
The Best Articles, Videos, and Newsletters in Finance
The most useful articles, videos, and newsletters in Finance from around the web, curated by thought leaders and our community.
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Top 5 Finance Articles
At a glance: these are the articles that have been most read, shared, and saved in Finance by Refind users in 2026 so far.
Videos
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Don't Go Into Finance Just to Make Money: Balyasny
Don't go into #finance just because you want to make money, says #Balyasny Asset Management CIO Dmitry Balyasny, go into it because you have a passion for #i...
The Dark Side of Credit Card Rewards
Earn 75,000 bonus miles! Double cash back! Free flights! Discounts galore!The enticements for credit card rewards programs promise fantasies. And for the pri...
Should Your Startup Bootstrap or Raise Venture Capital?
Within the world of startups, you'll find lots of discourse online about the experiences of founders bootstrapping their startup versus the founders who have...
(11) The Future of Capitalism: From PROFIT to PURPOSE
Reforming, not eliminating, capitalism is vital for our future. Learn about the power of leadership in restoring faith in the system, building trust up and d...
Riddhima Yadav: The purity test that's killing clean energy
Why is it taking so long to finance the climate transition? After years working with the world's largest wealth funds and banks, finance innovator Riddhima Yadav has seen the same pattern: the climate…
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New to Finance? These articles make an excellent introduction.
What is green finance and why is it important?
If it’s marshalled in the right way, the global finance market could become a powerful force for sustainable development.
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How to Enjoy Life When Everything is More Expensive
How do you enjoy life when everything is more expensive? You don’t want to spend too much. But living without pleasure is also no good.
«It can be frustrating when we make plans and they don’t pan out because of external circumstances. But the frustration only doubles when you don’t accept the situation.»
How to Move Money in the 21st Century
“Financial operations” (FinOps) is an emerging software category with a massive opportunity to streamline, automate, and optimize how we move money, while giving the entire organization a real-time…
Trending
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Retailers in UK plan to cut staff hours and jobs amid rising employment costs
BRC survey finds finance bosses expect technology to improve productivity, with 69% pessimistic about the economy
Women in tech and finance at higher risk from AI job losses, report says
‘Mid-career’ females also being sidelined by rigid hiring processes, says City of London Corporation
Short Articles
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Is Talking to ChatGPT About Finance Ever a Good Idea? Here's My Investigation
Is using ChatGPT or any other chatbot a good idea when it comes to learning about finance? Here's what ChatGPT itself thinks about it.
Get Used to Losing Money When Investing
Is it the duty of the investor to lose money from time to time? If you want to build your nest egg to beat inflation, the answer is yes.
20 new tech unicorns were minted in 2025 so far
Despite a still tight venture capital market, new unicorns are still being created every month. Using data from Crunchbase and PitchBook, TechCrunch
Why Some Countries Are Happier Than Their Wealth Suggests
Wealth alone does not determine how happy a nation is. Certain low-income countries are remarkably efficient at generating happiness.
Why Do We Avoid The Things That Matter Most? Greg McKeown And An “Essentialist” Approach To Personal…
What is "inverse prioritization" and how do we counter the forces that seek to undermine our best intentions—personally and financially?
«inverse prioritization happens because of the emotional weight of our most important tasks»
Long Articles
These are some of the most-read long-form articles in Finance.
Artificial intelligence isn’t a good argument for basic income
One of the largest-ever studies on basic income in the US suggests it can benefit people with low incomes, even if AI doesn’t steal anyone's job.
«Though 1,000 people obviously made a variety of choices over the course of three years, the dominant trade was clearly toward more leisure time.»
What Islamic Finance Can Teach the World ❧ Current Affairs
One needn’t be a devout Muslim, or a religious believer of any kind, to find value in the idea there is a higher good than profit, and there is a higher authority than the will of bankers and…
10 Hidden Ways to Buy Properties with Huge “Upside”
If you don’t want to make money in real estate, skip this episode. If you hate the idea of having hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars in equity...
What If Money Expired?
A long-forgotten German economist argued that society and the economy would be better off if money was a perishable good. Was he an anarchist crank or the prophet of a better world?
«Money is abstract, absurd. It’s a belief system, a language, a social contract. Money is trust. But the rules aren’t fixed in stone.”»
The Other Side of Money: On the Stories We Tell about Wealth, Poverty, and Inequality
1. Once upon a time, around 2014, I began writing What’s Mine. It will be a novel about someone whose home gets invaded by this annoying person, I wrote to my agent. It turns out this annoying pers…
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