Silver Lake Invests $400 Million to Tackle Data-Center Power Bottleneck
The private-equity firm is looking to bundle land parcels with power availability, which it said is now the biggest obstacle to data-center development
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Tuesday, August 19, 2025
Monday, August 18, 2025
Fox Hedge, a roughly $5 billion fund created for Apollo Global Management Inc. is a highly complicated investment vehicle pushing regulated insurance capital that smells like the initiator of the next global financial crisis
Apollo’s Fox Hedge Is Taking Financial Wizardry to a New Level
Private capital firms are going to remarkable lengths to squeeze out more returns for their regulated insurance companies.
The irony is that many Democrats pushing Assembly Bill 715 framed as a measure to combat an “antisemitic learning environment.” — such as Assemblymen Rick Chavez Zbur and Jesse Gabriel and State Senator Scott Weiner — have been vocal opponents of Mr. Trump, Mr. DeSantis and Mr. Abbott because of their attacks on free speech and protest. Yet here they are, advancing legislation that comes straight from the same political playbook. They should know better. California should reject this bill, and Democrats across the country should take note.
California Democrats Are Fighting Trump’s Battle for Him
Ms. Greenberg Call is a former special adviser to the chief of staff at the Department of the Interior.
Saturday, August 16, 2025
Rahm Emanuel should establish his Israel bona fides by declaring Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu should resign for having allowed Israel's border defense to lapse under his watch to the point it had by October 2023
Will the Democrats Go Centrist in the 2028 Election?
Rahm Emanuel resists far-left ideas and says Democrats should run on ‘build, baby, build.’
Many Israelis feel that freeing the hostages cannot happen if the government refuses to come to terms with Hamas and pursues its policy of trying to eliminate the group militarily.
Friday, August 15, 2025
“I just graduated with a computer science degree, and the only company that has called me for an interview is Chipotle,” Ms. Mishra said in a get-ready-with-me TikTok video this summer that has since racked up more than 147,000 views.
Goodbye, $165,000 Tech Jobs. Student Coders Seek Work at Chipotle.
As companies like Amazon and Microsoft lay off workers and embrace A.I. coding tools, computer science graduates say they’re struggling to land tech jobs.
Natasha Singer covers tech companies and their social impacts.
Wednesday, August 13, 2025
While the European Union was frantically negotiating a trade deal with Mr. Trump last month, the bloc more or less killed a free-trade agreement with a clutch of South American countries. The EU-Mercosur agreement, in the works for years, would expand trade between the bloc and Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay. Mercosur countries exported to the EU goods worth €56 billion in 2024, while EU exports to Mercosur totalled €55.2 billion, according to the European Commission. This deal should be a free-trade lay-up. The South American countries export primarily raw materials to Europe, while Europe exports manufactured goods to the Mercosur economies—the kind of comparative advantage that Adam Smith had in mind. It was negotiated to cater to Europe’s neuroses on matters such as precautionary food-safety rules and climate regulations. That’s why it took so many years to finalize
Europe’s Free-Trade Fumble
They pound on Trump and then kill a trade pact of their own with Mercosur countries.
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Proponents of racial preferences fear that if schools allow objective measures such as high-school grades and standardized test scores to dominate the admissions process, racial diversity on elite campuses will suffer. That’s a possibility, at least in the short run, given that Asian and white students tend to outperform black students academically. But lowering standards to produce more racial balance on the quad isn’t helping black students so much as it’s using them for aesthetic purposes.
Trump Demands the Truth About Affirmative Action
He requires colleges to submit data proving they don’t engage in racial discrimination.
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And yet, the logic behind such mega awards – that they incentivize the CEOs who receive them to perform their best and prevent them from leaving for a competitor – fall apart on reflection. For one, these CEOs already own enormous stakes in the companies they lead. If they double the value of the company, they will double the value of their own stake. If additional billions are what it takes to get them to do their job, the companies don’t have to grant them a single extra share. It’s already baked in. Similarly, if these CEOs are so valuable that losing them would have devastating effects on a company’s value, then that would have the same effect on the net worth of the CEOs. In other words, CEOs who demand such packages are essentially like hostage-takers who put guns to their own head and threaten to pull the trigger.
Billion-Dollar Pay Packages Are Disasters-In-Waiting
The notion that outsized compensation awards incentivize CEOs to do their best falls apart on close examination.
It’s too early to say exactly what New York’s next political cycle will bring. But the city is clearly hurtling toward a new social and economic order, much as it was 40 years ago. If Mr. Mamdani intends to lead New York — and maybe America — into this uncertain future, he’s going to need much more than rent freezes and free buses.
Mamdani’s Rise Marks the End of a Chapter in American History
Mr. Mahler is a staff writer for The New York Times Magazine and the author of the forthcoming book “The Gods of New York: Egotists, Idealists, Opportunists, and the Birth of the Modern City: 1986-1990,” from which this essay is adapted.
Tuesday, August 12, 2025
As America dismantles its elite institutions one by one, that aspirational connection is dissolving. The question is no longer how to stop comparing ourselves with the United States, but how to escape its grasp and its fate. Justin Trudeau, the former prime minister, used to speak of Canada as a “post-national state,” in which Canadian identity took second place to overcoming historical evils and various vague forms of virtue signaling. That nonsense is over. In several surveys, the overwhelming first choice for what makes the country unique is multiculturalism. This, in a world collapsing into stupid, impoverishing hatreds, is the distinctly Canadian national project.
Spain's open border policy toward those from Latin America has built-in advantages not shared by other European leaders. Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez policy of marrying practical solutions to an uplifting message, has provided a case study in how to build support for a progressive immigration policy
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