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The Price Is Right

July 12, 2023 | Khan failed this week in her latest effort to block the big-tech deal between Microsoft and video game publisher Activision Blizzard. A federal judge denied her agency’s bid to block Microsoft’s deal, only months after the FTC failed to thwart a deal between Meta Platforms’ purchase of a virtual reality gaming company.

Prime Day

July 11, 2023 | Sam Altman, the genius behind OpenAI’s ChatGPT, is backing another big idea: nuclear energy.

Chick-fil-A

July 09, 2023 | Chick-fil-A is closed on Sundays, forgoing billions in sales. Yet the company has become wildly popular over the past couple of decades. Today, we'll discuss the incredible story of Chick-fil-A.

Fast-Growing Economy

July 08, 2023 | India is one of the world's fastest-growing economies. Its progress marks a significant shift in the global order, outpacing China in various aspects. The country is on track to become the most populous globally, with an estimated population of 1.42 billion in 2023.

Space Monopoly

July 07, 2023 | From Balloongate to semiconductor sanctions, 2023 hasn’t been a good year for relations between the U.S. and China. That has put an even bigger spotlight on U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen’s visit this week to China, which markets watched keenly for insights into how the two countries might interact going forward.

“Twitter Killer”

July 06, 2023 | Instagram, owned by Meta, has introduced Threads, a new app aimed at competing with Twitter. This launch poses the most significant challenge to Elon Musk's struggling social media platform to date, gathering over 10 million sign-ups in the first seven hours and over 30 million after the first day.

Heat Waves

July 05, 2023 | The U.S. labor market is showing surprising strength, despite the Federal Reserve’s aggressive interest-rate campaign. While tech layoffs have headlined, they simply don’t tell the whole labor market story.

Fireworks

July 03, 2023 | Work-from-home has drastically changed office (and some financial) dynamics forever. One sliver of financial-related crime that might have benefited: insider trading.

Margin Compression

April 12, 2024 | Welcome to earnings season, folks. Per usual, the big banks kicked off the onslaught of Q1 corporate earnings reports that will come in the next few weeks. How’d they do?

No Rate Cuts?

April 11, 2024 | The unthinkable is now thinkable. That’s the prospect of no rate cuts this year. Predicting no cuts just a few months ago would’ve left you all alone on Wall Street, excluded from the cool kids’ table, which was betting on at least three rate reductions this year.

VC’s Cultural Moment

April 10, 2024 | If you’re an individual investor, you probably don’t have access to investing in hot startups. In recent years, a trendy business model in finance has been trying to change that, “democratizing” access to more types of companies, not just those trading on stock exchanges.

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