Semafor • Dec 18, 2025
‘Our favorite monopolists’: How Keurig kept its iron grip on coffee pods
A pending deal between Keurig and Peet's would create a global coffee giant and bring one of Keurig’s biggest customers in-house.
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Drop Site News • Dec 18, 2025
Israel secures record gas deal with Egypt and record arms deal with Germany; U.S. airstrike on another boat in Pacific kills four
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Scheer Post • Dec 18, 2025
Majority of Democrats Join Senate GOP to Pass Trump’s $900 Billion Pentagon Wish List
Sen. Ron Wyden said the bill “increases military spending by tens of billions of dollars and fails to include guardrails against Donald Trump and Hegseth’s authoritarian abuses."
Scheer Post • Dec 18, 2025
Netanyahu Announces Approval of $35Bn Gas Deal With Egypt
Israel’s Channel 14 quoted Netanyahu as saying that the gas deal with Egypt represents an “economic and strategic achievement”.
Scheer Post • Dec 18, 2025
Instacart’s AI Experiments Are Costing Americans
A hidden price adjustment scheme could cost families up to $1,200 a year.
Scheer Post • Dec 18, 2025
Credit History Remains an Obstacle for Section 8 Tenants, Despite Anti-Discrimination Law
California prohibits the use of credit history to reject applicants with housing assistance without considering pay stubs and other alternatives. Big landlords keep doing it anyway.
Semafor • Dec 18, 2025
Oil major BP announces first female CEO
Meg O’Neill, CEO of Australian oil and gas producer Woodside Energy, will replace Murray Auchincloss as CEO of the British major BP.
Democracy Now • Dec 18, 2025
"Divorced from Reality": Economist Dean Baker Fact-Checks Trump's Primetime Speech
President Trump praised the state of the U.S. economy in a primetime address Wednesday evening, even though new government statistics show the nation’s unemployment rate is at a new four-year high of 4.6%. Dean Baker, senior economist at the Center for Economic and Policy Research, says Trump’s aides should be “wondering about the man’s sanity” after Wednesday’s speech. “This is utterly divorced from reality.” Though Trump blames former President Biden for the poor economy, Baker notes that Trump had inherited an “incredibly strong economy by almost every measure imaginable.”
Semafor • Dec 18, 2025
Major Chinese real estate firm risks default as crisis persists
Concerns about the real estate sector are among myriad issues facing China’s economy.
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Michigan Lawsuit Calls Big Oil a “Cartel” That’s Driving High Energy Bills
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Why corporate America is mostly staying quiet as federal immigration agents show up at its doors
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Has Little Caesars Arena boosted economic activity in Detroit? We looked at hotel and short-term rental industry data to find out
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Bad Bunny, Billionaires, and the Business of Sports
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Data centers told to pitch in as storms and cold weather boost power demand
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Denmark’s generous child care and parental leave policies erase 80% of the ‘motherhood penalty’ for working moms
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Ignoring China’s Poverty Alleviation Success Is Costing Us All
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3 things to know about Kevin Warsh, Trump’s nod for Fed chair
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Mamdani Announces New Settlement Securing Backpay for Delivery Workers
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