Tim Fernholz

Tim Fernholz is a reporter at Quartz.

Why Manicures Explain the Awesome Benefits of Low-Skilled Immigration

Why Manicures Explain the Awesome Benefits of Low-Skilled Immigration

Manicure innovation -- don't laugh -- is a real thing that has expanded access to formerly exclusive services. And the innovators are the immigrants. More »

Chinese Economic Reform: The World's Big Bet

Chinese Economic Reform: The World's Big Bet

A Hong Kong billionaire thinks China is on pace for spectacular, Industrial Revolution-style growth. Is he right? More »

$9 Minimum Wage! Universal Pre-K! And 10 More Big Ideas in Obama's State of the Union

$9 Minimum Wage! Universal Pre-K! And 10 More Big Ideas in Obama's State of the Union

Here's what's worth talking about in the President's speech More »

Why Is Belarus the Only Country Where Opera Is the Most Popular Browser?

Why Is Belarus the Only Country Where Opera Is the Most Popular Browser?

Authoritarianism. More »

This Is the Worst Election for Wall Street in Decades

This Is the Worst Election for Wall Street in Decades

The combination of President Obama, Elizabeth Warren, and a newly invigorated Democratic Party could make some bankers nervous More »

Why Mexico Is Rooting for U.S. Pot Legalization

Why Mexico Is Rooting for U.S. Pot Legalization

Making marijuana available north of the border could cut off revenue for drug trafficking organizations to the south of it. More »

Memo to Joe Biden: What I Learned From Covering Paul Ryan

Memo to Joe Biden: What I Learned From Covering Paul Ryan

A look at the Republican vice-presidential nominee's five secret weapons More »

Some Hedge Funds Only Seem Like Pirates—This One Actually Stole a Ship

Some Hedge Funds Only Seem Like Pirates—This One Actually Stole a Ship

So, you own some debt from Argentina. The country defaults. You still want to be paid in full. The solution? Hold an Argentine vessel for ransom, of course. More »

How Young People Could Lose Big on Election Day

How Young People Could Lose Big on Election Day

For Millennials, the US election is a generational battle with billions at stake More »

Why Do Brazil, China, and India Get All the Entrepreneurs These Days?

Why Do Brazil, China, and India Get All the Entrepreneurs These Days?

Indian-American academic Vivek Wadhwa discusses. More »

Global Marketplace: 81% of Real-Estate Buyers in London are Foreigners

Global Marketplace: 81% of Real-Estate Buyers in London are Foreigners

And more than half are Asian. More »

Cut, Cap and Balance: The Most Radical GOP Plan Will Get a Vote

Cut, Cap and Balance: The Most Radical GOP Plan Will Get a Vote

Republicans want to restrict spending and amend the Constitution More »

Pawlenty's Economic Plan Borrows From Reagan, Ryan

Pawlenty's Economic Plan Borrows From Reagan, Ryan

The former Minnesota governor laid out an aggressive plan to cut taxes and reduce spending More »

Boehner to Wall Street: We Won't Raise Debt Ceiling Without Cuts

Boehner to Wall Street: We Won't Raise Debt Ceiling Without Cuts

The House speaker lays out his terms in a speech to New York executives More »

Paul Ryan's Big, Questionable Cuts

Paul Ryan's Big, Questionable Cuts

The Republican Budget chairman says his plan would save trillions, but it's not clear that his numbers are credible More »

Democratic Governors Take Softer Approach to Unions

Democratic Governors Take Softer Approach to Unions

While their GOP counterparts favor confrontation and bombast, Democratic governors ask labor for concessions and get them without fuss More »

Obama's Budget: Cuts and Investment

Obama's Budget: Cuts and Investment

What's in the president's proposal More »

Obama Eyes Corporate Tax Reform

Obama Eyes Corporate Tax Reform

The White House wants business to get on board with broad-based reform, not just lower rates More »

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