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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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Kevin T. Dugan

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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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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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 2

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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 5

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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 2

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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 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 1

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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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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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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...

06.09.2024 50

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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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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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The Right-Wing Crusade Against DEI Isn’t Actually 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 20

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Everything We Know About the Arrest of Telegram’s Founder

On Saturday night, French police arrested Pavel Durov, the CEO of the encrypted chat program Telegram, which has more than 900 million users...

27.08.2024 10

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Has Disney Figured Out How to Never Get Sued Again?

In October, Kanokporn “Amy” Tangsuan, a Long Island family-medicine doctor who worked at NYU Langone, went to Disney World in Florida with her...

20.08.2024 1

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Kathy Hochul’s ‘Big’ Plan to Ban Phones in Schools

David Rounds had dismissed his class when he heard a student shouting in the hallway. “What the hell did you do that for?” the kid said. It was...

19.08.2024 7

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Traders Are Having a Hard Time Staying Bullish on Trump Media

Last Friday, shortly after markets closed on Wall Street’s most volatile week in years, Trump Media & Technology Group quietly announced it had lost...

13.08.2024 2

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The Wall Street Journal Is Winning the Media Apocalypse

The so-called media apocalypse that started off 2024 was, economically speaking, not an event that lived up to its biblical proportions. Yes,...

11.08.2024 3

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5 Reasons Airbnb Is Having a Terrible Summer

This summer has been an absolute bonanza for travel. At the Jersey Shore, crowds have gotten so large that beaches had to shut down. Yellowstone...

08.08.2024 1

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How Bill Ackman’s $25 Billion IPO Plan Went Bust (at Least for Now)

On Wednesday, Bill Ackman, the billionaire investor, pulled the plug on a high-profile deal that was, at one time, supposed to be a $25 billion...

02.08.2024 3

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How Bill Ackman’s $25 Billion IPO Plan Went Bust

On Wednesday, Bill Ackman, the billionaire investor, pulled the plug on a high-profile deal that was, at one time, supposed to be a $25 billion...

02.08.2024 3

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Wall Street’s $2 Trillion AI Reckoning

On July 16, the S&P 500 index, one of the most widely cited benchmarks in American capitalism, reached its highest-ever market value: $47 trillion....

01.08.2024 10

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Is Kamala Harris Really Warming Up to Crypto?

In March, I had a call with an influential former regulator in Washington, D.C., about the huge influx of crypto money that was already pouring in...

31.07.2024 2

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