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Private Equity Puts Debt Everywhere

Also an X poll, debanking, more QXO and personalized pricing.

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Tesla CEO Defends Massive Pay In Delaware Court

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Don’t Loot the Scams

Thomas Braziel, M&A fee certainty, Alexa economics and hedge-fund vibes.

CME Group Headquarters Ahead Of Earnings Figures

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Bad Trades Are Also Valuable

FX backrunning, crypto interns, Ray Dalio’s non-compete, Ozempic and HBS.

FTC Non-Compete Ban Slammed By Business Groups As Unworkable

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Maybe Good Governance Is Bad

Also block trades, Brookfield stock ownership, Helion Energy, a stegosaurus and a night at the Spaniard.

Truth Social As Trump's Social Media Company Approved To Go Public

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Trump Media Has Some Stock to Sell

Also single-private-stock funds, Carlos Watson and money buying happiness.

Pershing Square Capital Management LP Chief Executive Officer Bill Ackman Interview

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Bill Ackman Can Tweet His New Fund

Also insurers buy mortgages, Deutsche Bank prefers larger fees and an LLM learns Excel.

The Allen & Co. Media And Technology Conference

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OpenAI Might Have Lucrative NDAs

Also sports gambling limits, Stripe, stablecoins and memecoins.

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Banks Can Outsource Their Trades

Citadel Securities, Bill Hwang, Bill Ackman’s greenshoe, the Purdue Pharma bankruptcy and life on Mars.

One of Europe’s Hottest Cities Seville Rediscovers an Old Cooling Technique

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Jefferies Funded Some Fake Water

Also Aspiration tree planting, OpenAI board seats and popping balance balls.

Ex-Celsius CEO Alex Mashinsky Attends Court

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Celsius Wants Some Money Back

Also Bobby Jain, Bill Ackman, Vlad Artamonov and frozen heads.

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Paramount Did Its Deal

Also empty voting, private credit, accredited investors and algorithmic FX.

SEC Probing Boeing's Safety Claims After Panel Blew Off Plane

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It’s Hard to Make Rules Now

Also Paramount is back, judicial conflicts of interest, more Canna Global, more authorized share drama and more mouse jiggling.

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People Dislike Activist Short Selling

Hindenburg, Bridgewater, $25 million law firm partners, bonds pay interest and manure securitization.

Harvest At The Demecan GmbH Medicinal Cannabis Grow Rooms

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Canna SPAC Has Phantom Stock

SPACs, 24-hour trading, Roaring Kitty is a 13G filer, you can’t be fired for doing crime at work and Chevron is overruled.

Supreme Court Poised To Allow Emergency Abortions In Idaho

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Purdue’s Bankruptcy Went Too Far

Opioids, SEC ALJs, buffer ETFs, cattle ABS and more Head of Macro.

Inside The Berkshire Hathaway Annual General Meeting

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Berkshire Was Too Cheap, Then Too Pricey

Market orders, Archegos’s final hours, private equity recruiting and the ‘Head of Macro’ guy.

Highest Inflation in America Is Punishing a Texas Town and Its Residents

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MMTLP Tried Squeezing the Shorts

Also Hunterbrook, Hess/Goldman and corporate country music.

New York Stock Exchange As US Stock Futures Drop As Jobs Growth Blows Past Estimates

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Boomer Candy Business Is Booming

Buffer funds, CEO school, FTX claims, AMC debt and AI VCs.

Virgin Orbit Holdings Inc. LauncherOne Rocket And SpacePort Preview

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Virgin Orbit Had a Fake Takeover

Also sorting AI researchers, training portfolio managers, and nonbanks vs. banks.

Offshore Drilling Slowly Emerging From Downturn

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Trafigura Bought Oil Wrong

Market manipulation, bad NDAs, Nvidia securities fraud lawsuit, Point72 AI fund, middle market investment banking and the Wu-Tang Clan.

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