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George D. Gould, a Wall Street financier who was a calm figure in the frenzied fiscal crisis of the mid-1970s in New York and an… Read More »George D. Gould, Pillar of New York Fiscal Rescue, Dies at 94
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Elon Musk has never been accused of dreaming small. He has reinvented at least two industries with Tesla, his electronic vehicle company, and SpaceX, the… Read More »Inside Elon Musk’s big plans for Twitter
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Then, last month, Ron DeSantis, the Republican governor in Florida, took action that threatened to derail that movement: angry that Bob Chapek, the chief executive… Read More »Companies are stuck between their workers and politicians
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In space you don’t hear a black hole screaming, but apparently you do hear it singing. In 2003, astrophysicists working with NASA’s orbiting Chandra X-ray… Read More »Hear the weird sounds of a singing black hole
This week, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was in Windsor, Ontario, my hometown, to announce that his government was giving more money to Stellantis, the automaker… Read More »Do automotive jobs in Canada depend on government aid?
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