A Quarter-Billion Dollars for Defamation: Inside Greenpeace’s Huge Loss

A pipeline company’s lawsuit against the environmental group could chill free speech, experts said. First Amendment issues are likely to figure prominently in an appeal.When the environmental group Greenpeace lost a nearly $670 million verdict this month over its role in…

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Will trendy axe throwing and escape room businesses last? More experience-based retail: the Hat Bar

Continuing the discussion on experience-based businesses, what happens after everyone in town tries it? Do these businesses go away?Sheila Scarborough posed the question this way:How do all these axe-throwing and escape room places think they’re going to stay in business past…

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The Rollover

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Photo credit: jb You’ve likely heard the conventional wisdom – “when you leave your job, you should roll over your retirement account”. You may know that it makes sense (or at least you assume it makes sense), but do you know…

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Creating A Hiring Experience That Better Attracts Talent (And Can Compete With Larger Institutions)

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South Carolina Drops Coinbase Lawsuit as Bitcoin Reserve is on the Horizon

South Carolina announced that it is dropping charges levelled against the crypto exchange Coinbase while it pursues a bill on Bitcoin Reserve.  The South Carolina state confirmed dismissing the lawsuit against the US largest crypto exchange, Coinbase, alleging illegality in staking…

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10 Sunday Reads

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Avert your eyes! My Sunday morning look at incompetency, corruption and policy failures: • This Is the Land of Wolves Now: Masked agents snatching people off the street. Government officials using caged prisoners for propaganda videos. We are the villains. (The Bulwark) • The…

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Sludge-Fertilizer Giant Leaves Texas Town Amid ‘Forever Chemicals’ Crisis

Ranchers claim livestock has been sickened by toxic chemicals in fertilizer made from sewage. Now Synagro, a Goldman Sachs-backed firm, has lost a deal to make sludge fertilizer there.The City of Fort Worth, Texas, is ending its contract with Synagro, the…

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Airplane Accidents Are Making People Re-Evaluate How They Fly With Infants

Recent airplane accidents have fueled concerns about whether young children are sufficiently protected on flights and prompted parents and caregivers to re-evaluate how, and even whether, they should fly with infants.Three years later, Khadija Zaidi-Rashid still remembers the screams of other…

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Mining Company Seeks Trump Support to Shortcut Access to Seabed Metals

Mining companies and the Trump administration want the metals to boost manufacturing. Environmentalists and some countries worry industrial mining would harm oceans.The long-running battle over whether to allow Pacific Ocean seabed mining took an unexpected turn Thursday when a company disclosed…

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Auto Tariff Sticker Shock

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President Trump’s vow to hit the global automotive industry with new duties risks raising inflation and inflaming trade-war tensions.President Trump’s latest tariffs on the auto sector are being felt around the world.Carlos Osorio/ReutersThe wheels come off Global stocks have run into…

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