Netflix won by “losing” the bidding war for Warner Brothers Discovery (WBD). The victory can be found in contemplating what Netflix was going to get in return for its purchase of WBD. It wasn’t an expanded customer base. By various accounts, something on the order of 80 percent of HBO Max (owned by WBD) […]
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“I saw a little piano in the room and I closed the door. Something said to me, ‘Idiot, go back in that room!’ I went back in the room and touched the piano…and every drop of blood in my body said, ‘This is what you’re going to do for the rest of your life.’”
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Who manages the Yankees? Or the Dodgers? By the conclusion of the 1977 World Series, managers Tommy Lasorda (Dodgers) and Billy Martin (Yankees) were household names. So were the players. It’s easy to this day to remember the 1977 Yankees including (but not limited to) Thurman Munson, Graig Nettles, Bucky Dent, Lou Piniella, Willie
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Playing was the fun part, while practicing and exercising were the work required to get to the fun part of playing. The weekend part. For Derrick Henry, it seems the weekend is all week.
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At the Wall Street Journal, Fed-watcher Timiraos writes that with government measures of inflation having “fallen much faster than expected,” nominal interest rates “adjusted for inflation” have “risen and might be restricting economic activity too much.” He worries that the nothing of notion of “rising real rates” signals great peril for the U.S. economy, and the Fed that allegedly plans it. The good news is that rates aren’t uniform because people aren’t.
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That James Dolan is the money behind Las Vegas Sphere is a pretty loud reminder that few initially thought the idea worthy. To attend a concert there is to see what a miracle Dolan backed. Love or hate Las Vegas, no one would say it lacks entertainment options. Yet the Sphere experience manages to pull 20,000+ each concert night away from all the other options. With good reason.
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Bruce Springsteen’s mother scrimped and saved to get him his first electric guitar. Which hardly makes him unique. His story is like most for the musicians of his era.
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Frank Farian wasn’t wrong, or a bad guy, or a fraud, he was just ahead of his time. So was Milli Vanilli. Give the musical act its due.
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“Our company is thirty days from going out of business.” That’s the motto inside Nvidia, a company presently worth around $1.148 trillion.
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One of the more obnoxiously obtuse narratives making the rounds today is the one about “nepo babies.”
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