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North Korea’s $1.5 billion crypto hack exposes bitcoin’s weakness
MarketWatch, Feb 26, 2025 [PDF]
Don’t get too excited, Bitcoin is still worthless
The Telegraph, Dec 05, 2024 [PDF]
New Course Enrollment System Proposed to Decrease Stress and Increase Equity
The Stanford Daily, Supriya Patel, Oct 24, 2024 [PDF]
Crypto Brothers Front-Ran the Front-Runners
Bloomberg, Matt Levine, Aug 07, 2024 [PDF]
The Great Ticket Disaster
Scholastic Scope Magazine, Oct 01, 2023 [PDF]
How the Dysfunctional Ticketing Market Harms Artists & Fans — And What Can Be Done to Fix It
Billboard, Taylor Mims, Jul 18, 2023 [PDF]
Angry Taylor Swift Fans Push Lawmakers to Take on Ticketmaster
The Washington Post, Andrea Salcedo and Julian Mark, Jun 12, 2023 [PDF]
Two Choices for Selling Tickets
Conversable Economist, Timothy Taylor, Apr 11, 2023 [PDF]
Beyoncé Is Going on Tour. Is Ticketmaster Ready?
The Washington Post, Julian Mark and Bethonie Butler, Feb 01, 2023 [PDF]
Everyone Hates Ticketmaster. Is Everyone Wrong?
Los Angeles Times, August Brown, Jan 23, 2023 [PDF]
What an Unusual Auction Says About the Art Market
The Economist, Dec 17, 2022 [PDF]
Taylor Swift’s Ticketmaster Meltdown: What Happened? Who’s to Blame?
The Washington Post, Julian Mark, Nov 18, 2022 [PDF]
Chicago Trading Firms Will Feel Shock Waves From FTX Bankruptcy
Crain's Chicago Business, John Pletz and Steve Daniels, Nov 14, 2022 [PDF]
How Costly is Trust in the Blockchain?
Marginal Revolution, Tyler Cowen, Jul 26, 2022 [PDF]
Behind the Celsius Sales Pitch was a Crypto Firm Built on Risk
Wall Street Journal, Eliot Brown and Caitlin Ostroff, Jun 29, 2022 [PDF]
Freakonomics Podcast, Does the Crypto Crash Mean the Blockchain Is Over?
Freakonomics Podcast, Stephen J. Dubner, Jun 22, 2022 [PDF]
How ‘Trustless’ Is Bitcoin, Really?
New York Times, Siobhan Roberts, Jun 08, 2022 [PDF]
Politicians Want to Ban Bot-Fueled Online SHopping. Experts Agree.
Mashable, Jack Morse, Nov 30, 2021 [PDF]
Podcast Transcript
Slate, Nov 21, 2021 [PDF]
Why Are Bots Buying Sneakers?
Slate, What Next: TBD Podcast, Oct 29, 2021 [Podcast]
You Could Be Competing With Bots to Buy Gifts This Christmas
Bloomberg Businessweek, Joshua Hunt, Oct 25, 2021 [PDF]
How High-Frequency Traders Are Costing the Rest of Us Billions of Dollars Each Year
MarketWatch, Mark Hulbert, Aug 07, 2021 [PDF]
Measuring the 15-Microsecond Dash with Professor Eric “Batch” Budish
IEX Boxes and Lines Podcast, Ronan Ryan and John Ramsay, Jul 28, 2021
We Can Sustainably End the Pandemic with 7.2 Billion Vaccine Courses a Year: Chicago Booth’s Eric Budish
The Economic Times, Srijana Mitra Das, ET Bureau, Jun 19, 2021 [PDF]
Bitcoin Holders Have No Choice but to Trust in Chinese Crypto Miners
MarketWatch, Mark Hulbert, May 28, 2021 [PDF]
How Can More Covid-19 Vaccines be Made Available?
The Economist, May 15, 2021 [PDF]
The Big Pharma CEO Who’s Helping to Put an End to COVID-19
Newsweek, Lee Habeeb, Apr 26, 2021 [PDF]
How Is This Legal?
Reveal News, Byard Duncan, Mar 08, 2021 [PDF]
Think GameStop Is Wild? Meet Dogecoin, the Meme-Inspired Digital Currency That Began As a Joke and Is Now Worth Billions
Chicago Tribune, John Keilman, Feb 04, 2021 [PDF]
William Watson: Carrots, Sticks and Sledgehammers
Financial Post, William Watson, Dec 01, 2020 [PDF]
The Future of Money
Becker Friedman Institute for Economics at the University of Chicago- Pandemic Economics Podcast, Nov 05, 2020
Money Stuff: Latency Arbitrage
Bloomberg, Matt Levine, Jan 28, 2020 [PDF]
FCA Researchers Outline $5bn ‘Tax’ Imposed by High-Speed Trading
Financial Times, Philip Stafford, Jan 27, 2020 [PDF]
Ultrafast Trading Costs Stock Investory Nearly $5 Billion a Year, Study Says
Wall Street Journal, Alexander Osipovich, Jan 27, 2020 [PDF]
Frustrated with Event Ticketing? New Ventures Try to Help
AP News, Jamie Stengle, Aug 24, 2019 [PDF]
The Trades Are Free, the Data Will Cost You
Matt Levine, Matt Levine, May 21, 2019 [PDF]
Bitcoin Is Less Secure Than Most People Think
Marginal Revolution, Alex Tabarrok, Jan 07, 2019 [PDF]
SEC Commissioner Calls for Regulators to Bolster Market Oversight
Wall Street Journal, Gretchen Morgenson, Sep 18, 2018 [PDF]
Why Bitcoin Will Never Replace Gold
Barron's, Mark Hulbert, Jul 31, 2018 [PDF]
Rental Attacks Mean That Blockchains Must Evolve or Die
Techcrunch, Abe Othman, Jul 22, 2018 [PDF]
Bitcoin Looks More Like Gold Than a Currency
Bloomberg, Noah Smith, Jul 11, 2018 [PDF]
Bitcoin’s Inherent Economics Could Keep It from Ever Being Very Important
MIT Technology Review, Mike Orcutt, Jul 06, 2018 [PDF]
Why Is the Live-Event Ticket Market So Screwed Up?
Freakonomics Podcast, Dec 06, 2017 [Podcast]
Performance Ticket Auctions: Going, Going, Gone
The NBER Digest, Laurent Belsie, Dec 01, 2017 [PDF]
Fans Watch Taylor Swift, Economists Watch the Fans
Bloomberg, Scott Duke Kominers, Aug 29, 2017
Why Preventing Cancer Is Not the Priority in Drug Development
New York Times, Austin Frakt, Dec 28, 2015 [PDF]
What Cures Are We Missing Out On?
Bloomberg, John Tozzi, Sep 30, 2015 [PDF]
Frequent but Inefficient
The Economist, Nov 27, 2014 [PDF]
Technology Brings Choice to MBA Students
Financial Times, Della Bradshaw, Nov 23, 2014 [PDF]
Patents That Kill
The Economist, A.T., Aug 08, 2014 [PDF]
Slowing Down the Stock Market
Bloomberg Editorial, Editorial Board, Jun 18, 2014 [PDF]
Everything You Need to Know About High-Frequency Trading
The Atlantic, Matthew O’Brien, Apr 11, 2014 [PDF]
Professor Proposes Slowing Down Automated Trading
Chicago Tribune, Ameet Sachdev, Mar 30, 2014 [PDF]
High-Speed Traders Still Trading Faster than Low-Speed Traders
Bloomberg, Matt Levine, Mar 18, 2014 [PDF]
Declawing Speed Traders Is Goal of Stock Market Revamp Proposal
Bloomberg, Sam Mamudi, Feb 19, 2014 [PDF]
Gaming Wharton’s Course Scheduling System Just Got Tougher
Bloomberg Businessweek, Louis Lavelle, Sep 19, 2013 [PDF]
Why Aren’t There More Cancer Vaccines?
Slate, Ray Fisman, Aug 26, 2013 [PDF]
