David Gaffen 🇺🇸🕊️✡️

Most of my go-to comfort meals are things I can turn into sandwiches the next day; it's become a cliche for the kids by now. But favorites? Bolognese, fried chicken, and pan seared salmon with soy sauce, probably. You?

Thank you! That was a fried fish I made and turned into a sandwich the day after. I have many, many recipes...depends what you wanna cook?

A Tragic Week on Wall Street This was naturally a very difficult week in New York and for the business community. As many of us at Reuters have reported on, a gunman killed four people at a Park Avenue office, including an execut...

The latest edition of the Business of America is here, with a few links from a tragic week in New York. www.linkedin.com/pulse/tragic...

Magnificent Seven, Ride! Time for a change of pace. Yes, there are plenty of news around tariffs - the United States and European Union have figured out a trade deal, after all - but let's first look at what we expect this we...

And...the latest #businessofamerica is out. We're talking #trade and #earnings and #pizza (sort of).

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Earnings, Tariffs, and You Welcome back! Yes, we are talking earnings. Yes, tariffs.

Another edition of the Business of America hath arrived! Like the heat in summer, we've got the heat of earnings. If that makes no sense, well, it's Monday. Happy Monday! #tariffs #earnings #economy

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It's a Bird. It's a Plane. It's Tariff Man. (Again.) One of the key facets of business coverage this newsletter tries to highlight is just how businesses are responding to the world around them. To be sure, that's mostly been about tariffs of late, but ...

It all feels like a hall of mirrors at times, doesn't it? Well, we're back with another edition of the Business of America - to talk tariffs (wonders never cease). #tariffs #trade #levis #walmart

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Tariff...Guidelines, Rather Than Rules Another week, another set of unclear tariff deadlines, but we're going to focus on the creeping fallout from the ongoing trade war, specifically around the endeavors by some small companies to make mo...

Annnnndddd...another edition of #thebusinessofamerica has dropped! Come inside, the show's about to start...

#tariffs #evs #trade

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DIY Weight Loss! Think inflation isn't biting into Americans' budgets? People are making their own weight loss drugs because of it. Some people are going so far as to use drugs that are in clinical trials and not even...

The latest #businessofamerica is out! And we're talking weight-loss drugs, tariffs, Nike and retail!

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An Uncertain World Hello. It's hard even in a business-focused newsletter not to turn towards the Middle East following the escalation of tension with the U.

A lot to get into with today's edition of The Business of America, beginning with what's happening with airlines and the Middle East. More inside:

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Friction and Fallout This week in The Business of America we're thinking about friction — that is, whether the cost of doing business is rising as a result of trade policy and other aspects of U.S.

The Business of America is back with another edition here! Talking #tariffs, #trade, #mergers ... and much else.

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This explanation from @pewresearch.org of a uniform definition of religion - and therefore not count "#Jews of no religion" illustrates how so many have difficulty understanding what it is to be #jewish as an identity. Pew has a clear goal -- not faulting them. Just noting the inconsistency.

Tacos for Everyone With the ongoing to-ing and fro-ing on trade policy, it's hard to ignore that the stock markets aren't taking Donald Trump all that seriously anymore. Hence the so-called TACO trade, an FT columnist's...

#taco time! In another weekly edition of The Business of America, we're back to talk taco trades, #tariffs and other things that strike my fancy. All here!

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Not for nothing but "side hustle" is much better than "polyworking."

Okay. We’re doing this thing. I’ll be reading from my WIP next Wednesday at KGB Bar in Manhattan! #nycwriterscircle #booksky #writing #amwriting

(Inserts Gloria Stuart GIF from Titanic)

Ain't that the feeling, tho.

"Even Jerusalem's clear air couldn't relieve the suffocation she felt..."

...and with that, I'm gonna highlight this in the art of the #perfectturnofphrase... #booksky

This one is just a great example of tight writing.

#booksky

#currentlyreading #reading

Halfway through...picks up around page 75 and really gathers momentum.

Attention Walmart Shoppers This week will bring earnings from a number of big consumer bellwethers, so Walmart's edgy commentary last week around tariffs should have served as a warning. The nation's biggest retailer reported s...

And...we're back! It's time for another edition of The Business of America, where we talk #walmart, the #consumer, #CEOs getting fired, and, well, that's about it, 'cause I'm keeping this brief and all.

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Celtics star Jayson Tatum injured, helped off vs. Knicks Boston star Jayson Tatum sustained a right foot or ankle injury on a noncontact play late in the Celtics' Game 4 loss to the host New York Knicks on Monday night.

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Never Mind! What was all that trade nastiness, anyway? Usually, I talk about the week that was, but it is moot now that China and the United States have de-escalated tensions by lowering tariffs as they work towa...

#Tariffs were just making us all feel unmoored...so y'know, never mind all that. And more here at The Business of America.

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M&A deal signing hits 20 year-low after Trump's 'Liberation Day' Bankers and CEOs hit the brakes on mergers and acquisitions after U.S. President Donald Trump launched a global trade war on April 2, with fewer deals getting signed than during the bleakest days of the COVID-19 pandemic and the 2008 global financial crisis.

The #tradewar has brought dealmaking to a screeching halt as we show here in Reuters today...

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The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, CEO edition The headline serves as a summary of the past week of CEO behavior, as we wonder just how much of a firm's stock price is wrapped up in their results, cult of personality, or both. The "Good" refers to...

Hot off the presses, another #BusinessofAmerica over on LinkedIn. And yes, I'm still talking about #tariffs and #movies and #WarrenBuffett and #ElonMusk...

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Revenge of the $380 Toothbrush It might be better this week to give this entire newsletter over to Procter & Gamble's earnings conference call for a sense of how tariffs are affecting U.S.

Another edition of #TheBusinessofAmerica is out!

And yes, more #tariff talk. And #earnings. And #toothbrushes.

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Nobody Knows Anything "What was true yesterday is no longer true today, what will be tomorrow I do not know." — Jean-Christophe Babin, CEO of Rome-based Bulgari The above quote (and the William Goldman line, though Peter T...

The latest version of The Business of America is out!

I'd like to say I'm not talking about #tariffs, but I am. And #earnings. And the choose-your-own-adventure approach to company outlooks that seems to be developing here...

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Nice call there on "Red Hill Mining Town," which immediately makes this one worth sitting up and looking at.

A bit confused how BB King's "Paying the Cost to Be the Boss" misses the list... but I'll give a listen!

Great work on your part. Really.

Exclusive: Trump's tariffs on Chinese parts for Cybercab, Semi disrupt Tesla's US production plans, source says Tesla 's plans to ship components from China for Cybercab and Semi electric trucks in the United States were suspended after President Donald Trump raised tariffs on Chinese goods amid a trade war, said a person with direct knowledge.

and #Tesla...

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ASML warns tariffs cloud outlook for 2025 and 2026 ASML, the world's biggest supplier of computer chip-making equipment, said that tariffs were increasing uncertainty around its outlook for 2025 and 2026, but stood by its annual guidance as the race for AI rages on.

Meantime tariffs are taking a toll on tech:

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US retail sales surge in March due to motor vehicle buying ahead of tariffs Households boosted purchases of motor vehicles ahead of tariffs, though concerns about the economic outlook are hurting discretionary spending.

Retail sales pretty strong today. Why? Def b/c of auto sales, which were pulled forward on #tariff fears. However, the broad components seem pretty good. Meanwhile, a gloomy outlook for the media companies, and tech companies also dealing with more tariffs.

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