I’m as paranoid as the next guy. My family and I live in Portland, Oregon, doomed to destruction since it lies within the Cascadian subduction zone. After reading, in this magazine, Kathryn Schulz’s article about our fate, and subsequently freaking...
Ali Khan is a corporate ninja. He has a black belt in Lean Six Sigma, an amalgam of two hyper-methodical management systems developed by Toyota and Motorola. Khan is all in. To get his belt, he had to pass 13 exams...
Starting an exchange-traded mutual fund is a little like launching a rocket. There are lots of different contractors and regulations. And there are plenty of crashes. Andrew Chanin, the 30-year-old founder of New York–based PureFunds, watched two of his first three ETFs fail before...
To Jeff Jetton, the four hours it takes to make Jello shots is an eternity—and an opportunity. Bars love selling the jiggly, boozy confections because they’re money makers. But no bartender or sous-chef likes boiling water, mixing the powder, adding the...
The Ghawar oil field in Saudi Arabia and the Bakken in North Dakota were both discovered around 1950. One didn’t produce much, until wildcatters figured out how to frack deep rock. Now, the fate of the two fields could be...
To hear Jamie Dimon tell it, regulation and the cost of compliance are becoming a threat to the American dream. “In the old days, you dealt with one regulator when you had an issue, maybe two,” the JPMorgan Chase CEO...
For fun, Curtis Macnguyen likes to run along the seafloor in 15 feet of water, carrying a boulder. He does it offshore from his house on the blue-watered Kona Coast of Hawaii’s Big Island, not far from similar spreads owned by Michael...
Few people have profited more from the so-called smart-beta craze than Tom Dorsey. A new exchange-traded fund that he runs using a century-old charting method took in $1.2 billion last year. Then, in January, he sold his 22-person investment firm...
The pitchman for Robinhood, the no-fee stock brokerage, looks a little like actor Seth Rogen: bearded, chubby, and possibly stoned. In the company’s 80-second online ads, he takes aim at millennials, assuring them that they don’t much cash to triumph in...
The resignation of Oregon Governor John Kitzhaber on Friday is another pelt on the wall for Nigel Jaquiss, a Goldman Sachs oil trader turned muck-raking journalist. Jaquiss, 52, works at Willamette Week, the free alternative weekly in Portland where he reported on...