Stories by paulpauper

One investor’s Amazon misfire led to a 99% loss in his trading account

When did America’s heart turn cold on buffet chains?

A student loan crisis is an underemployment catastrophe

Bodybuilders Find a New Way to Get Bigger: Reading (2016)

The Fake Strongmen of Instagram

How digital technology is destroying our freedom

All Phil Beans Wants Is to Give You Free Basketball Tickets

Faceless Together (2014)

Three Men Who Don’t Own a Smartphone

The Weird World of Vegan YouTube Stars Is Imploding

Entrepreneurism Is Overrated

The End of the New Deal Era–and the Coming Realignment

The Great Miscalculator: Response (why there won’t be a debt crisis in America)

Recessions, and the fear that another one is just around the corner, explained

De-Motivational Talks

Parents Are Robbing Their Children of Adulthood

There’s Danger in Misreading the Inverted Yield Curve

The Elaborate, Dying Art of Hustling for Money at Dave and Buster's

Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth After 35 Years [pdf]

Taleb wrong about IQ and wealth and income