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July 18, 2019
Here’s Why Airline Safety Videos Have Gotten So Elaborate They used to have the drab feel of corporate instructional videos. But in recent years, airlines have sensed a branding opportunity.
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July 14, 2019
Is the New Bipartisan Consensus on Interest Rates an Illusion? Republicans and Democrats have found rare alignment on monetary policy. But will “the hack gap” reopen if a Democrat becomes president?
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July 11, 2019
It’s Time to Stop This Ridiculous Hotel Pricing Practice “Resort fees” and “destination fees” are used to mislead consumers about room rates. Washington, D.C., is suing to keep operators honest.
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July 8, 2019
There’s No Need for the Senate to Confirm Anyone to the Federal Reserve The best tool Congress has to protect the Fed from Trump is the one they have been using: Their authority to refuse to confirm his nominees.
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June 29, 2019
Democrats Should Fight Doctors and Hospitals, Not Insurers They’re ignoring the key element in our health care system that’s making it unaffordable: providers and the payments they require.
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June 29, 2019
Planet Fitness Celebrates Members Who Pay for Its Product But Don’t Use It There is an odd incentive if you own a gym: You need to find a way to attract customers who are not especially eager about your product.
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June 26, 2019
Instead of Juul, San Francisco Should Have Banned Cigarettes Or gotten ahead of the vaping more effectively by piloting an effective age-restriction regime.
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June 25, 2019
Stephen Moore’s New Crypto Start-up Is Dumb Even by Crypto Start-up Standards The conservative commentator and failed Fed nominee’s business partner describes the plan, such as it is.
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June 21, 2019
Here’s Who Trump Should Have Made Fed Chairman Neel Kashkari, like Trump, thinks the Fed should cut interest rates. The problem is that those beliefs stem from principle, not politics.
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June 17, 2019
The One Weird Trick for Leaving the Euro That Shows Why Countries Can’t Leave It The Italian government has floated the idea of a new national quasi-currency. But it’s not the answer to the country’s financial problems.
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June 13, 2019
America’s Eighth-Largest Bank Will Have a Stupid Name: ‘Truist’ I almost feel bad making fun of it. But I do think they are making a business mistake.
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June 12, 2019
Kudos to the States Suing to Block Sprint/T-Mobile Merger As the state attorneys general suing on antitrust grounds know, competition among four national cellular providers serves Americans well.
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June 9, 2019
SoulCycle Has Found a Brilliant Way to Monetize Loyalty Customers scramble to reserve the best bikes at the most timely classes, so the company will start acting more like an airline.
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June 7, 2019
Today, Bad News Is Good News for Stocks The jobs numbers were dismal — but the market seems optimistic that Trump might get that rate cut he’s been asking for.
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June 4, 2019
Trump Can Only Move Interest Rates by Hurting the Economy If he pushes stock prices down enough by starting trade wars, he knows he might get the Fed to act.
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June 4, 2019
Spec Mansions for Billionaires Is Not As Good a Business As It Seemed Like About 50 such houses are currently for sale in L.A., and there isn’t enough dumb money around to buy them all.
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May 29, 2019
The Trade War Is Getting Big Enough to Hurt the Economy The stock and bond markets are saying there might be a real problem.
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May 21, 2019
Uber’s Irrational Pricing Is a Problem for Policy-makers How do you incentivize a company that seems hell-bent on generating massive losses?
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May 17, 2019
Trump Is Adjusting His Trade Strategy to Be More Realistic And this looks like a nod at something Trump hates: multilateralism.
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May 17, 2019
The Banks That Ran Uber’s IPO Feared This Would Happen The stock tumbled in its first few days on the market. But did the banks make it worse?
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May 15, 2019
Trump’s Failure to Control the Fed Is a Huge Problem for His Trade Policy Even though the economy is good, Trump still thinks trade deficits are bad. But the tools he hopes to use to fight them aren’t going to work.
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May 13, 2019
Trump’s Tariffs Only Work If Americans Pay Them This fact is inseparable from the president’s eagerness to impose them.
Here’s Why Airplane Boarding Got So Ridiculous Airlines have increasingly settled on a boarding order driven by social stratification.
There Is No Way Donald Trump Actually Lost $1.17 Billion The lesson of Trump’s massive reported losses from 1985 to 1994 is not that he was a comically bad businessman, but that he was comically undertaxed.
Trump Faces Same China Dilemma As Ever: He Loves Tariffs, Investors Hate Them If he wants China to take his trade threats seriously, he’s got to be ready to accept a big drop in the Dow.
Donald Trump Has Failed to Take Control of the Federal Reserve Not that he hasn’t tried. But Stephen Moore’s withdrawal just highlights the Fed’s ongoing independence.
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Apr. 26, 2019
The New GDP Report Shows the Economy Is Neither Heating Nor Cooling The economy is likely to remain good enough for the president to brag about it through the 2020 election. But not great.
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Apr. 26, 2019
Uber’s Plan to Lose Money on Every Ride and Make It Up in Volume, Annotated The ride-sharing company has laid out a vision for profitability. It is not compelling.
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Apr. 24, 2019
I Cut the Cord, But Not to Save Money. TV on the Internet Is Just Better Now. TV through the internet now provides a better user experience than traditional cable.
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Apr. 19, 2019
Good News: A Recession Looks Less Likely Now After some scary data in recent months, the economy seems to be humming along nicely again.
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Apr. 17, 2019
Why Starbucks Is Changing Its Reward Program, Again That free triple venti hazelnut soy latte with whipped cream just got a little tougher to earn.
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Apr. 16, 2019
I Am Now a Seat Recline Centrist Man, a lot of you have asked me about Delta’s announcement that they are reducing the amount that economy-class seats can recline.
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Apr. 11, 2019
Everyone Is Right About Starbucks Just because somebody is out there giving advice that’s bad for you , that doesn’t mean they’re giving bad advice.
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Apr. 5, 2019
Why Should Lyft Be a Public Company? The company’s path to profitability is still fuzzy at best, and it has no shortage of private funding options.
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Mar. 26, 2019
Recession Worries Move to DEFCON 3 But are bond markets signaling a flagging economy — or simply calculating the effects of Trump’s pressure campaign on the Federal Reserve?
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Mar. 21, 2019
Alex Gibney on Why Elizabeth Holmes Would Have Believed Her Own Lies “There was a lot of cognitive dissonance going on. I think she knew that the machine had problems. But there was a kind of willful denial.”
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Mar. 4, 2019
The Amazon Deal Implosion Will Make It Hard to Do the Next Deal. Good. That will likely save New York taxpayers money and promote a healthy separation between the public and private sectors.
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Feb. 28, 2019
What’s Wrong at Kraft? There Are Two Theories, Both Bad for Warren Buffett. Maybe he’s mismanaged the company — or maybe he just paid way too much for it in the first place.
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Feb. 28, 2019
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Feb. 22, 2019
What New York Did and Didn’t Learn From the Failed Amazon-Queens Deal Why politicians spoiling for a fight with Jeff Bezos were disappointed.
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Feb. 21, 2019
What Killed the Biggest Passenger Plane Ever Flown? And why the Airbus A380 could be revived in the future.
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Feb. 15, 2019
Don’t Worry About a Recession. Yet. New retail data shows a slowdown by consumers. But how does that square with red-hot job numbers?
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Feb. 14, 2019
Why Amazon Bailed on Its New York Headquarters The company will keep growing in Manhattan. But it wasn’t willing to go to Queens on less favorable terms than it had negotiated.
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Feb. 10, 2019
Constitutional Concerns Are a Major Risk for a Federal Wealth Tax There is a key implementation challenge for Elizabeth Warren’s plan to tax wealth: It would need to survive the courts.
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Feb. 8, 2019
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Feb. 5, 2019
Good News for Debit-Card Holders — Now It’s Easier to Rent a Car A big rental company sees an overlooked business opportunity in the 25 percent of Americans without credit cards.
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Feb. 4, 2019
Why Doesn’t Trump Know Anyone Who Agrees With Him About the Federal Reserve? If Trump wants to put his mark on the Fed, there are much better options than Herman Cain.
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Jan. 30, 2019
Howard Schultz Should Stay in Business, Which He Is Good At If Schultz wants to keep making a positive difference in America, he should ask himself what big problems he is best suited to address.
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Jan. 28, 2019
China’s Economic Loss Is Not Likely to Be America’s Gain Globalism was hard on American workers — as would be any move away from it.
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Jan. 28, 2019
Banks Don’t Like Paying You So Many Credit Card Rewards — But They Will Rich reward cards aren’t going away. But the most generous offers and benefits might be.
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