business world has stalled, and what to do about it.

Some changes are on the horizon to the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, or FAFSA. For one, the form can be submitted much earlier.

Financial Aid 101: Earlier FAFSA Provides More Time To Line Up Tuition This year, high school students will find out how much money they'll get from colleges well in advance. That's because FAFSA applications can be submitted as early as October.

One of the leading figures in the government's bailout of banks deemed "too big to fail" after the 2008 financial crisis says major banks are still at risk.

He Led The Financial Bailout But Says Banks Are Still Too Big To Fail Despite changes after the 2008 financial crisis, Neel Kashkari, one of the leading figures in the federal bailout, says major banks are still at risk. "I don't think we've gone far enough," he says.

Over the next few months, the nation’s three biggest banks will start rolling out ATMs that will let customers withdraw currency using their smartphones instead of debit cards — the latest step toward a future in which phones could replace bank branches and wallets.

Big banks entering the world of cardless ATMs

Confused About Your Student Loans? You're Not Alone
Here are the tips, tools and calculators that can help make sense of all that debt.

Americans have about $1.3 trillion in student loan debt.

Confused About Your Student Loans? You're Not Alone Here are the tips, tools and calculators that can help make sense of all that debt.

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Some Muggle figured out what 'Harry Potter' money is worth in real life A Reddit user figured out how the Wizarding World money in 'Harry Potter' exchanges into U.S. dollars.

Predicting the future of financial technology. http://mashable.com/2016/01/27/financial-tech-brandspeak/

Predicting the future of financial technology The ways we make purchases and conduct our financial business are changing as technology evolves.

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Dow falls 300 points as oil plunges to $35.59 a barrel

John Oliver: Student Debt (and other facts from history).

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Student Debt (HBO) John Oliver discusses student debt, which is awful, as well as for-profit colleges, who are awfully good at inflicting debt upon us. Connect with Last Week T...

In ancient times, a signature was required for all kinds of economic transactions. If you wanted to buy a goat, you had to sign a document. And just like with credit cards today, sometimes you had to sign even for smaller purchases.

Why Do We Sign For Things? A Rabbi, A Lawyer And A MasterCard Exec Explain The signature is supposed to say, "This is me." But why do we still use it?