RETHINKING FAIR PAY

Companies are overhauling compensation amid an uptick in relocations

MAKING CONTACT

Getting close enough to touch an animal usually isn't a great idea. But in a quiet lagoon on Mexico's Baja Peninsula, the whales are happy to oblige

BUILD BACKS BETTER

In a scoliosis market where treatments have changed little since the 1970s, even new brace technology shows how far we still have to go

The Teen Who Defied DeFi

How a young math whiz nabbed $16 million by exploiting decentralized finance | Index Finance was one of the great hopes of decentralized finance, the blockchain-based movement challenging Wall Street's gatekeepers. With one swift set of transactions, an 18-year-old math prodigy liquidated $16 million of its assets and opened a new legal frontier

Nigerian Projects Stall as Chinese Loans Dry Up

President Buhari's legacy could be marred by Beijing's waning appetite for costly public works abroad

The Twitter Deal's Big Debt Bill

If the acquisition goes through, the company will face mounting interest expenses as it tries to grow

The Very Last of Lehman Brothers

The bank whose collapse marked the beginning of the 2008 financial crisis is only mostly dead. Meet the people attending to its final remains

This Time Is Different

The slump that startups thought would never happen has arrived

Will American Owners Make Football More Like Football?

More than half of England's major soccer clubs will be backed by US money. That has fans worried

A Pharaoh Goes to Oxford

The star of the opera Akhnaten takes his role so seriously, he’s been offered a fellowship in Egyptology

Shanghai's Black Eye

Expats are ditching the city, jeopardizing efforts to turn it into a top financial hub in Asia

The Best A Man Can Get?

To be more relevant to younger consumers, Gillette introduced a retro line of men’s grooming products and teamed up with Bugatti on a $170 razor. The strategy seems to have pulled the company out of a, uh, hairy situation

Style Points

Shaina Taub, writer and composer of the off-Broadway hit Suffs, takes on The Devil Wears Prada—with some help from Elton John

The End of China's Bulk-Buying Boom

A distinctive form of e-commerce is in free fall after a shift in attitude in Beijing

STEAMED

FOR A MEASURE OF JUST HOW FED UP AMERICAN WORKERS ARE, LOOK TO STARBUCKS, WHERE BARISTAS ARE UNIONIZING ALA PACE THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN UNIMAGINABLE A YEAR AGO AND INSPIRING SIMILAR ACTIVISM ELSEWHERE

Wall Street Comes to Nashville

AllianceBernstein relocated 1,000 jobs in an effort to save $80 million a year

Why Land Is Key to Brazil's Presidency

Lagging Lula in polls, Bolsonaro is wooing rural voters by giving squatters title to their farms

Democrats' Inflation Anguish

Legislators are appealing to the White House to "do more" to contain prices

But What If There Aren't Plenty Of Fish in the Sea?

Investors say Forever Oceans’ technology will help build a new kind of marine farm

China's Stimulus Won't Bail Out the World

The drag from lockdowns will largely cancel any boost from new spending

How Mexico Claimed The Tourism Crown

The country defied the pandemic to become a top destination

Desire for Face Time Revives Business Travel

Companies are reporting more trips, proving doomsayers from the pandemic's darkest days wrong

ON JAPAN'S FRONT LINES

Dispatches from Asia's new Cold War

It's Not About You

At this year's Venice Biennale, the exhibitions have moved away from identity and portraiture toward a new end: The future

No More Play Money

A very long investing party is ending, and a nasty hangover awaits. But maybe markets will start making sense again?

A Crackdown Is Coming

Federal investigators are looking all over Wall Street for evidence of market rigging

A Juice Boost

Belkin's latest power bank will get your gadgets charged when outlets are hard to find

THIS ROUND'S ON BITCOIN

A Singaporean watering hole develops a devoted following among crypto enthusiasts

Worst Zestimate Ever

Why Zillow’s home-flipping moonshot never got out of orbit

U.S. Steel's Maxi Bet on Mini Mills

The metallurgical giant is betting on a new technology—and region—to survive