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Americans have spent down about 35% of the extra savings they accumulated during the pandemic as of mid-January, according to Goldman Sachs. By the end of the year, the company forecasts that they will have exhausted roughly 65% of that money.
National Enquirer, the scandal-plagued tabloid that facilitated a hush-money scheme involving former President Trump, to be sold to a group that includes a former MoviePass executive who has been charged in a securities fraud case.
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The "social contagion" theory of tech layoffs seems like the most compelling to me.
All of these companies have some cohort of workers who they perceive to be not pulling their weight/getting paid too much.
Occasionally the social window opens up, where layoffs are deemed ok.
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$GS: "....the companies conducting layoffs are not representative of the broader economy and that many of the recent layoff announcements do not necessarily signal a weaker demand picture that might have wider implications"
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“This is not a drill." Beyoncé’s biggest fans are pulling out all the stops to secure tickets to the "Renaissance" tour wsj.com/articles/beyon with
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Today's a-hed: How the BeyHive is strategizing to get tickets so they avoid what happened to Swifties - w/
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Hedge fund manager Steve Eisman famously bet big against subprime, as documented in The Big Short.
and I speak with him about the ‘paradigm shift’ he sees unfolding in markets right now.
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#NEW Disney+ dropped yet another episode of The Simpsons in Hong Kong, the second time it did so under the city’s national security law
The fresh episode (S34E2) made reference to “forced labour camps where children make smartphones” when describing China
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Tom Brady announced his retirement for good in an emotional video filmed on a sandy beach. Now, jars of beach sand said to be from the exact spot he filmed his retirement video are being auctioned online, with bidding for one nearly reaching six figures.
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The labor market is 🔥. (And, yes, that's being read as bad news for financial markets.)
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U.S. hiring accelerated sharply to 517,000 jobs in January and the unemployment fell to 3.4%, the lowest rate in more than 53 years
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He never ceases to amaze....
"But now James Dolan has found a way to shock even those New Yorkers who have been otherwise hardened to his antics."
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“no one wants to work anymore”
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Nearly 1,000 children separated from their parents at the U.S. border under the Trump administration’s zero-tolerance policy on illegal immigration haven’t been reunited, federal data shows.
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Well, how about that...
The Nasdaq Comp is off to its best start to a year since 1975
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WATCH: Former FTX US President Brett Harrison talks with Bloomberg’s in New York, marking his first interview since the crypto exchange's collapse last year.
More on his next venture here: trib.al/NVTgCzX
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Watch hog journalism...
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1 out of his last 6?? How has he not been fired?
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Finally some accountability
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This is so great...
Tom Brady Retires: The Revised Edition
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Punxsutawney Phil, the most famous groundhog in the U.S., saw his shadow on Thursday, forecasting six more weeks of winter. Here's how often his predictions tend to be right.
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Groundhog Day is Thursday. It's also the 30th anniversary of the 1993 comedy starring Bill Murray, who plays Phil Connors, a cynical TV weatherman who travels to Punxsutawney to cover the annual groundhog event.
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It’s official: Beyoncé is going back on tour. The singer revealed dates for her “Renaissance” world tour, her first solo tour since 2016. Ticketmaster, months after the Taylor Swift ticket debacle, is already bracing for high demand.
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It snowed in NYC this morning....finally.
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No snow in NYC!
By @AlyssaLukpat
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Tom Brady, the most accomplished player in NFL history, said he was retiring “for good,” a year after briefly calling it quits and then coming back to play at 45 years old.
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Got to chill with some chicks for a story about how people are taking record-high egg prices into their own hands by starting their own flocks 🐤🥚
The only problem: Even with egg prices up 60%, the DIY versions are still pricier than store bought
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Step 1. Buy chicken to save on eggs. Step 2. Spend thousands on chicken. Step 3. Realize step 1 was a bad plan. By
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The chief executive who quoted Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in her layoff email apologized to her staff. “There are a number of things I would do differently if I could,” she said, adding her email was "inappropriate and insensitive.”
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Bitcoin has been the best or worst performing asset every year since 2014, while it's still very early, 2023 is no different: {ECAN<Go>}
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More than 1,600 flights were canceled in the U.S. as winter storms and freezing rain swept across the southern states
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Kyle Smaine, a former world champion skier, was one of two people who died in an avalanche in Japan. He was thrown 50 meters, was buried in the snow and died, according to a photographer who accompanied him on the trip. He was 31.
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Some Netflix users have long-standing password sharing arrangements with family and friends. Others have logged in on hotel, dorm and car screens and unknowingly allowed strangers to mooch off of their subscriptions. Sharing of all kinds is about to change
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for a cool $13,000+, you too could have an amazing vacation to the UAE with camel rides, safaris and luxury hotels !! (beyoncé not included) ... I wrote about why everyone was in Dubai last weekend:
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He’s constantly trailed by a cloud of reporters and has been the butt of comedy sketches on late-night shows.
None of it appears to deter him.
“It’s great, I love it,” Santos said of his new job
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