David Gaffen 🇺🇸🕊️✡️

Houston, for whatever its worth, *does* have good food. Underrated city for cuisine.

Reacting to the War in Iran The world's attention is focused on the Middle East after the United States and Israel attacked Iran with air strikes in an operation that President Donald Trump says will last four to five weeks. The...

back with the latest edition of The Business of America.

Talking #iran #energy #oil #naturalgas #travel

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Had a great time talking with my colleagues @carmelcrimmins.bsky.social and Michele Gershberg on the @reuters.com Econ World pod!

Hims & Hers shrinks....its own stock To quote Ron Burgundy, that escalated quickly. Let's begin with the saga of Hims & Hers and the $49 (introductory) weight-loss pill that was released with great fanfare on Thursday (see Amina N.

Back with another edition of The Business of America, talking #himsandhers and #weightloss and well, #salad.

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The Muskonomy Welcome back to another edition, where we highlight our scoop from the past week that Elon Musk's SpaceX and xAI are in line to merge, and pretty soon, in fact. In a piece broken by Echo Jing Wang, we...

It's another issue of The Business of America - and we're talking #Musk, #earnings, #AI, #Disney and a few other things. Enjoy!

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Minnesota CEOs Break Their Silence, A Little After weeks without any word from major corporations in Minnesota, the state's chamber of commerce pulled together a letter from more than 60 chief executives from the state calling for a de-escalatio...

Back with the latest from The Business of America, which includes the way in which #Minnesota CEOs have finally said *something* about #ICE tactics in the state. We touched on #earnings too, FWIW.

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Just got my story “The House on the Hill,” published in First Line Literary press here:

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#weeknightwriters

This. All this.

I'm just gonna pretend Delroy Lindo's nom is for Clockers from all those years ago ;) #oscars

The Silence of the CEOs Back on a Tuesday post Martin Luther King day after a hiatus, so welcome back to everyone in this already busy new year. One of the hallmarks of the second Trump term is very little in the way of push...

the latest edition of #thebusinessofamerica is here, talking #trade #tariffs #federalreserve and the silence of America's #CEOs around most of this, and esp around #ICE raids in #minneapolis.

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Aaron Rodgers will return in Avengers: Doomsday

“People demand Israelis not be Israeli.”

“When anyone in town needed help, they contacted Rocky Germain.”

That’s the first line of my first ever published story, “The House on the Hill,” available in The First Line’s winter 2025 issue, which can be purchased at the link below. #writing #fiction

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The Year That Was It's been a momentous year in business in the United States. The markets, very broadly, had to get used to a new and aggressive White House that involved itself in various facets of business - be it M...

The last edition of the year of The Business of America is here, talking #trade #deals #M&A #tariffs and the like.

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Highlighting Our Best | David Gaffen Another edition of the Business of America! Just highlighting some excellent work of late, especially around #Tesla #AI #Intel.

Another edition of the Business of America is out!

And we're talking #AI #Intel #Tesla in highlighting some recent scoops. I'll try to do a wrap of the year in the next edition.

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More Twists than a Hollywood Movie The Hollywood wars continued all throughout the weekend and into today -- with Paramount Skydance attemping to trump (word not used lightly) the bid by Netflix for Warner Bros Discovery in what would ...

#TheBusinessofAmerica returns with another one about #Netflix, #WarnerBrosDiscovery, #streaming and a recap on #ReutersNEXT.

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The AI frenzy is driving a memory chip supply crisis An acute global shortage of memory chips is forcing artificial intelligence and consumer-electronics companies to fight for dwindling supplies, as prices soar for the unglamorous but essential compone...

Ominous: here's what's going on with the #AI memory situation, which is approaching crisis levels.

"The memory shortage has now graduated from a component-level concern to a macroeconomic risk," said Sanchit Vir Gogia, CEO of tech advisory Greyhound Research.

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Getting going here at #ReutersNEXT for the next two days.

Giving Thanks, and Reuters NEXT For the past week the focus has been around what people are buying, if they're buying, and where. And the stress the consumer is experiencing cannot be ignored even as the holiday sales figures so far...

And we're back after a Turkey Day hiatus! Talking #BlackFriday and of course #ReutersNEXT and various and sundry else with another edition of The Business of America...

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Oh, Hey, the Government Reopened Welp. The government is open again after a protracted standoff where almost nobody got what they wanted.

this week's edition of The Business of America is here! And talking #walmart #retail and #bifurcation...

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My guess is the only Jewish friends are the ones you have in your head. And if you DO have any Jewish friends, and they are Zionists, I doubt they feel safe enough around you to admit it, even though Zionism is, contrary to your ignorant view, Jewish allyship.

Everyone's In a Foul Mood A few things came to a head over the week — not the least of which was the eventual consummation of a deal for biotech company Metsera by Pfizer after a series of bids from rival Novo Nordisk that got...

Yes, it's Monday. So...another edition of your fair newsletter is here, talking #Metsera, #Thanksgiving, #Walmart and #consumersentiment. Enjoy!

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Buying Tylenol for Headaches This may be the first time in history where someone bought Tylenol to give themselves a headache. But Kimberly Clark might have done it with a $40 billion deal to buy Kenvue, the Tylenol maker that ha...

It's Monday, which means another Business of America has landed! #Tylenol #AI #Metsera #OpenAI #Nvidia and anything else on my mind. Huzzah. Happy November.

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Earnings, We Got a Truckload We're headed into a monster week of earnings that will feature a total of 172 S&P 500 companies - including the technology, pharma and industrial giants. We'll see how the AI economy is chugging along...

Back with another version of The Business of America to talk - what else? - #earnings:

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Back today on the @reuters.com podcast talking #inflation #consumer #earnings. Check it out here:

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Appreciate the shout-out, @bartonlorimor.bsky.social ! Definitely a trend we continue to follow, and Hilton earnings today point to a similar ongoing trend. #earnings #wealtheffect #inflation

It's Me. Hi. I'm the Problem. Sometimes it's hard to keep just talking about tariffs, so it's good every few weeks when Taylor Swift releases another album that gives business writers something else to talk about besides that. The...

So...another edition of The Business of America hath arrived! And with that, we bring you bald-faced mentions of #taylorswift for no reason, plus #EA, #OpenAI, #tariffs, and other such and sundry. No edition next week - back Oct 20.

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It's In the Game Are leveraged buyouts on the cusp of another moment? It's a question that has to be asked after Electronic Arts — the video-game giant known for Madden NFL and a host of other games — said it was goin...

Like clockwork. The next edition of the Business of America is back in a New York groove, people. we're talking the EA Acquisition, #EA #ElectronicArts, #tariffs, #trade, chips and whatever else.

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Fighting Over Chips The relationship companies have between governments is only growing. China on Monday said Nvidia violated an anti-monopoly law, which means more investigations into the world's top chipmaker by market...

Back with another edition of The Business of America here!

What's going on now? We're talking #Nvidia, #Hyundai, #Oracle and a few other things...

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