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Eliot Rebensdorf
(Deep Contrarian. Tweets my own. Now: Comms at @AECOM Past: @bakermckenzie, @fticonsulting)
The Wall Street Journal
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Joanna Stern
– Mar 1, 2:30 AM
Allow me to put this as nicely as possible, Rite Aid: I'd place your Covid-19 vaccine-booking website someplace between Horrible and Totally Horrible. First, I had to navigate through a corn maze of menus to find the actual booking page. Then, once…
She died just as I arrived at the wrong hospital. It was Wednesday afternoon, February 24, and the First Lady, Jill Biden, was making her first official trip outside Washington to tour the labs of the Massey Cancer Center at Virginia Commonwealth…
The New York Times
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Jim Tankersley
– Mar 1, 2:00 AM
|Warren Revives Wealth Tax, Citing Pandemic Inequalities Continue reading the main story WASHINGTON — Senator Elizabeth Warren, Democrat of Massachusetts, plans to introduce legislation on Monday that would tax the net worth of the…
The Financial Times
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Alex Barker in London, Anna Nicolaou and James Fontanella-Khan in New York
– Feb 28, 9:00 PM
By his own reckoning, Rupert Murdoch was supposed to die a fortnight ago, on a Tuesday afternoon. The media mogul scribbled the moment of his demise on a piece of paper in 2001 and flourished it during an interview taking stock of a five-decade…
For two years before the 2008 financial crisis, Walmart Inc. was embroiled in controversy over a plan to open its own bank, eventually withdrawing amid pressure from regulators and Wall Street lobbies. Some 14 years later, the retail giant is…