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Why investment in public pools took a dive

Aug 30, 2024
As summer temperatures rise, some see the public pool as climate adaptation infrastructure, says journalist Eve Adams.
"[Public pools] offer this really important and reprieve from extreme heat that, as anyone who's lived through the past summer can tell you, is getting to be a real problem in cities," said journalist Eve Andrews.
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How a company’s value is determined

Oct 16, 2018
Uber is valued at $120 billion according to proposals from Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley.
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How a company’s value is determined

Oct 16, 2018
Uber is valued at $120 billion according to proposals from Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley.
Leon Neal/Getty Images

What's Dell up to? Going public again

Jul 6, 2018
The personal computing giant will go public after 5 years as a private company.
Dell CEO Michael Dell delivers a keynote address during the 2013 Oracle Open World conference on Sept. 25, 2013 in San Francisco, California.
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A fully public Fed?

Aug 26, 2016
Protesters on the left, as well as some economists, want to revamp the Fed.
A view of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, one of the 12 regional Reserve Banks.
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