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Trump era opens banking license for fintechs
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Semafor • Dec 16, 2025
Activist investors are losing the Big Three
Activists complain that index funds don't show them love, even when CEOs underperform. Data suggests that's overwhelmingly true.
Semafor • Dec 16, 2025
US unemployment rises, underscoring ‘structural’ job market challenges
The US unemployment rate on Tuesday rose to its highest level since September 2021, the latest warning sign for the country’s labor market.
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Democracy Now Video • Dec 16, 2025
From “Alligator Alcatraz” to Gaza: U.S. Companies Line Up for Lucrative Gaza Contracts Under Trump
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Democracy Now Video • Dec 16, 2025
"Placeless": Author Patrick Markee on "Homelessness in the New Gilded Age"
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Semafor Podcasts • Dec 16, 2025
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White House ramps up economic sales pitch
Vice President JD Vance is appearing in Pennsylvania Tuesday to talk up the administration's economic policies.
Scheer Post • Dec 16, 2025
Bloody Diamonds: How Your Engagement Ring Helps Fund a Genocide in Gaza
Israel has no diamond mines, yet it dominates the global trade. This investigation exposes how diamonds sold in the West bankroll Israel’s war on Gaza, fuel violence across Africa, and are falsely marketed as “conflict free.”
Democracy Now • Dec 16, 2025
From "Alligator Alcatraz" to Gaza: U.S. Companies Line Up for Lucrative Gaza Contracts Under Trump
At least a dozen people have died in Gaza as winter storms batter displaced Palestinians forced to shelter in makeshift tents among the rubble of collapsing buildings severely damaged by Israeli bombing. That rubble is being eyed by U.S.-based contractors, who are already vying for lucrative contracts to rebuild Gaza under the Trump-backed ceasefire deal. “People are lining up and treating this the way they they treated reconstruction in Iraq,” says Aram Roston, whose latest investigation for The Guardian US looks at how the company behind the notorious Florida immigration detention jail nicknamed “Alligator Alcatraz” has been involved in rebuilding plans spearheaded by Trump’s so-called Board of Peace. Roston also discusses his reporting on the CIA’s involvement in U.S. military strikes on boats in the Caribbean. “It plays this key role in picking the targets that are chosen by the military for destruction.”
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Why corporate America is mostly staying quiet as federal immigration agents show up at its doors
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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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