"Hospitals facing all of these challenges might benefit from owners with experience in health care and a focus on long-term sustainability, but the one thing that private equity has indisputably brought to health care—its ability to borrow money on behalf of the companies it acquires—has been far less helpful.In a 2018 review of 390 private-equity deals, Daniel Rasmussen, a former Bain analyst w..."
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"Or if, like most of us, you have no universally consistent answer, how do you want people to decide whether to apply Petra’s approach or Rodrigo’s approach?When should institutions or the people within them do their particular job as best they can, construing them narrowly, and when should they instead try to better the world through their job?Send your responses to conor@theatlantic.com or sim..."
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"Although there are some concerns that number could be inflated—the health ministry is run by Hamas and President Joe Biden said that he has “no notion that Palestinians are telling the truth about how many people are killed”—the ministry’s estimates have been broadly accurate in previous conflicts."
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"After programmers designed it in 1959, Cobol quickly became the de facto language for data processing, which meant that banks, insurers, government agencies, and any other company dealing with terabytes of information wrote and maintained millions of lines of Cobol code."
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"In the case that they’re giving their child money for a down payment, with no expectation of repayment, parents should consider either utilizing the lifetime gift tax exemption mentioned above, or the annual gift tax exemption, which for this year is $17,000 (or $34,000 for married couples)."
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"In tapping Pick, 54, the firm is turning to the man credited with spurring a revival in its trading business after a perilous stretch during the 2008 financial crisis — a period when clients ditched Morgan Stanley and doubts about its ability to survive reverberated around Wall Street."
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"(The WGA declined to cast the studio heads as the heroes of the negotiations, telling Fortune “the people who were instrumental in making the deal were the 11,500 members of the Writers Guild of America.”) Still, with both actors and writers on strike throughout the summer, WBD had pushed back several big-budget titles originally set to be released this fall, including Dune: Part Two, Godzilla ..."
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"“I’m thankful for the quick resolution from the District of Columbia Attorney General’s office on this issue and grateful that the United States Capitol Police General Counsel’s office agreed I did not obstruct nor intend to obstruct any House vote or proceedings,” Bowman said in an emailed statement."
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"The study in Monday’s journal Nature Climate Change found even if future warming was limited to just a few tenths of a degree more – an international goal that many scientists say is unlikely to be met – it would have “limited power to prevent ocean warming that could lead to the collapse of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet.”"
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"(The WGA declined to cast the studio heads as the heroes of the negotiations, telling Fortune “the people who were instrumental in making the deal were the 11,500 members of the Writers Guild of America.”) Still, with both actors and writers on strike throughout the summer, WBD had pushed back several big-budget titles originally set to be released this fall, including Dune: Part Two, Godzilla ..."
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"More must-read commentary published by Fortune: Return-to-office mandates: Why tax breaks are not a reason for companies in states such as Texas, Utah, and New Jersey to force employees back Freakonomics author: ‘Objections to data science in K-12 education make no sense’ Why boomers are catching up with AI faster than Gen Zers, according to Microsoft’s modern work lead The growing case for doi..."
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"She recommended that people read the safety data Amazon submits each year to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, “which shows that rates in our buildings have improved significantly, and we’re slightly above the average in some areas and slightly below the average in others.”"
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"by $3 to $23 and its basic plan by $2 to $12.TRUST EXERCISE“One can envisage a scenario where low levels of trust allow an epidemic to spread, and where the spread of the epidemic reduces trust in government still further, hindering the ability of the authorities to contain future epidemics and address other social problems.”The above quote is from a new book by Fortune alumni Bethany McLean an..."
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"The founder and CEO of Pershing Square Capital Management warned that “structural changes” to the global economy—including deglobalization, the green-energy transition, and increased worker bargaining power—would lead to an era of persistently higher inflation and, consequently, higher 30-year Treasury yields."
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"Federal Reserve has been widely criticized by market watchers and economists for failing to use its toolkit to tackle inflation before it was too late, resulting in inflation surging way above the central bank’s 2% target and requiring hawkish policies to help bring costs back down."
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"All of these are clues that will direct those in the know to the hidden gold, banked to finance the KGC’s agenda—which was, at least originally, the creation of an alliance of slave-owning territories that would include areas in Mexico and elsewhere.But surely the central mystery remains: Whether the document is a real historical narrative or a coded waybill, how and why did this story surface ..."
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"“If we were designing optimal policy arrangements from scratch, monetary and fiscal policy would both have a role in managing the economic cycle and inflation, and that there would be close coordination,” Philip Lowe said in his last speech as Australian central bank governor in September."
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