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Barry Ritholtz

New York Times ) see also Wages are rising. Manufacturers need to cut costs as electric-vehicle inventories pile up, but this is easier said than done. The Big Picture ) • Secret History of Alan Alda’s M*A*S*H Dog Tags : At auction, it was revealed they were from WWII vets: a Black man from the South and a Jew from Brooklyn.

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Transcript: Angus Deaton

Barry Ritholtz

Healthcare minimum wage. But the, one of the biggest single contributors to inflation here, not the past few years during the post covid surge, but the past 40 years it’s been growing at seven, eight, 9% your, your insurance costs in your hospital costs. Let’s talk about minimum wage. Absolutely.

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US Falls Short In Restaurant Technologies

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When Payroll Legislation Comes With An $100,000 Price Tag For Corporates

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Tech Unicorn To Bring Billions In Japan, Illuminating A Culture Of Thrift

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Walmart Beats The Street, Raises Earnings Forecast

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Transcript: Albert Wenger

Barry Ritholtz

And Joshua added tags to that, and so you could browse things by tags. Because if it hadn’t been for the investments, we wouldn’t have gotten on the cost curve, for instance, for solar PV, right? And at that time, Union Square Ventures’ Fred and Brad had started the firm, they had just raised the first fund.

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