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money $25,000,000 will buy you Snapchat's former beachfront HQ Jason Weisberger
finders keepers Bank accidentally deposited $50 billion in a family's bank account David Pescovitz
money MacKenzie Scott to donate another $2.74B to charities, Jeff is going to space for 11 minutes Jason Weisberger
credit reporting How credit cards work, explained with evil fairy mobsters Thom Dunn
Alan Turing Turing £50 note revealed Rob Beschizza
GameStop Robinhood plays sheriff for Wall Street, blocking users from buying popular stocks Rob Beschizza
stimulus payments Millions of pandemic stimulus payments were deposited in wrong customer accounts due to IRS error, says TurboTax Xeni Jardin
decimal system Excellent 1966 Australian PSA on the switch from £sd to decimalized currency Mark Frauenfelder
richard murphy Economist Richard Murphy explains what money and taxes actually are and how they work Thom Dunn
qanon Patreon bans conspiracy theorists Rob Beschizza
yandex Yandex to buy Tinkoff for $5.5 billion from Russian bank TCS Group Xeni Jardin
money U.S. economy shrank at record-breaking 33% last quarter, as 1.4M sought unemployment aid last week Xeni Jardin
millions of dollars $1 million vs. $1 billion compared as a road trip Andrea James
bitcoin The U.S. Internal Revenue Service made a deal with Coinbase Xeni Jardin
bills More than $250k in counterfeit US bills seized in Cincinnati David Pescovitz
grants Artist shares 11 tips to apply for COVID-19 financial support Rusty Blazenhoff
job loss Nearly 3 million more unemployment claims in U.S. as COVID-19 job losses total 36 million Xeni Jardin
unemployment Jobs report shows 20.5 million lost jobs in April and unemployment surged to 14.7% Xeni Jardin
currency Fellow buried $280,000, not a good investment David Pescovitz
ad biz Facebook may lose seal of approval that gives ad buyers confidence they get what they buy in advertising, WSJ reports Xeni Jardin