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  • Oct 2, 2018

    General Electric: What’s an industrial conglomerate to do?

    General Electric: What’s an industrial conglomerate to do?
    SEBASTIEN BOZON/AFP/Getty Images

    General Electric told investors Monday it has ousted CEO John Flannery after only about a year in the job. The company said it’s also going to miss profit forecasts this year. These are tough times at one of America’s most iconic businesses, which raises the question: What is the role of an industrial conglomerate like […]

  • Oct 2, 2018

    Rent strikes make a comeback in tight housing markets

    Striking Westlake tenants march through their neighborhood in late July.
    Matt Tinoco/LAist

    In cities where a housing shortage is driving up rents, some residents are withholding theirs to protest poor conditions.

  • Oct 2, 2018

    For farmers in central Washington, the USMCA is "a big relief"

    Workers harvest apples at Loftus Ranches in Yakima, Washington, in 2016
    Tommy Andres/Marketplace

    Patrick Smith of Loftus Ranches in Yakima says the new trade deal takes away some uncertainty for farmers like him.

  • Oct 1, 2018

    SEC agreement puts the brakes on Elon Musk

    Tesla CEO pays the price for tweets.

  • Sep 29, 2018

    Few student borrowers working in the public sector are finding loan forgiveness

    About year ago, the U.S. Department of Education started accepting applications from public servants to have their student loan balances wiped away. Twenty-eight thousand borrowers applied for forgiveness in the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program; 96 were approved. To qualify, applicants must spend at least 10 years working for government agencies or certain kinds of nonprofits […]

  • Sep 28, 2018

    Real estate tech firm Opendoor gets cash infusion from SoftBank

    Here’s a very different way to sell a home from the usual: Go to a website. Plug in your address. Answer a few questions about the house. And wait about 24 hours to see if you get a cash offer. A handful of companies are buying up houses this way, including Zillow. The biggest player […]

  • Sep 28, 2018

    Unpacking this week’s news at Tesla and Facebook

    A Tesla showroom stands in the Meatpacking district in Manhattan on June 6, 2018 in New York City.
    Spencer Platt/Getty Images

    There are two big stories swirling around two of the tech world’s biggest names at the end of this week: Tesla and Facebook. Tesla’s leadership is up in the air after the Securities and Exchange Commission announced Thursday it’s suing CEO Elon Musk for making what it called “false and misleading statements” on Twitter about […]

  • Sep 28, 2018

    What Japan and the U.S. hope to get from holding bilateral trade talks

    Japan has agreed to start talking to the United States about trade on a bilateral basis. That’s the word from both countries after Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe met with President Donald Trump at the United Nations in New York on Wednesday. Japan, up until this point, has favored pursuing multilateral trade deals including the […]

  • Sep 27, 2018

    As 70 mm film sees a comeback, who’s running those projectors?

    Genevieve Havemeyer-King practices threading a 70 mm projector at the Alamo Drafthouse movie theater in Brooklyn, New York.
    Peter Balonon-Rosen/Marketplace

    A mainstream surge in the format meets a depleted projectionist industry.

  • Sep 27, 2018

    U.S.-imposed tariffs are hitting American firms’ bottom line

    Jim Hackett, president and chief executive officer, Ford Motor stands outside the headquarters as they celebrate the production of the 10,000,000 Mustang on August 8, 2018 in Dearborn, Michigan.
    JEFF KOWALSKY/AFP/Getty Images

    The CEO of one of the nation’s largest automakers says metal tariffs imposed by the Trump administration earlier this year have cost his company $1 billion in profits and sales. Ford boss Jim Hackett made the comment at a gathering of business leaders in New York on Wednesday. The administration imposed the steel and aluminum […]

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