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Meet Omeed Malik, Don Jr.’s New Boss

Hours after ringing the closing bell at the New York Stock Exchange on a Monday last December, Omeed Malik hosted a party at the Core Club in...

22.11.2024 9

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Meet Don Jr.’s New Boss

Hours after ringing the closing bell at the New York Stock Exchange on a Monday last December, Omeed Malik hosted a party at the Core Club in...

22.11.2024 10

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Why Is Trump Media’s Stock Price Falling?

Ever since Trump Media & Technology Group went public earlier this year, the conversation around it has mostly focused on how big of a joke it is....

15.11.2024 10

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If Trump Won So Big, Why Is His Media’s Stock Cratering?

Ever since Trump Media & Technology Group went public earlier this year, the conversation around it has mostly focused on how big of a joke it is....

14.11.2024 8

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Welcome to the Donald Trump Era of Crypto

On Monday morning, the research firm Bernstein came out with some advice about crypto for its Wall Street clients: “Buy everything you can.” Ever...

12.11.2024 30

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Welcome to the Donald Trump Era of Crypto

On Monday morning, the research firm Bernstein came out with some advice about crypto for its Wall Street clients: “Buy everything you can.” Ever...

12.11.2024 60

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Welcome to the Donald Trump Era of Crypto

On Monday morning, the research firm Bernstein came out with some advice about crypto for its Wall Street clients: “Buy everything you can.” Ever...

12.11.2024 3

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Everything Wall Street Is Buying After Trump’s Historic Win

The Wall Street buying spree has begun. At 9:30 a.m., when markets opened in New York, brokers were scrambling to fill orders as fast as possible....

06.11.2024 9

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Wall Street No Longer Looks Confident About a Trump Win

With more than 24 hours to go before the last votes are counted on Election Day, Wall Street’s already booking its own wins. In the final days of...

05.11.2024 10

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Wall Street No Longer Looks Confident About a Trump Win

With more than 24 hours to go before the last votes are counted on Election Day, Wall Street’s already booking its own wins. In the final days of...

05.11.2024 10

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Wall Street’s Big Bet on a Trump Win

On October 29, a week before the election, a California hedge-fund manager was letting me in on some of the trades he’s made ahead of the event. On...

01.11.2024 10

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Wall Street’s Big Bet on a Trump Win

On October 29, a week before the election, a California hedge-fund manager was letting me in on some of the trades he’s made ahead of the event. On...

01.11.2024 10

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What Jeff Bezos Stands to Gain on Washington Post’s Losses

When Jeff Bezos published an op-ed on Monday defending his decision to kill the Washington Post’s endorsement of Kamala Harris, he included near...

31.10.2024 8

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What Blue Origin Stands to Gain After Jeff Bezos Muzzled the Washington Post

When Jeff Bezos published an op-ed on Monday defending his decision to kill the Washington Post’s endorsement of Kamala Harris, he included near...

30.10.2024 2

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Alarms Are Sounding in the Bond Markets Ahead of the Election

Worrying about debt is, in a very real way, worrying about power. Ancient Rome was weakened by its debts, as was the Soviet Union. In the case of...

28.10.2024 3

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FTC’s Popular ‘Click-to-Cancel’ Rule Is Already in Danger

Remember MoviePass? Ten bucks a month for an unlimited number of movies in the theater: What a wild idea. It was one of Silicon Valley’s most naïve...

23.10.2024 9

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FTC’s Popular ‘Click-to-Cancel’ Rule Is Already in Danger

Remember MoviePass? Ten bucks a month for an unlimited number of movies in the theater: What a wild idea. It was one of Silicon Valley’s most naïve...

23.10.2024 20

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4 Theories Why Trump Is Winning in the Betting Markets

Last month, when a Washington, D.C., appeals court opened the door to legal election betting in the U.S. for the first time in a century, the...

19.10.2024 8

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4 Theories Why Trump Is Winning Big in the Betting Markets

Last month, when a Washington, D.C., appeals court opened the door to legal election betting in the U.S. for the first time in a century, the...

18.10.2024 3

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Trump’s Scammy Crypto Company Is Already a Disaster

It has hardly been a month since presidential candidate Donald Trump started hawking digital tokens in something called World Liberty Financial, a...

17.10.2024 10

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Trump’s Scammy Crypto Company Is Already a Disaster

It has hardly been a month since presidential candidate Donald Trump started hawking digital tokens in something called World Liberty Financial, a...

16.10.2024 4

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Trump Wants to Make America Inflationary Again

On Friday, with 24 days until the election, the internet bequeathed us the Donald Trump Economic Policy Generator. “Today, while on the Talk Tuah...

12.10.2024 20

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Trump Wants to Make America Inflationary Again

On Friday, with 24 days until the election, the internet bequeathed us the Donald Trump Economic Policy Generator. “Today, while on the Talk Tuah...

12.10.2024 30

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Elon Musk’s Cybercab Is a Money-Burning Folly

On Thursday, Elon Musk will announce a project he’s been promising for nearly a decade: a self-driving, on-demand electric vehicle he calls the...

10.10.2024 20

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Elon Musk’s Cybercab Is a Money-Burning Folly

On Thursday, Elon Musk will announce a project he’s been promising for nearly a decade: a self-driving, on-demand electric vehicle he calls the...

10.10.2024 4

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A Quest to Unmask Bitcoin Inventor Satoshi Nakamoto Finds a Man Named Peter Todd

During the last 15 years, from the time Bitcoin has gone from a message-board curiosity to a fraud-adjacent currency a Wall Street goldmine, the...

09.10.2024 3

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Trump Media Has Major New Problems

Trump Media & Technology Company has an HR problem. The parent company of X knockoff Truth Social, which is majority owned by the former president,...

04.10.2024 1

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Trump Media Has Major New Problems

Trump Media & Technology Company has an HR problem. The parent company of X knockoff Truth Social, which is majority owned by the former president,...

04.10.2024 10

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Alex Spiro Objects!

On Wednesday morning, the attorney Alex Spiro followed his client, Mayor Eric Adams, into the lobby-level courtroom of Manhattan federal Judge Dale...

03.10.2024 2

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Alex Spiro Objects!

On Wednesday morning, the attorney Alex Spiro followed his client, Mayor Eric Adams, into the lobby-level courtroom of Manhattan federal Judge Dale...

03.10.2024 2

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Betting on Trump or Harris to Win Is Now Legal in the U.S.

On Wednesday, a Washington, D.C., court ruled that betting markets were legal in the U.S. — the first time in about a century that the practice was...

02.10.2024 5

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Caroline Ellison’s Redemption Arc

On Tuesday afternoon, Judge Lewis Kaplan will sentence Caroline Ellison in the same courtroom where, hardly six months earlier, he sent Sam...

24.09.2024 4

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Caroline Ellison’s Redemption Arc

On Tuesday afternoon, Judge Lewis Kaplan will sentence Caroline Ellison in the same courtroom where, hardly six months earlier, he sent Sam...

24.09.2024 3

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How Jerome Powell Got The Fed To A Big Half-Point Cut

Hours before the Federal Reserve announced its interest-rates cuts on Wednesday, nobody knew exactly what was coming. Would Fed chair Jerome Powell...

19.09.2024 2

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What Is Trump Even Doing With His New Crypto Company?

Lately, convicted fraudster Donald Trump has really gotten into crypto, which he has favorably dubbed as “crazy new currencies.” Over the past few...

18.09.2024 10

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What Is Trump Even Doing With His New Crypto Company?

Lately, convicted fraudster Donald Trump has really gotten into crypto, which he has favorably dubbed as “crazy new currencies.” Over the past few...

17.09.2024 4

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We Are About to Enter a New Era of Political Gambling

In June, Chief Justice John Roberts wrote an opinion that overhauled how a large segment of the federal government operates. The case, Loper Bright...

17.09.2024 3

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We Are About to Enter a New Era of Political Gambling

In June, Chief Justice John Roberts wrote an opinion that overhauled how a large segment of the federal government operates. The case, Loper Bright...

17.09.2024 2

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Trump’s Bad Debate Cost Him Nearly $500 Million

Ever since Trump Media & Technology Group, the memestock company that owns Donald Trump’s social-media network, started trading on NASDAQ earlier...

11.09.2024 7

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Caroline Ellison Is Finally Getting Sentenced Over FTX’s Collapse

Last year, during the sprawling criminal trial of Sam Bankman-Fried, the most important witness against the crypto fraud was his former girlfriend...

10.09.2024 2

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What Is Happening With the Parents of the Georgia School Shooter?

After a 14-year-old student opened fire on his schoolmates with an AR-15–style rifle in rural Georgia on September 4, reporters and investigators...

09.09.2024 2

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Brat Summer Healed the Economy

This was the summer that just about everything in the economy turned out to be all right, but it almost didn’t happen. Memorial Day weekend was a...

06.09.2024 2

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Brat Summer Healed the Economy

This was the summer that just about everything in the economy turned out to be all right, but it almost didn’t happen. Memorial Day weekend was a...

06.09.2024 2

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Trump Bombs His Big Speech Debuting Elon Musk’s Commission

This afternoon, Donald Trump gave a speech at the Economic Club of New York, which was purportedly going to reveal his big policy agenda for the...

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Trump Bombs His Big Economic Speech

This afternoon, Donald Trump gave a speech at the Economic Club of New York, which was purportedly going to reveal his big policy agenda for the...

05.09.2024 1

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Kamala Harris Is Not Here to Fix Income Inequality

The state of the U.S. economy, all $26 trillion or so of it, will be one of the keys to determining whether Kamala Harris or Donald Trump wins the...

05.09.2024 1

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Kamala Harris Is Not Here to Fix Income Inequality

The state of the U.S. economy, all $26 trillion or so of it, will be one of the keys to determining whether Kamala Harris or Donald Trump wins the...

05.09.2024 2

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Telegram Case May Move the Overton Window on Free Speech

Earlier this month, French authorities arrested Pavel Durov, the founder of Telegram, a chat app widely used around the world by nearly 1 billion...

02.09.2024 3

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Why the Telegram Prosecution May Move the Overton Window on Free Speech

Earlier this month, French authorities arrested Pavel Durov, the founder of Telegram, a chat app widely used around the world by nearly 1 billion...

31.08.2024 7

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The Robby Starbuck Attacks on DEI Aren’t Working

The backlash to corporate America’s embrace of diversity, equity, and inclusion policies didn’t take very long. Last year, Google and Meta set the...

29.08.2024 3

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