It’s time for the Fed to get on with raising short-term interest rates from zero

Shopify will be a major winner in Affirm’s IPO

The mega IPOs are shooting out of the gates again. Following DoorDash’s filing, buzzy fintech Affirm also filed to go public on the Nasdaq under the ticker symbol AFRM in a deal reportedly valuing the firm at as much as $10 billion. One big takeaway from the filing: Canadian e-commerce titan Shopify could stand to […]

Watch out Oprah. Supermodels on Instagram are hosting a new kind of book club

“Bookstagrammers” or “BookTokkers” are a fresh spin on the virtual book club model Oprah made famous. Read More

20 Things That Went Strangely, Wonderfully Right in 2020

So long, annus horribilis. Farewell, O rotten plague year. Dominus vobiscum. But as we utter our long-practiced goodbyes to 2020, let us pause for a moment to reflect upon the glad tidings that lay hidden in its miasmic haze. Yes, surprising as it may seem, there were some things that turned out darn well in […]