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Reuters editor, journo since the 1990s, New York, loves travel, dogs, fried food. Jewish. Writer of fiction. Undefeated against my television in arguments.
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David Gaffen 🇺🇸🕊️✡️ @davidgaffen.bsky.social · Mar 10
Okay folks. I'm giving this #linkedin newsletter thing a shot. Want a quick update on the business of the week? Here it is, with The Business of America. Please subscribe! Thanks!

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

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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...
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November 10, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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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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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...
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November 3, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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Back with another version of The Business of America to talk - what else? - #earnings:

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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...
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October 27, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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Back today on the @reuters.com podcast talking #inflation #consumer #earnings. Check it out here:

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October 22, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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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
bartonlorimor.bsky.social Barton Lorimor @bartonlorimor.bsky.social · 21d
The @reuters.com World News podcast is a daily go-to in my morning.

Today, editor @davidgaffen.bsky.social in a segment on KPOP Demon Hunters merch not being ready until January had this insight that is bigger picture reporting than Netflix's Q3 earnings:

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October 22, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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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 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...
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October 6, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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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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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...
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September 29, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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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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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...
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September 15, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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The latest edition of the Business of America hath landed...

and so it's more more on #tesla and a Trillion dollars, and #Orsted #wind #hyundai #consumer and whatever else you wanna add. Read! Happy Monday!

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A Trillion Here, a Trillion There...
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September 8, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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Talking #Intel on the podcast here @reuters.com ! Okay I only get 30 seconds but still.
August 26, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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So...a lot of assumptions here on where we're going. And who knows, really? But this week's The Business of America nods to #Intel, the government stake, and various and other sundry things...

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Where Is This All Going?
I'm back! Yes, I took two weeks instead of one - and next week there will be no newsletter, because of Labor Day, but too much is happening to avoid chiming in here. Just a few hours ago, President Tr...
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August 25, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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Great to show up on the podcast talking #walmart earnings here: @reuters.com

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August 23, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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This was a good story from our team on #christmas

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Has Trump cancelled Christmas? China's decorations makers report no US orders
Chinese producers of plastic Christmas trees and other festive decorations say orders from U.S. clients, which are crucial for their business, should have started to come in by now. But because of surging import tariffs, they haven't.
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August 14, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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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...
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...
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August 4, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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And...the latest #businessofamerica is out. We're talking #trade and #earnings and #pizza (sort of).

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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...
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July 28, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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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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Earnings, Tariffs, and You
Welcome back! Yes, we are talking earnings. Yes, tariffs.
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July 21, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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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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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 ...
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July 14, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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Annnnndddd...another edition of #thebusinessofamerica has dropped! Come inside, the show's about to start...

#tariffs #evs #trade

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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...
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July 7, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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The latest #businessofamerica is out! And we're talking weight-loss drugs, tariffs, Nike and retail!

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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...
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June 30, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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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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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.
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June 23, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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The Business of America is back with another edition here! Talking #tariffs, #trade, #mergers ... and much else.

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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.
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June 16, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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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.
June 10, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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#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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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...
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June 2, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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Not for nothing but "side hustle" is much better than "polyworking."
May 30, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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Okay. We’re doing this thing. I’ll be reading from my WIP next Wednesday at KGB Bar in Manhattan! #nycwriterscircle #booksky #writing #amwriting
nycwriterscircle.bsky.social NYC Writer's Circle @nycwriterscircle.bsky.social · May 21
Did you know NYC has waterfalls? Come to NYCWC & we'll tell you where one is!

Our May reading features:
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Brett James
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Abby Sher
Cami Talbot

#nycwriterscircle #writingcommunity #literaryreading #springinnyc
a waterfall in a nyc park flows, surrounded by flowers. the event promoted is a literary reading taking place at KGB Bar on May 28th at 7-9pm.
May 22, 2025 at 12:02 AM