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There's Big Bucks In Mouth-Hurting

Cruelty pays.

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Scenes From The Financial Future

by The Awl What does our financial future look like? Awl pal Hallie Bateman has some thoughts.

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So Is Writing A Job Or Not?

Writers have an answer. Photo: Matt Zhang Is writing a job? The Billfold’s Ester Bloom says no: Kafka, Dickens, Nabokov — they all had day jobs. Novelists have day jobs! Roxane Gay, who is busy and...

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How Much Does It Cost To Bum A Cigarette?

A Neo-Marxist Cost-Benefit Analysis Of Bumming Cigarettes Hint: it’s not worth it. Image: Jose Roco It is a truth universally whatever that someone talking to a stranger smoking outside a bar must be...

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Money Trouble

Can this exploitative economic system be saved? Photo: The Hamster Factor Now that we have decided the Enlightenment was a mistake, how long will it be before we come to the same conclusion about...

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The Second Sort-Of Annual Change Bowl Guessing Game

(The first one was eight years ago.) According to Dusty Matthews, Awl technician and Texan anthropologist, “the worst development for society in the last 4–6 years or so is TD Bank taking their coin...

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The Second Sort-Of Annual Change Bowl Cash-In!

The results are in and everyone overshot the mark. Good morning. I may have scolded you too harshly last week, because most everyone except for steve rousseau (nice) had a guess that was too high and I...

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The Trumps' wedding cake, an obscene snow globe, and Monet's glasses

Lot 1: Let Them Eat Cake Courtesy of Julien’s Auctions Auction houses occasionally serve up pieces of famous people’s old wedding cakes for reasons unfathomable to all but a few. This stale morsel was...

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New Money

Image: Roy Luck via Flickr A few years back, I spent a summer in Houston acting like I had money. Then I fell in with some white kids who came from money. I guess you could call it a scene. All gallery...

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Felix Salmon, "Fusion Money," and Floating Upward

Last Friday, just after 2pm, the financial journalist Felix Salmon posted a blog titled “Why I’m Leaving Fusion.” It was a very short post indeed: So, that is a provocative shruggie, is it not? At the...

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