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Money and The World

How money shapes the world we live in

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    Was 2024 Terrific? Main Street and Wall Street Disagree!

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    U.S. Stocks Are Booming. No One Agrees on What Will Happen Next

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    Everyone Knows Canadian Monopolies Are a Problem. Why Can’t We Do Anything About It?

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For a Shot at Cycling Glory, Amos Scott Bouris Just Needs Talent, a Little Luck, and $400,000

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Is Canada's Economy a Dud? A Semi-Official Investigation

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How 2023 Cracked Wall Street’s Crystal Ball

Illustration by Melanie Lambrick

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The Story of the Stock Market, Told by Five Companies

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The World Is on Fire. Yet Life Is ... Getting Better?

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Why Do We Think Stock Markets Will Go Up Over Time, Anyway?

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This Is Not Normal: A Letter From the Toronto Real-Estate Forever Boom

Wealth isn't just the money you earn at work — it points to the financial history of a family and a people. And our history is fraught.

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The Racial Wealth Gap Is a Problem

The world’s most popular cryptocurrency has had a very rotten month — to put it mildly. Here’s what’s going on, and what it might mean for the token’s future.

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The Big Bitcoin Drop, Explained

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What’s Up With All Those Crypto Laser-Eyes Profile Pics? A Definitive Investigation

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We Discovered the True Identity of the NFT Artist “Pak”

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Dumb Questions For Smart People: Why Parenting Inequities Make Mothers Leave the Workforce

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GME, Doge, Supreme: How Getting Rich Went Full Internet

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Data: Who Really Traded GME? Why? And What Happened to Them?

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How to Buy Fleeting Moments in Sports History

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The Code That Controls Your Money

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The Long-Term Economic Disaster of Cash Bail

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We Asked Our Resident Stock Market Genius About the Animal Crossing Economy

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What the Hell is Actually Going on in the Economy Right Now?

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We All Went a Little Crazy on Tesla Stock. And That Tells Us a Lot

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The Price of Love (Meow!)

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Kawhi: Best. Trade. Ever. In history. Of the Universe.

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Dumb Questions for Smart People: Why Helicopter Parenting Is a Response to Income Inequality

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The Price of Love (Woof!)

Marriage has a profound effect on the financial lives of women. And the financial lives of women have a profound effect on their marriages.

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Marriage: The Money Story

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Dumb Questions for Smart People: Why Our Brains Like Gambling

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What Does it Mean to be a “Millionaire” Now?

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Most of Our Clients are Men. We Wanted to Figure Out the Problem.

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Dumb Questions for Smart People: Teaching Our Kids to Be Financial Geniuses

Yang’s candidacy has taken off in a way almost no one predicted. And at the center of it is an unconventional economic idea: universal basic income.

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Dumb Questions for Smart People: A Money Conversation with Insurgent Presidential Candidate Andrew Yang

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A Deep (But Not TOO Deep) Explanation of What We Mean by 'Diversification'

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What’s the Best Way to Put Your Tax Refund to Work?

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Dumb Questions for Smart People: How Hedge Funds Warp Our World

Your gut tells you to buy when you're feeling good about the market and to sell when you're not. Your gut is wrong. Here's why long-term investing works.

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History of Finance Proves: Your “Gut” is Mostly Wrong

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Prediction: The Predictions Will Be Wrong

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What Does Warren Buffett's $1m Bet Have to Do With Your Wealthsimple Account?

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Why Sometimes Markets Go Up But Good Portfolios Go Down

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The Supreme Retirement Plan: How to Become a Millionaire by Flipping Streetwear

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What's the Smartest Thing You Can Do With Your Tax Refund?

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Why Melissa McCarthy Is a Better Return on Investment Than Tom Cruise

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Nine Things Wealthsimple Doesn't Spend Money On

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The Real Super Bowl LI Battle Is Between Canada and America

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Congratulations, Millennials! You’re Doing Way Better Than People Think.

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Measuring the TSX Index: What the Data Tells Us About Canada

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We Bought a Super Bowl Ad Because It Was Undervalued

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The Loonie Is Weak Against the Greenback. How Bad Is That for Canada?

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Anxious Investors Are Scooping Up Gold. Is That a Good Idea?

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We Can Fix the Housing Crisis! (Maybe! If We Follow These Steps!)

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Stocks Hit Fresh Highs. Is It a Bad Time to Invest?

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Money 2023: The Year of ‘Wow, That Wasn’t So Bad After All’

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What’s the Legacy of the $GME Mania? We Asked the “Dumb Money” Writers to Weigh In

Stocks have boomed this year. Yet many DIY investors have sprinted from markets — and missed out on big returns. What spooked them?

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2023: The Year of FOMM (Fear of Making Money)

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The 10 Most Interesting People in Money Right This Second

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End Times for Tech Stocks?

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How Long is This Bear Market Going to Last?

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2022: The Year We Said Farewell to FOMO

The EU gas crisis is getting worse

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What Happens When Russia Turns Off Your Economy?

The ETH Merge Is Almost Here. Probably Time To Understand It…

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The ETH Merge Is Almost Here. Probably Time To Understand It…

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The Chipmaker at the Center of the Taiwan-China Standoff, and Global Trade

The Chinese-owned video platform has ushered in a new social-media epoch, one where personal content — like your beach-trip pics, or your kids’ soccer highlights — no longer carries the day. That’s a huge problem for legacy social media.

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In the War Against TikTok, Zuck Has Algorithm Envy

We Know About the Gender Pay Gap and the Race Pay Gap. But There’s a 2SLGBTQIA+ Pay Gap, Too.

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We Know About the Gender Pay Gap and the Race Pay Gap. But There’s a 2SLGBTQIA+ Pay Gap, Too.

When stocks fall, bonds typically go up. But for the first time in a (very) long time, that hasn’t been the case.

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Bonds Are Supposed to Limit Losses When Stocks Are Down. What Happened?

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Why Does Everyone Care About Commodities All of a Sudden?

Here’s how we build our managed portfolios to withstand a downturn. (And, yes, that means some losses are normal.)

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How to Understand Your Portfolio Performance When Everything is Down

Some video-subscription services, like Netflix, are struggling — and finally facing real competition.

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Is Netflix Still a Growth Stock Now? And Other Streaming Wars Questions Answered

Inflation is raising the price of nearly everything in Canada. But we found five products that don’t really cost more money.

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Weed Is Still (Relatively) Cheap! And Four Other Stories of Non-Inflation

And other insights from Jay Newman, the hedge fund insider turned novelist who has some unique insights into the darker corners of the world of finance.

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“The Richest People on the Planet are Criminals”

Professor, social scientist and author of “The Power of Us” Jay Van Bavel on how who we are, and how we behave, is formed by the groups we belong to — or are told we belong to.

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How Tribalism Affects What We Do With Money

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30 Essential Twitter Accounts To Follow If You Care About Crypto

Military conflict and economic sanctions in Ukraine are creating an environment for crypto to flourish. It’s not clear yet what that will mean.

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How the Brutal War in Ukraine Could Also Change Crypto

Financial sanctions are already being levied against Russia in response to the country’s invasion of Ukraine. But cutting off access to SWIFT would be a big step — here’s why.

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The Global Banking System That Could Cut Off Russia

Short-term inflation tells one story about the world at the moment. But price differences over the past 22 years tell us a different story about how the world works. And, yes, there is chicken involved.

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Why a Fancy Chicken Dinner Costs the Same as a 42-inch TV

The stock market has been, at best, extremely volatile lately. Here’s our quick guide to what happened, what’s likely to happen, and what to do about it.

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The Corrections, 2022: How to Understand What’s Happening in the Markets

Money 2021: The Year of ‘Oh Wait, That’s Never Happened Before.’ GameStop, Shiba Inu, shipping containers, Twitter, a dollar sign, coins, Ethereum, a pie chart, and COVID-19 float around a large 2021 symbol.

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Money 2021: The Year of ‘Oh Wait, That’s Never Happened Before’

Whenever the market tumbles, as it did this week, you can bet on one thing: news outlets start buying stock photos of anxious (probably male, middle-aged) traders to post with their stories. We investigated what these folks are actually concerned about.

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The True Thoughts of the “Worried Stock Market Guys”

It isn’t because of the value of Bitcoin or the rise of some altcoin. It’s because crypto could create a new technological era.

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Why We’re Excited About Crypto

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The Wealthsimple Debates: We Grilled Three Parties on Money, Tech, and Jobs

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Loot Is Like Dungeons & Dragons. It’s Also the Future of Crypto

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We Found the NFT Marriage Proposal Guy

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What Does China's Tech Crackdown Teach Us About Investing?

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Ethereum Got Way Better Last Week

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The Wealthsimple Explainer: NFTs

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Tesla Invested Billions in Bitcoin. But That May Not Be the Biggest Crypto News

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Meme Stocks: How Old Regulations Kept Traders from Getting the Best Advice

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Super Bowl Ads Are Super Expensive. They’re Also a Better Deal

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We Fact-Check Theories About Meme Stocks and Online Brokerages

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How the GameStop Phenomenon Happened. And Why the Losers May Not Be Who You Think

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The Market Value of My Father

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The Election-Betting Market Was Smarter Than the Polls. Here’s How it Works

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Economic Freakout 2020: The ‘What Now’ Edition

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How to Get Rich (or Go Broke) By Buying Pretend Sushi

Why the Stock Market Is a Bad Economic Indicator

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Why Are Stock Market Numbers So Wacko Right Now?

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Dumb Questions for Smart People: The Pioneer of Burnout Theory Tells Us About Millennials and Money

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