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Return of immigration raids brings fear to ‘Mexican Capital of the Midwest’

By Heather Schlitz
CHICAGO, Dec 19 (Reuters) - Allyson Lopez had been hoping for business to bounce back at her dress shop in Chicago's Little Village neighborhood, which specializes in ballgowns for quinceaneras, a coming-of-age ritual in many Latino communities celebrating a girl's 15th birthday. Instead, this week brought the return of the federal immigration raids that have emptied the normally vibrant streets.
The first phase of the Department of Homeland Security deportation campaign, named "Operation Midway

Billionaire who sold two companies to Coca-Cola says he tries to convince people not to become entrepreneurs: ‘Every single day, you can go bankrupt’

Mike Repole, the billionaire entrepreneur who co-founded and sold beverage giants Glaceau and BodyArmor to Coca-Cola for a combined $9.7 billion, has an unexpected message for aspiring business owners: Don’t do it.
In an interview with The School of Hard Knocks, a popular social-media channel known for interviewing wealthy entrepreneurs, Repole shared his contrarian view on entrepreneurship, emphasizing the brutal realities that most success

Professor Andrew Urquhart is Professor of Finance and Financial Technology and Head of the Department of Finance at Birmingham Business School (BBS).
This is the tenth installment of the Professor Coin column, in which I bring important insights from published academic literature on cryptocurrencies to the Decrypt readership. In this article, I discuss how crypto’s relationship with equities has evolved.
Not so long ago, Bitcoin was marketed as the ultimate diversifier—an ***** et supposedly immune to whatever was happening in equity markets. Early academic work backed that up: Liu and Tsyvi

Scottish Conservative peer defects to Reform UK

The former Conservative business and Scotland Office Minister, Lord Malcolm Offord, has defected to Reform UK.
He was unveiled by Nigel Farage at a rally at the Macdonald Inchyra hotel in Falkirk on Saturday.
Lord Offord was the serving Treasurer of the Scottish Conservatives and served on the Lords front bench from 2021 until 2024.
He told the rally he planned to stand down from the Lords and campaign as a candidate for Reform in the 2026 Holyrood elections.
Announcing his defection, Lord Offord accused the Conservatives of "giving up" on

Wall Street is preparing to welcome a major player to the New York Stock Exchange as Twenty One Capital moves toward its public debut.
This Bitcoin price prediction examines what the landmark listing could mean for BTC’s trajectory amid ongoing market volatility.
Bitcoin treasury firm Twenty One Capital, Inc., has received shareholder approval for its business combination with Cantor Equity Partners (CEP).
The transaction is expected to close around December 8, with the merged entity’s Class A common stock anticipated to begin trading on December 9 under the ticker symbol XXI.

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Multibillion-dollar deal announced: Netflix to buy Warner Bros. and HBO

It’s official: In a move that will dramatically reshape the entertainment business, Netflix and Warner Bros. Discovery announced an agreement Friday under which Netflix will acquire Warner Bros., including its film and TV studios, HBO Max and HBO.
The deal has a total enterprise value (including debt) of approximately $82.7 billion, with an equity value of $72 billion, the companies said. The announcement of Netflix’s deal to buy the Warner Bros. streaming and studios business came after a weeks-long bidding war that p

Micron to exit consumer memory business amid global supply shortage

Dec 3 (Reuters) - Memory chipmaker Micron Technology said on Wednesday it will exit its consumer business, as it doubles down on advanced memory chips used in artificial intelligence data centers amid a ‌global supply shortage of the essential semiconductors.
Shares of the company were down 2.6% in afternoon ‌trading.
Micron's move to dissolve its consumer business comes against a backdrop of worldwide strain in memory supply chains, with tight availability of semiconductors ranging from flash chips used in smartphones to

NFL Hall of Famer Fran Tarkenton has a very simple rule for his employees.
It's why, at 85, he still insists on interviewing everyone who works for his companies.
Tarkenton said on the field or off, teamwork is still a critical **** et for any company.
NFL legend Fran Tarkenton said the same issues that can kill team chemistry in the locker room can also hobble a company, which is why he insists on interviewing each of his employees.
"If you don't have the right people, you can't make it in your business, my business, and you can't make it in the NFL," the NFL quarterback-turned-founder of

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In August 2003, Federal Reserve Chair Alan Greenspan kicked off the annual Jackson Hole gathering for economic policymakers with a speech acknowledging the trickiness of steering the U.S. economy through interest rates.
“Uncertainty is not just an important feature of the monetary policy landscape, it is the defining characteristic of that landscape,” Greenspan said at the time. He described the Fed’s j

Strategy Inc (NASDAQ:MSTR) is one of the stocks Jim Cramer recently looked at. Cramer mentioned the stock during the episode and said:
“In this business, nothing’s harder than spotting bottoms… What matters the most here is not Bitcoin itself, but a company called Strategy run by Michael Saylor, a Bitcoin evangelist who’s adopted what I consider to be a Malcolm X style by any means necessary approach to keep Bitcoin higher. He has a huge amount of money on the line because Strategy has transformed itself basically into a Bitcoin accumulation machine fueled by borrowed money.
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Bitcoin treasury firm Twenty One Capital, Inc. has received shareholder approval for its business combination with Cantor Equity Partners (CEP), with CEP shareholders voting in favor of the proposed merger and all related proposals.
The transaction is expected to close around December 8, pending completion of closing conditions outlined in regulatory filings with the SEC. Upon completion of the business combination and ***** ociated PIPE financing, the merged entity will operate under the Twenty One Capital name.
The company's Class A common stock is anticipated to begin trading on the New Y

After struggling with Week 12 spread picks, I went 4-1 in Week 13 thanks to underdogs pulling off upsets on Thanksgiving and Black Friday while heavy favorites took care of business on Sunday. Week 14 of the 2025 NFL season brings 14 games with it, as the San Francisco 49ers, New York Giants, Carolina Panthers and New England Patriots are on a bye.
Here's a look at our favorite NFL spread picks for Week 14.
Both these teams have dealt with poor quarterback play this season, although the Vikings have been substantially worse even when J.J. McCarthy is at the helm. Marcus Mariota has filled in

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“Rich Dad Poor Dad” author Robert Kiyosaki has surprised followers by dumping his Bitcoin holdings for real estate cash flow businesses.
Kiyosaki said on Nov. 21 on X that he sold $2.25 million worth of Bitcoin at about $90,000 per coin. He had purchased those coins at about $6,000 per coin, he said. The sale came amid a market crash that has seen Bitcoin tank nearly 40% from its price record of $126,000 to, at one point, trade just above $80,000 in a matter of weeks.
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Short seller Michael Burry just took a swipe at another richly valued stock: Tesla (TSLA).
Burry, who rose to fame shorting the housing market during the 2008 financial crisis, dubbed the EV maker as "ridiculously overvalued" in a Substack post on Sunday. Business Insider was first to report on Burry's latest missive.
His post took aim at the "tragic algebra" of stock-based compensation, and Tesla was an example. Tesla dilutes its stock by 3.6% a year, he said, and offers no buybacks.
"Tesla's market capitalization is ridiculously overvalued today and has been for a good long time," Burry s

The so-called Costco Effect is a phenomenon that boosts the wages of local economies as companies aim to compete with Costco's (NASDAQ:COST) wages, as defined by the "Micro" YouTube channel.
"Surrounding businesses raise wages up to 40% more," the video said.
Costco's ability to help local businesses is shocking when you compare it to Walmart (NYSE:WMT). While "Micro" discusses the Costco Effect, it also touches upon the Walmart Effect, which demonstrates how a big box retailer can destroy a local economy.
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Hondurans vote in election shadowed by Trump aid threats

Hondurans are casting their ballots in a general election that is being dominated by threats from US President Donald Trump.
There are five presidential candidates on the bill, but the poll is essentially being seen as a three-way race between former defence minister Rixi Moncada of the leftist Libre party, TV host Salvador Nasralla from the centrist Liberals, and businessman Nasry "Tito" Asfura, of the right-wing National Party.
Trump has thrown his support behind Asfura and threatened to cut financial aid to the Central American n

The boom in metal-intensive technologies like data centers and electric vehicles has made it a prime time to be in the US aluminum business.
Prices are booming. Part of that is because inside every data center are cooling units, server racks, radiators, and a litany of other pieces and parts made out of aluminum.
No wonder demand is high.
But data centers guzzle enormous amounts of power, and electricity prices are skyrocketing. In the US alone, electricity demand is expected to grow five to 10 times faster over the next 10 years than it did in the previous decade, per Bank of America.
For

US consumer confidence nosedived in November as Americans saw sour signs ahead for the economy.
The Conference Board’s reading hit 88.7 in November, down 6.8 points from October’s level of 95.5. Its measure of consumers’ short-term expectations for income, business, and labor market conditions also dragged lower to 63.2, remaining well below the threshold of 80 that the Conference Board says typically signals a recession ahead. November was the 10th consecutive month with a reading below 80.
“Consumer confidence tumbled in November to its second lowest level since April after moving sideways

Nvidia (NVDA) stock fell as much as 6.5% in early trading on Tuesday after a report that the AI chipmaker could soon see greater competition from its own customer, Google (GOOG, GOOGL).
The Information reported on Monday that Google is in talks with Meta (META) for the Facebook parent to spend billions of dollars to use its AI chips in data centers in 2027.
This would represent a big change in Google's current chip business, which sees the tech giant rent access to its chips, called tensor processing units (TPUs), to AI developers through Google Cloud. This means the chips are confined to Go

3 major internet outages in a 1-month span: That's not a fluke, it's a bad sign

It’s not just you — internet outages severe enough to disrupt everyday services for many people have become more frequent and wide-ranging, experts say.
When internet services company Cloudflare crashed Tuesday — prompting significant, hourslong disruptions at companies ranging from X to OpenAI to Discord — it was the third major internet outage in the **** e of about a month.
While there’s plenty of finger-pointing to go around, two things are clear: Popular consumer businesses increasingly rely on a handful

HONG KONG (AP) — An unmanned, oval-shaped craft from flying taxi maker EHang hovers, whirring noisily like a mini-helicopter over a riverside innovation zone on the outskirts of the southern Chinese business hub of Guangzhou, part of a trial of a mini-flying taxi that once might have been found only in sci-fi films.
In nearby Shenzhen, food-delivery drones already are part of daily life and a novelty attraction for tourists, even if such services cost more. In the waterfront park surrounded by high-rises, Polish tourist Karolina Trzciańska and her friends ordered bubble tea and lemon tea by p

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Scan through the terms of reference for the £200m Covid inquiry, and you might notice one glaring omission among the subjects it covers: the economy.
Even before Baroness Hallett began her five-year dissection of the Government’s response to the pandemic, she donned a set of blinkers that blocked the economic impact of lockdowns from view.
The implications of this are profound: a public inquiry whose most important function is to prepare Britain for a future pandemic will largely ignore the damage done to people’s lives and livelihoods by closing the country for business.

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Tyson operates meat plants in Nebraska communities, including Omaha. Its plant in Lexington, Nebraska, is set to close in January. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
LINCOLN — In a blow to the local economy of Lexington, Nebraska, Tyson Foods announced that it is closing the town’s longtime Tyson beef plant that employed about 3,200 people.
The Arkansas-based Tyson said in a statement that changes were designed to “right-size” its beef business and position it for long-term success.
The Lexington plant is to close on or around Jan. 20. The statement did not elaborate on why the plant in the tow

The drone economy is taking off, and investors are getting more options to put money into the budding industry.
The recently launched REX Drone exchange-traded fund, for example, has 80% of its portfolio earmarked for companies that generate the bulk of revenues from drones, unmanned aerial vehicles (UVA) and the companies that support the industry’s technologies.
"The drones theme is exciting for a couple of reasons," REX CEO Greg King told FOX Business. "No. 1, the military applications. Ukraine and the Middle East have approved the utility there. And defense budgets are shifting over to a

President Donald Trump has recently turned to a new economic indicator in his push to convince Americans that his policies are boosting the economy: the number of people receiving federal food benefits.
“In nine months, we’ve lifted over 600,000 Americans off food stamps,” he said Tuesday at the U.S.-Saudi Investment Forum in Washington.
A few days earlier, Trump cited the figure at the McDonald’s Impact Summit, saying, “It’s really because we really have a strong economy.” And last month, he also highlighted the number at a gathering of business executives in South Korea.
But a deeper dive

Bitcoin treasury company Strategy (NASDAQ:MSTR) is operating a fraudulent business model, economist Peter Schiff has alleged.
“MSTR’s entire business model is a fraud,” the Euro Pacific ****** et Management global strategist said Sunday on X, challenging Strategy Chair Michael Saylor to a debate at the cryptocurrency conference Binance Blockchain Week scheduled for early December in Dubai.
“Regardless of what happens to Bitcoin, I believe $MSTR will eventually go bankrupt,” Schiff added.
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Michael Saylor, Executive Chairman of Strategy Inc. (NASDAQ:MSTR), defended his company’s business model on Wednesday, **** erting that it can withstand Bitcoin’s (CRYPTO: BTC) fluctuations and continue to provide value to shareholders.
During an interview with Fox Business, Saylor stated that as long as Bitcoin increases by 1.25% annually, Strategy can maintain its dividend payments indefinitely and boost shareholder value.
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An Oregon volcano is about to power homes — and maybe change clean energy forever

On the slopes of an Oregon volcano, engineers are building the hottest geothermal power plant on Earth.
The plant will tap into the infernal energy of Newberry Volcano, “one of the largest and most hazardous active volcanoes in the United States,” according to the U.S. Geological Survey. It has already reached temperatures of 629 degrees Fahrenheit, making it one of the hottest geothermal sites in the world, and next year it will start selling electricity to nearby homes and businesses.
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The price of the world's largest cryptocurrency fell below its weekly low to the $88,000 level on Wednesday, Messari data show.
Strategy, a big corporate bitcoin buyer, isn't too concerned. "We're pretty indestructible," Michael Saylor said in an interview with Fox Business.
The ***** ps and bruises keep coming for bitcoin. Michael Saylor says he's unbowed.
The world's most well-known and biggest cryptocurrency is continuing to sink. On Wednesday, bitcoin (BTCUSD) set a new weekly low, falling below$89,000, according to research platform Me

Just as Bitcoin plummeted 12% over the last week, shares in East Asian companies with ties to crypto are also feeling the heat.
Recent months have seen a slew of listed **** anese companies follow Metaplanet’s lead into the Bitcoin treasury business.
Now, bearish crypto forces are dragging their share prices down by roughly 10% over the last five days.
So far, the carnage has been cast wide and includes Bitcoin **** an, formerly Marusho Hotta.
The firm, a 164-year-old kimono and textiles producer, this month completed a crypto-themed rebrand after it was acquired by the US-based crypto cus