BETHEL PARK, Pa. – At Ameri-Source Metals’ machine shop outside Pittsburgh, stacks of graphite stubs have begun to pile up in a quiet corner. Founder Ajay Goel said the customer who typically buys the stubs – a multinational chemicals company – now only needs one-fourth of the amount he used …

Some Robinhood users have been manipulating the stock-trading app to trade with what they’re calling “infinite leverage.” The cheat code was being shared on social media site Reddit, with one trader claiming he took a $1,000,000 position in stock using only a $4,000 deposit. Through Robinhood Gold, the start-up’s subscription …

Democratic presidential candidates (L-R) Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), former Vice President Joe Biden, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg enter the stage before the Democratic Presidential Debate at Otterbein University on October 15, 2019 in Westerville, Ohio. Win McNamee | Getty Images President Donald Trump …

Host Seth Meyers at his desk on July 24, 2017. Getty Image | NBC Tired of political jokes? That won’t stop you from enjoying Seth Meyers’ new comedy special on Netflix. The comedian and late night host’s new special “Lobby Baby” will feature a “skip politics” button, allowing viewers to …

Sven Hansche / EyeEm | EyeEm | Getty Images Whether heading home to visit family and friends or just fleeing to vacation hot spots, many Americans are planning to pack their bags for the coming winter holidays. Here’s a look at how many of us will hit the road and …

In Carmen Maria Machado’s memoir, “In the Dream House” — her debut story collection, “Her Body and Other Parties,” was a finalist for the 2017 National Book Award — doorknobs recur not as a clumsy or coercive symbol, but as evidence of Machado’s gift for narrative patternmaking. Through repetition, she …

THE REVISIONERS By Margaret Wilkerson Sexton “The Revisioners,” Margaret Wilkerson Sexton’s stunning new novel, is told in alternating chapters from the points of view of Ava and Josephine, two African-American women connected by blood and similar circumstances but divided by nearly a hundred years. The story begins in 2017 as …

A Chinese clerk counts renminbi yuan banknotes at a bank in China on December 2015. Jie Zhao | Corbis News | Getty Images The Chinese yuan soared past 7 per U.S. dollar on Tuesday, climbing to a fresh three-month high as investors became increasingly hopeful about the chances of a …

ON SWIFT HORSES By Shannon Pufahl “I did not place my dreams of California inside a long history of dreaming,” Shannon Pufahl wrote in her 2015 memoiristic essay “Interventions.” Something similar might be said of her Odyssean debut novel, “On Swift Horses.” It’s a book about the midcentury American West, …

Americans have a complicated relationship with cars. Aside from buying a home, a car is probably the second-most expensive purchase you will ever make in your life. After more than 10 years of writing about money on my personal finance website, Financial Samurai, I’ve found that being too fixated on …