Best New Ideas in Money

    To change the world, we may need to change money first. Best New Ideas in Money explores innovations that rethink how we live, work, spend, save and invest. Each week, MarketWatch financial columnist James Rogers and economist Stephanie Kelton will talk to leaders in business, tech, finance and government about the next phase of money's evolution, and meet real people whose lives are being changed as these new ideas are put to the test.

  • Introducing On Watch by MarketWatch

  • The best of the best new ideas in money

  • ’Tis the season...for benefits enrollment

  • Why more Americans are working into their 70s

  • Will AI save unicorn tech startups from going extinct?

  • Does private equity beat stocks?

  • Could collectibles boost your portfolio?

  • You asked. MarketWatch reporters and editors answered.

  • Revitalized unions ignite ‘hot labor summer’

  • Can new technology help you keep your cool amid climate change?

  • The best, new ideas of 2023—so far

  • Why taking time off pays off

  • Are magic mushrooms going mainstream?

  • The latest in student-debt forgiveness

  • How the U.S. women’s soccer team scored pay equity

  • Can nuclear power save the world?

  • A mammoth mission

  • The future of space exploration

  • How to be happier at work

  • The future of oil

  • Why companies — and people — should embrace failure

  • Would $10,000 convince you to move to a new city?

  • Does buy-now-pay-later pay off?

  • What’s wrong with personal-finance advice?

  • The value of a corporate apology

  • What happens if people stop going to the office?

  • Why do 99.5% of big projects go wrong?

  • One of the oldest climate-change solutions may be one of the best

  • Our great forgotten tax experiment

  • How ‘digital twins’ could reshape healthcare

  • The roadmap for your next reinvention

  • Do collectibles belong in your portfolio?

  • Solutions to help ease the housing shortage

  • The best new ways to get financial help

  • Does the Fed have a monopoly on ‘Fed’-ing?

  • Using our waste in new ways

  • How the ‘influencer’ industry grew out of an economic crisis

  • America goes all in on sports betting

  • How do lifesaving cancer drugs actually get made?

  • Is there a business case for magic mushrooms?

  • Could an exit exam boost the value of higher education?

  • The year ahead in money

  • The future of affordable housing

  • How to plan a sabbatical

  • Big ideas of 2022—from debt relief to the end of superlow interest rates

  • Do Americans love tipping? Why it’s not going away any time soon

  • How Adam Smith became an icon of capitalism

  • Is it time to take another look at legal immigration?

  • Would more immigration boost U.S. innovation?

  • This holiday season, buy nothing

  • Have you considered quitting? You should.

  • Do political ads persuade?

  • Buy now, pay forever?

  • The Zero-Down-Payment Mortgage

  • Is popular personal-finance advice on the money?

  • Making chips at home again

  • Healthy habits from the Best New Ideas in Money Festival

  • Consider the prenup

  • Book Club: YouTube’s chaotic rise to world domination

  • Are we wasting our waste?

  • Investing in breakthrough technologies, breakfast and beyond

  • Redesigning your life map

  • Clean out your junk drawers, clean up your finances

  • The recession question

  • The case for sabbaticals

  • The robot in the next cubicle

  • Are passwords a thing of the past?

  • Book Club: Cloud Money

  • Gen Z goes to work

  • When will electric vehicles rule the road?

  • Over a century ago, electric cars almost went mainstream

  • Is the 60/40 portfolio becoming a relic?

  • The reinvention of downtown

  • Do something. Buy nothing.

  • The road ahead for public transit

  • No college degree? ‘No problem,’ say more and more employers

  • Return to office is here. Could the 4-day work week be next?

  • A new path to home ownership

  • Unpacking the mystery of credit scores

  • Can an aquarium breathe life into a city?

  • Book Club: The Bond King

  • Is setting our clocks forward a thing of the past?

  • Why it might pay to be cheap

  • Is there an actual use for NFTs?

  • Could you someday text the IRS your tax return?

  • Is your company's culture too tight or too loose?

  • What can we learn from Monopoly?

  • When will inflation end? And other big money questions

  • Need to declutter? Try Swedish death cleaning

  • Can an ice storm predict the next meme stocks?

  • Data and Goliath

  • How to plan a 100-year life

  • Could the bank of the future be a post office?

  • Here's what could happen if we canceled all student debt

  • How crypto is making us rethink money

  • Want to change your money habits in 2022? Use a snudge

  • Money: We totally made it up

  • A new kind of game theory

  • The economics of switching to a 4-day work week

  • The science of giving better gifts

  • Your money questions, answered

  • A financial innovation that could cure diseases

  • How smart-home tech could slash the cost of long-term care

  • New ways to fight inflation

  • Does the economy grow on trees?

  • Hack your brain to fix your wallet

  • Can your quirky personality stop a thief?

  • How to turn every baby into a trust-fund baby

  • To fix the world, show everyone your paycheck

  • Coming Soon: Best New Ideas in Money

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