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a cohost of 🌏💰 and author of The Bond King mchilds at npr dot org Signal @marychilds01
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George Pearkes
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Monthly Dallas Fed Manufacturing survey comments section vibe check: starting to turn around.
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Got to go on Slate Money Talks with
@felixsalmon.com
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GiveWell episode and ALIMA and the post-USAID world
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Money Talks: Saving Lives Without USAID
Mary Childs learned about how places like ALIMA and Givewell are moving forward now that USAID is done.
https://slate.com/podcasts/slate-money/2025/12/business-altruism-philanthropy-and-general-charity-after-the-death-of-usaid
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Brandon Roberts
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THREAD: The FDA has made it difficult to find where medications are made. Today we're changing that with our latest tool. With Rx Inspector, it’s possible to see your drug’s manufacturing facility and what the FDA found during its inspections. Here's how you can use it. 1/
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When cancer patients sign up for clinical trials, they may not know it but doctors stand to profit for enrolling them: pharma companies are paying $250,000+ per patient
www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
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Cancer Doctors Are Making a Fortune Off Drug-Trial Participants
Physicians stand to earn big money when signing up patients for drug trials. And lately, some of those trials have been producing dubious science.
https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2025-cancer-drug-trials-money/
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George Pearkes
15 days ago
Fun story. For shares (ETFs or otherwise) to trade, you need market makers to provide a bid and offer price for you. The thing is, that takes capital...and there's a finite amount of it. There are so many ETFs now that market makers may have insufficient capital to provide liquidity in all of them.
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RBC Warns of ‘Finite’ Market-Maker Capital For ETF Share Classes
Market-making firms in the $13 trillion exchange-traded fund industry may come under strain amid a potential wave of new listings in 2026, with US regulators poised to allow asset managers to offer ET...
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-15/rbc-warns-of-finite-market-maker-capital-for-etf-share-classes
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EconReporter
21 days ago
this shows the email is not AI gen!!! Art of the Deal!!
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god have you ever seen a more flagrant flex than typo-ing your email recipient's name when it is also YOUR OWN NAME
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Dara Kerr
26 days ago
I went to the Nevada desert to see one of the world’s biggest AI data center buildouts. It’s so big it was hard to wrap my mind around. Downriver is the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe and the data centers’ water and power consumption could put their land at risk
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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The AI boom is heralding a new gold rush in the American west
Once home to gold and prospectors, the Nevada desert is now the site of a new kind of expansion: tech datacenters
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/dec/04/nevada-ai-data-centers
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Nate Heard
29 days ago
So much public health work involves spreadsheets. This reporting is a wonderful spotlight on the compassion and humanism that motivates the people providing direct services as well as those who are deep in cell formulas trying to make the best funding decisions they can under extreme uncertainty.
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NPR's Planet Money
about 1 month ago
In the wake of USAID cuts, global aid programs had to drastically reduce their work. Private philanthropic groups tried to jump in. On today’s show, we get to listen in on one group’s decision-making: Givewell figures out if it can fund a program in Cameroon.
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Saving lives with fewer dollars : Planet Money
Givewell is a nonprofit organization that gives money to “save or improve the most lives per dollar.” Part of their whole thing is a rigorous research process with copious and specific datapoints.…
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NPR
29 days ago
In matching, brilliant blue suits, David Byrne and his band squeeze behind the Desk to perform four songs, including Talking Heads' "Life During Wartime."
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David Byrne: Tiny Desk Concert
In matching, brilliant blue suits, David Byrne and his band squeeze behind the Desk to perform four songs, including Talking Heads' "Life During Wartime."
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The Last Mile with USAID
about 1 month ago
USAID is gone. Can effective altruism fill the hole? : Planet Money
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Saving lives with fewer dollars : Planet Money
Givewell is a nonprofit organization that gives money to “save or improve the most lives per dollar.” Part of their whole thing is a rigorous research process with copious and specific datapoints. So,...
https://www.npr.org/2025/11/26/nx-s1-5622126/usaid-ngo-givewell-effective-altruism
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NPR
about 1 month ago
For this Thanksgiving, Planet Money and The Indicator staffers offer economic insights they're grateful for.
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8 economic insights we're grateful for
For this Thanksgiving, Planet Money and The Indicator staffers offer economic insights they're grateful for.
https://n.pr/48Ab1BC
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After USAID got cut, I asked GiveWell if
@planetmoney.bsky.social
could ride along as they tried to figure out if and how to jump into the void. They said yes. They recorded weeks and weeks of deliberations. Here is the episode about it:
www.npr.org/2025/11/26/n...
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https://www.npr.org/2025/11/26/nx-s1-5622126/usaid-ngo-givewell-effective-altruism
about 1 month ago
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How have prediction markets shaped reporting? I'm in Dirt Magazine, alongside
@weisenthal.bsky.social
and Mickey Down
www.magazine.dirt.fyi/p/the-signal...
@princessdaisy.bsky.social
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The Signal is the Noise
The politics of prediction markets.
https://www.magazine.dirt.fyi/p/the-signal-is-the-noise
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NPR's Planet Money
about 1 month ago
So … are we feeling the tariffs yet? Like, are tariffs hiking prices at grocery stores and coffee shops? On today’s episode, we get to the bottom of those questions, bust a collectible aardvark doll out of tariff jail and soft launch a soap opera.
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https://npr.org/tariffs-consumers-shipping-shopping-prices
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the
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team on what we're grateful for this thanksgiving season
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mine is so obvious i'm sorry but it's true!!
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8 economic insights we're grateful for
For this Thanksgiving, Planet Money and The Indicator staffers offer economic insights they're grateful for.
https://www.npr.org/sections/planet-money/2025/11/25/g-s1-98752/8-economic-insights-were-grateful-for
about 1 month ago
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it's Books We Love
@npr.org
day! I got to contribute TWO books this year -- one of them changed the way I think about life, which is what I want from a novel but almost never get.
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NPR's Planet Money
about 1 month ago
The US has offered $20 billion to Argentina. Congress didn’t authorize it–the money comes from an obscure Treasury slush fund called the Exchange Stabilization Fund. Where did this fund come from? And how likely is this bet on Argentina to pay off?
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we had our dear
@matt-levine.bsky.social
on
@planetmoney.bsky.social
PLUS (our subscription platform) to talk about why Margin Call is the greatest finance movie ever made:
www.npr.org/2025/11/18/n...
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Is this the greatest finance movie ever? (Planet Money+) : Planet Money
Set early on in the 2008 financial crisis, the film “Margin Call” zeros in on one investment firm and the actions of a handful of key players -- from its CEO to an entry-level risk analyst -- over a t...
https://www.npr.org/2025/11/18/nx-s1-5611408/is-this-the-greatest-finance-movie-ever-planet-money
about 1 month ago
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I think we as journalists must do a better job communicating what it is we do, how it happens and how it doesn't. Emily's thread here is very useful in that direction.
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Jesse Eisinger
about 2 months ago
JOB ALERT! We are hiring a business editor. You have an unerring instinct for the jugular of the wealthy & powerful? Build a team with me and we’ll get after it!
job-boards.greenhouse.io/propublica/j...
You can email me or on Signal at 718-496-5233
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Senior Editor, Business
New York City, United States
http://job-boards.greenhouse.io/propublica/jobs/4614125006?gh_src=7q0fkstt6us
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BAML: the proportion of lower-income households living paycheck to paycheck has been climbing over the past 3y, while the share of middle- & higher-income households living paycheck to paycheck has barely budged -- bc lower-income wage growth has slowed
institute.bankofamerica.com/economic-ins...
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there's a ship w 23 containers of radioactive zinc dust stuck off the Philippines that can't dock/unload bc no one wants to entomb the zinc dust. this reassurance from the Philippine Nuclear Research Institute director somehow isn't that comforting
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"The more employers that downsize their stockpile of labor, the more they create the conditions that make it less likely they’ll have to pay up to hire it in the future."
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The Labor Market Story
The World Needs Ditch Diggers Too
https://andrewsiegler.substack.com/p/the-labor-market-story?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=3898573&post_id=178510967&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=2f25&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
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NPR's Planet Money
about 2 months ago
The typical prison job, like being a cook, pays maybe $0.63 cents per hour. In seven states, people in prison don’t have to be paid at all. But now, some prisoners are earning fair market wages while they’re incarcerated. And the pay… can be six figures.
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NPR's Planet Money
2 months ago
The U.S. has long been the biggest source of remittances worldwide. But with immigration plummeting and the current ICE crackdowns, we try to figure out why remittances are surging in some countries. And why that surge in money sent home inspires joy – but also fear.
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The remittance mystery : Planet Money
For decades, the U.S. has been the single biggest source of remittances worldwide. A remittance is a transfer of money, typically from an immigrant to their family in their country of origin. But we…
https://buff.ly/e2MOZ4A
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Bloomberg News
about 2 months ago
Jamaica’s catastrophe bond has now triggered, said Dana Morris Dixon, minister of education, skills, youth and information.
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Jamaica Catastrophe Bond Has Now Triggered, Government Says
Jamaica’s catastrophe bond has now triggered as a result of the fallout from Hurricane Melissa, the government said.
https://bloom.bg/47jTA7Z
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BofA: fewer and fewer households are paying more and more in childcare costs. The trend is most prominent in lower-income homes -- parents may feel "little choice but to leave their jobs"
institute.bankofamerica.com/content/dam/...
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Jeff Horwitz
2 months ago
This recent preprint on tech industry influence over external research is compelling. Beyond documenting the low rate of industry-funded researchers actually disclosing that fact, the paper points out that journals have routinely waived IRB review for industry work.
arxiv.org/abs/2510.19894
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yes, pigeons pooping on sterile equipment is absolutely a competitive edge and should be preemptively protected as such
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Catherine Rampell
2 months ago
@kentclarkcenter.bsky.social
survey of top economists on how firing Fed Gov Lisa Cook would affect inflation risk premia on US debt
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Gavin Jackson
2 months ago
Last month I took a trip to the Amazon rainforest to better understand the economics behind deforestation and how to preserve the world’s largest forest.
economist.com/the-americas...
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The obvious economics of preserving the Amazon
It provides Brazil’s world-beating farmers with water, and keeps carbon locked up for the rest of us
https://economist.com/the-americas/2025/10/23/the-obvious-economics-of-preserving-the-amazon?giftId=3ed56782-ee47-43d5-94f4-dd9ce8bc1542
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Albert Pinto
2 months ago
Excuse me ” In a US buffeted by extreme weather, disaster spending is becoming a key driver of the economy.”
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"By inventing a stable of fake scientists, paper mills can create a ready supply of publications and favourable peer reviews, ensuring that more of the mills’ submissions get published."
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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How to spot fake scientists and stop them from publishing papers
Journals are considering doing identity checks to expose fake authors — but there are downsides.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03341-9
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NPR's Planet Money
2 months ago
When Russia invaded Ukraine, western countries sanctioned Russian oil. But Russian oil exporters quickly sailed around them, building a shadow fleet of rickety oil tankers to move that sanctioned oil around the world.
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https://www.npr.org//2025/10/17/nx-s1-5577076/shadow-fleet-russian-oil-tanker-sanctions-boracay
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NPR's Planet Money
2 months ago
On Planet Money: how a treasury travels from the nest to to hedge funds, and what happens once it gets there. And: we speak to one of those hedge fund investors about what they’re doing and why.
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How the government got hedge funded : Planet Money
The U.S. government spends a ton of money, on everything from Medicare to roads to defense. In fact, it spends way more than it takes in. So…it borrows money, in the bond market. By selling U.S.…
https://www.npr.org/2025/10/10/nx-s1-5565181/trilemma-treasury-market-auctions-goldman-sachs-basis-trade
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Michael Clemens
3 months ago
I talked with
@wailinwong.bsky.social
of NPR
@planetmoney.bsky.social
about the US Administration’s unprecedented policy to slash immigration by high-skill STEM workers Americans can expect diminished innovation, entrepreneurship, and productivity across all sectors
www.npr.org/2025/09/30/n...
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We're about to lose a lot of foreign STEM workers : The Indicator from Planet Money
Earlier this month, President Donald Trump announced a $100,000 fee on new H-1B visa petitioners. Today on the show, we talk to an economist about how much H-1B visa holders have contributed to US gro...
https://www.npr.org/2025/09/30/nx-s1-5557369/were-about-to-lose-a-lot-of-foreign-stem-workers
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Gary Shteyngart
3 months ago
God, I love Richmond...
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the inimitable
@shteyngart.bsky.social
is coming to Richmond for a talk tomorrow, and Richmond is stoked
www.styleweekly.com/pockets-of-l...
@styleweekly.com
by Tim Abbondelo
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Pockets of Light
Talking technology, writing research, and the importance of traveling by bus with novelist Gary Shteyngart and journalist Mary Childs.
https://www.styleweekly.com/pockets-of-light/
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The Treasury basis trade, OR: how the US government got hedge funded, on today's
@planetmoney.bsky.social
www.npr.org/2025/10/10/n...
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How the government got hedge funded : Planet Money
The U.S. government spends a ton of money, on everything from Medicare to roads to defense. In fact, it spends way more than it takes in. So…it borrows money, in the bond market. By selling U.S. Treas...
https://www.npr.org/2025/10/10/nx-s1-5565181/trilemma-treasury-market-auctions-goldman-sachs-basis-trade
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"We have no choice but to be the solutions to our own problems....We have to use our creative energy to create the world we want; not just to critique the world as it is."
@ari-shapiro.bsky.social
on this his last day at
@npr.org
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Books closing and opening
when the universe shouts
https://arishapiro.substack.com/p/books-closing-and-opening
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Michael Druker
3 months ago
This is a fascinating look at part of the reality of a place and people that Israel is attempting to wipe off the map
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Christopher Mims
3 months ago
I see this popping up over and over again. People just do not think America is safe anymore. Partly it's the endless mass shootings. But of course these days it's just as much that simply coming here as a tourist -- much less trying to work here -- is an invitation to detention.
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NPR's Planet Money
3 months ago
A few years ago, the Wall Street firm, Jane Street, discovered a sort of goldmine in one of the biggest economies in the world. They became the envy of Wall Street. But when they tried to keep that goldmine a secret, things spiraled out of their control.
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How Jane Street’s secret billion-dollar trade unraveled : Planet Money
On Wall Street, fortunes are often won and lost with the tiniest advantages. And for the past few years, one trading firm has stood out from the rest for both huge profits and careful secrecy — Jane…
https://buff.ly/ZyG6wOZ
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Micah Loewinger
3 months ago
My employer New York Public Radio just announced that it is offering
@onthemedia.bsky.social
,
@radiolab.bsky.social
, and other programs to at-risk public radio stations for free! More info:
current.org/2025/09/wnyc...
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on this episode of
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, Sarah Gonzalez looks at the state of money in Gaza right now. how to get money into Gaza, how to get money out of a bank in Gaza, how cash works, and what there is to buy:
www.npr.org/2025/09/20/n...
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In Gaza, money is falling apart : Planet Money
Israel has been blocking the flow of physical money into Gaza since the start of the war. So whatever paper cash was in Gaza before the war, that’s all that’s been circulating. It’s now falling apart ...
https://www.npr.org/2025/09/20/nx-s1-5547307/gaza-palestine-israel-shekel-cash-shortage
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Carl Quintanilla
4 months ago
“.. The document appears to counter other documentation that Cook’s critics have cited in support of their claims that she committed mortgage fraud ..”
@reuters.com
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Sally Mann got bored developing her own negatives so mindlessly started to scroll and it maybe accidentally solarized her picture. “I think it was the light from the phone that did it. But I don’t know for sure, and now I have to find out.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/a...
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Sally Mann, in Her Golden Hour, Faces Fresh Culture Wars
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/arts/design/sally-mann-photography-art-museums-book.html
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yoww: - Skybridge Opportunity Zone REIT was supposed to raise $3b. raised <$50m - has made ONE investment, in New Orleans - Scaramucci suggested 8-10% annualized before tax benefits. So far: 0% payouts - meanwhile: SkyBridge Capital gets 1.75% of the fund’s $43m NAV
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Scaramucci Struggles to Spin a Trump Tax Break Into Profit for Clients
Anthony Scaramucci is struggling to spin one of President Donald Trump’s big tax breaks into a profit for his wealthy clients. Yet “the Mooch,” as he’s known on Wall Street, keeps getting paid his fee...
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-08/scaramucci-s-new-orleans-hotel-bet-turns-into-bust-for-opportunity-zone-backers?srnd=homepage-americas
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