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"Overpromise, and underdeliver" has become a running theme of crowdfunders.

The coronavirus pandemic has dramatically transformed the global retail industry landscape. Here's a data visualization of which brands have grown and declined the most.

Horsepower ain't cheap but Donut Media crunched the numbers and found the cars with the best horsepower without breaking the bank.

Our economy is built on Americans of all class levels buying things. What happens when the ability — and desire — to do so goes away?

Dr. Steven Levine, New York plastic surgeon, on the plastic surgery requests he has gotten during quarantine.

Peter Fitzek is part of a movement that denies Germany's existence. He founded his own kingdom and bank — then the government started asking where the money went.

His Airness has attempted to sell his Chicago home for eight years. The home that was originally listed at $29 million is now listed at just less than $14.9 million.

Facebook's big purchase of Giphy is a match made in heaven. Both companies made the web boring and predictable.

A Chicago suburb is on the hook for millions to operate the Sears Centre arena — an amount that in some years accounts for as much as 14 per cent of its budget.

As companies increasingly relocate to urban centers, sprawling, once-trendy corporate campuses like Sears' and Kmart's have been left crumbling in the suburbs.

The spike in unemployment in America was inevitable. Germany, and many other countries in Western Europe, have a program to protect workers and jobs.

Don't think of that number as "big" or "bold." Just think of it as the appropriate dosage for a once-in-a-century economic affliction.

The coronavirus crisis has transformed our system for compensating jobless workers.

For undocumented restaurant workers, life during coronavirus has few safety nets.

A new book reveals fresh details about the man authorities blamed for the Flash Crash that erased $1 trillion of value in a matter of minutes.

After years of undermining health policy to aid their Big Pharma patrons, patient advocacy groups are making claims to federal pandemic relief.

The warrant marks a major escalation of the investigation of stock trades by lawmakers as the coronavirus spread.

How selling small squares of paperboard or thick paper became a lucrative business.

In the battle between data brokers and privacy advocates, the latest front is the credit card.

The inability to work — let alone hustle and grind — has placed added stress on even the most frugal savers.

Amber Coffman, Of Montreal, and Zola Jesus gave VICE their thoughts on asking for donations on the multi-billion-dollar platform after coronavirus put them out of a job.

The 1933 double eagle is a rarity for coin collectors and for a time, the circulation of these coins were illegal.

With commercial flights grounded, the well-connected rely on these planes to move their precious cargo, from PPE to gold bullion.

The town of Stringtown, Oklahoma generated $483,646 in traffic fines during fiscal year 2013 — making up 76 percent of all Stringtown revenue. What's the deal?

The next couple of years could be a once-in-a-lifetime chance to buy a first home for the lucky people who still have jobs.

The Tanana River's annual melt has thrilled gamblers for over a century.

A third of Americans expect their households' finances to be worse a year from now.

Mississippi has taken a cue from Trump and is attempting to reopen while this week the state reached its highest numbers of coronavirus cases and deaths.

Oliver also dives into the repercussions of the USPS going broke and why it's important for us to save this service, despite all our possible grievances towards it.

The economy is in free fall but Wall Street is thriving and stocks of big private equity firms are soaring dramatically higher. That tells you who investors think is the real beneficiary of the federal government's massive rescue efforts.

Small primary care practices are turning to crowdfunding to survive. If they don't make it, it's a loss for all of us.

The country faces the same problem today that it did two months ago: There are not enough tests to contain the virus.

The New York Times dramatically illustrated the enormity of the economic downturn on their front page Saturday, showing how job losses in the United States from April were the worst since The Great Depression with this stunning infographic.

An antiviral almost identical to remdesivir is widely available in China's underground marketplaces — as a game-changing treatment for a different coronavirus in cats.

The estimate for the Jordans going up for sale is $100,000 to $150,000.

Danes haven't built a "socialist" country. Just one that works.

The April jobs report published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics this morning was record-breaking in every conceivable and terrible way.

Remember last month, when the jobs report was bad but not apocalyptic? Those were the days.

US employers shed a record number of jobs in April, as the unemployment rate climbed to the highest since the Great Depression. The coronavirus crisis has locked down much of the economy.

Restaurants expect to lose $240 billion by the end of the year, but for Grubhub, "COVID-19 is a net tailwind" for now.

No income, major medical bills and an unknown end date. The coronavirus pandemic has exposed the fragility of America's safety net.

This pushes us past the 33.5 million total estimated number of jobs lost during the past seven weeks.

The central bank said Thursday that the British economy could shrink by 14% this year. That would be the biggest annual contraction since 1706, based on the bank's own best estimate of historical data.

The stock market plunged when the coronavirus crisis set in. But now it's on the rise, even as the pandemic continues, unemployment skyrockets, and GDP falls. What gives?

Because Disney is in so many businesses — theme parks, hotels and resorts, cruises, movies, television, streaming, retail — it will provide a nice case study of whether the coronavirus "changes everything" in the long run.

An appreciation of the stretch limo, a status symbol that will never line the block again.

Amid a global oil collapse, the military is overpaying politically connected contractors to keep its jets fueled in Iraq.

Americans for Progressive Action USA filed elaborate campaign finance reports, listing vendors that were never paid and ads that never ran.

As the pandemic squeezes big companies, executives are making decisions about who will bear the brunt of the sacrifices. In many cases, workers have been the first to lose even as shareholders continue to collect.

France, Germany, Denmark, the United Kingdom and others are seeking to limit the scope of the economic downturn from the coronavirus by paying private-sector salaries. Can the United States do this too?

Are a generation of reckless unicorn startups dying — or just going into hibernation?

Finding a spot is the first skill. But timing is everything.

To understand the President's path to the 2020 election, look at what he has provided the country's executive class.

In Brian Yuzna's subversive take on the old money vs. new money trope, the rich don't eat the poor — they eat the slightly less rich.

Older Americans are about to learn how hard it is to stay afloat. I clung to the middle class as I aged. The pandemic pulled me under.

Essential workers are banding together to protest the companies' responses to COVID-19. But as one organizer says, they're fighting against giants.

The coronavirus has revealed so many of our institutions to be vulnerable or broken. But that doesn't mean they will change.

Edward is 20 years old and he has never had a job. Unlike most of his peers, he didn't work Saturday shifts in restaurants or grocery stores as a teenager, but also unlike most of his peers, he graduated high school $20,000 richer than when he started.

The length of almost two football fields, the cargo ship Jupiter Spirit arrived in Los Angeles' harbor on April 24 after an almost three-week journey from Japan, ready to unload its cargo of about 2,000 Nissan Armada SUVs, Rogue crossovers and Infiniti sedans in a quick, half-day operation.