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Transcript: Brian Venturo on the Battle for Semiconductors
And price definitely changes with where crypto is, right?They know that they have a limited supply. It’s virtually unlimited demand.…
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On the Jersey Shore, Surf’s Up — Way Up
(Bloomberg Opinion) — In New Jersey’s beach towns, there are two sets of data that always seem to be rising:…
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Signal Jabs at Facebook and Navigates Growing Pains as Popularity Surges
Current and former staffers, who asked not to be identified either because of concerns of breaching confidentiality agreements or professional…
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What Happened When Evanston Became America’s First City to Promise Reparations
(Bloomberg Businessweek) — Lucious Sutton disconnected the water line, the gas line, and the sewer line for the home he’d…
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Biden to Boast of Economic Rebound That GOP Says He Imperils
(Bloomberg) — President Joe Biden will try to bolster his case for his massive spending proposals on Thursday, arguing his…
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Fidelity in Talks to Back Relativity Space at $4.1 Billion Value
(Bloomberg) — Relativity Space Inc., a maker of 3D-printed rockets, is in talks to raise $600 million in a funding…
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Cathie Wood’s Bad Spring Is Only a Blip When the Future Is So Magnificent
(Bloomberg Businessweek) — In the weirdest year of our lives, the rise of Cathie Wood is hardly the weirdest thing…
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America’s Economic Recovery Isn’t Roaring for Everyone
After more than a year of pandemic, the U.S. economy is roaring back and is now expected to grow by…
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Bayer Request to Settle Future Roundup Claims Is Denied by Judge
(Bloomberg) — Bayer AG’s proposal to pay as much as $2 billion to resolve future claims that its Roundup weed…
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IBM Turnabout Adds Pressure to Keep Corporate Diversity Promises
(Bloomberg) — The year 2021 is shaping up to set records for diversity proposals at U.S. company annual meetings. Nine out…
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Transcript: Daniela Gabor on the Drawbacks of the ESG Boom
(Bloomberg) — It’s no secret that ESG investing has become a big business with tons of money flowing into businesses…
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Biden to Direct $1 Billion for Severe Weather Preparedness
(Bloomberg) — President Joe Biden plans to announce on Monday a doubling of federal spending on preparations for severe weather…
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Time to Invest? Five Important, Undervalued Watches from the ’80s
(Bloomberg) — Originally published by Paul Boutros on Hodinkee. As someone who both grew up during the 1980s and fell in love…
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Ferrari Pitches $500,000 Hybrid Supercar as a Bargain for Daily Driving
(Bloomberg) — The main thing Ferrari will tell you about the 2021 Ferrari SF90 Stradale is how much of a…
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Planes Rerouted, Bonds Drop After Airport Arrest: Belarus Update
(Bloomberg) — Flights are being re-directed to avoid Belarusian airspace after the government in Minsk forced a Ryanair Holdings Plc…
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Recycling Isn’t Dead. It’s Booming.
(Bloomberg Opinion) — Recycling is “dead,” say the obituaries. And if it’s not dead it’s “broken,” “not working,” “in the bin,” “failing,” a “charade,” “a lie,” and…
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Grill Makers Are Ready for a Busy Summer of Maskless Backyard BBQs
(Bloomberg) — Americans caught the grilling industry by surprise during the first pandemic summer. With interest in barbecuing poised to…
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The Conflict in Gaza is Over. What’s Next?
(Bloomberg) — Israel and the Palestinian Hamas militant group that runs the Gaza Strip have ceased fire after 11 days…
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Key Areas Traders Watch Out for as Taiwan Lockdown Risk Looms
(Bloomberg) — Taiwan’s collapse from one of the world’s most successful Covid-19 containment stories rattled investors last week. Now, as…
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More and More `Normies’ of Finance Are Getting ETH-Pilled
As a “normie” in the traditional finance world, I’m trying to remain intellectually open to the crypto space. There are…
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NextEra Is Blocking a Major New Clean Power Transmission Project
(Bloomberg) — A major new transmission line intended to pipe carbon-free hydropower from Canada into the U.S. Northeast has met…
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Ford Hopes New Electric F-150 Pickup Will Boost EV Street Cred
(Bloomberg) — Linda Zhang, chief engineer of Ford Motor Co.’s new electric F-150 pickup, steers a 3-ton rig onto a…
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Bayer-Roundup Judge Questions Future Claims Settlement Plan
(Bloomberg) — Bayer AG faced probing questions from a judge over its plan to pay as much as $2 billion…
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Ex-Tencent Veteran Raises $120 Million Fund to Bet on Next Zoom
(Bloomberg) — China’s technology sector has had breakout successes in e-commerce, social media and smartphones. Venture capitalist Peter Cheng is…
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Waymo Eyes Raising Up to $4 Billion as Leaders’ Exits Sow Doubts
(Bloomberg) — Waymo is talking to outside investors about raising as much as $4 billion in additional capital to fuel…
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Hedge Fund Picks at Sohn 2020 Show Perils of Pandemic Investing
(Bloomberg) — To say investing is tricky during the pandemic would be an understatement. And so it has proved for…
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U.S. Federal Reserve Meeting Minutes: April 28 (Text)
(Bloomberg) — Following are the minutes of the Federal Reserve‘s Open Market Committee meeting on April 28: A joint meeting…
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The World Economy Is Suddenly Running Low on Everything
(Bloomberg) — A year ago, as the pandemic ravaged country after country and economies shuddered, consumers were the ones panic-buying. Today,…
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So You’ve Decided on a Trip to Europe. Now What?
(Bloomberg Opinion) — The vaccine rollout is accelerating on both sides of the Atlantic and the European Union is trying to reopen its borders…
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Why Lumber Trader Stinson Dean Says the Great Short Squeeze Is Over
(Bloomberg) — In case you’ve missed it, lumber has been on a five-day losing streak. After an incredible run that’s…
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Colleges Bond Deals Betting on Resurrection of Campus Dorm Life
(Bloomberg) — Colleges all across America are betting big on the resurrection of American campus life. So are bondholders. After…
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Tesla China Sales Falter With Exports Robust on Demand in Europe
(Bloomberg) — Tesla Inc. sales in China dropped last month, a worrying trend amid stepped up criticism of the U.S.…
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Every Discussion of the Economy Keeps Coming Back to the Same Keynes Quote
And I think I can say that we’re more conservative than others because of what we went through in 2006,…
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Google’s Main Business Could Use Some Moonshots
(Bloomberg Opinion) — When Google renamed itself Alphabet Inc. in 2015, co-founder Larry Page revealed that one of the new…
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Jeff Bezos’s New Superyacht Heralds Roaring Market for Big Boats
(Bloomberg) — Even in the ostentatious world of superyachts, project Y721 stands out. When completed, it will be 127 meters…
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Biden Tax-Hike Exemption for Farms Pushed by Rural Democrats
(Bloomberg) — House Democrats representing key rural swing districts laid down a marker on President Joe Biden’s proposed tax increases,…
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The Chinese Government Needs to Become a Clean Energy Supermajor
(Bloomberg) — China is turning to its state-owned coal power companies to helm the next stage of the country’s renewables…
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What Ever Happened to Toms Shoes?
(Bloomberg) — Toms, the once-high-flying shoe brand, is itching for a comeback. It starts with expanding beyond the millennials who…
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NYC Tops Weekly Dose Goal; U.K. Set for Reopening: Virus Update
(Bloomberg) — New York’s vaccination program picked up speed last week, with the most populous U.S. city reporting a record…
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Why Biden’s Infrastructure Plan Is a Green Jobs Plan
“Once you put capital money to work, jobs are created.” These are not the words of President Joe Biden, announcing…
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Big Spending Makes Financial Markets Matter Less
(Bloomberg Opinion) — A lesson learned after the 2008 financial crisis was that financial market shocks can turn into real…
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Hong Kong Tycoons Emerge as Big Losers From Xi’s Election Revamp
(Bloomberg) — When China regained control of Hong Kong more than two decades ago, the Communist Party entrusted the city’s…
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How to Take Thousands of Big Steel Boxes Off a Ship in the Suez
(Bloomberg) — With every passing day it’s getting more likely that thousands of 40-foot boxes on board the ship blocking…
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Clorox Bets Big on Not Going Back to Normal
(Bloomberg) — Linda Rendle, the CEO of Clorox, knows what the doubters are saying. That the pandemic moment is fading.…
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The Pandemic Is Creating a ‘Postwar Boom’ for Luxury Carmakers
(Bloomberg) — Famously reticent to disclose how many cars they sell or at what amount of profit, luxury automakers are finding it…
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These Electric Motorcycles Are Set to Take Charge in 2021
(Bloomberg) — The Volcon Grunt isn’t your typical motorcycle. It has cartoonishly blown-up rubber tires and a single cyclops-like LED…
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The Singapore of the Future Is Small and Rich
(Bloomberg Opinion) — In a government poster from the early 1970s, a young Singaporean mother stands in a laundry-strewn apartment…
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Unions Are Back in Favor. They Need to Seize the Moment.
(Bloomberg Opinion) — Labor is having a moment the likes of which it hasn’t experienced in decades. In Joe Biden,…
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FedEx’s Fred Smith Can Go Out on a High Note
(Bloomberg Opinion) — If FedEx Corp. founder Fred Smith is looking to retire on a high note, this might be…
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How to Judge Biden’s Record on Climate Change
Levels of CO₂ in the atmosphere were higher in 2020 than in any year in human history. They will be…
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