(Reuters) – A blank-check acquisition company backed by investors Harry Sloan and Eli Baker has abandoned a novel plan that would have enabled it to take multiple companies public, according to regulatory filings published on Thursday. The investors made the change because of feedback from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that it was […]

Vaccine diplomacy from China and India. By Melina Delkic Good morning. We’re covering how China and India are using Covid-19 vaccines to bolster their influence, President Biden’s biggest challenge abroad and low-key Lunar New Year celebrations. Vaccines become a tool in diplomacy China, India and other countries are using Covid-19 vaccines to gain favor or […]

In today’s edition of the Morning newsletter, David Leonhardt writes: The number of new coronavirus cases continues to plummet, as does the number of Americans hospitalized with symptoms. Deaths have also begun to decline. And the number of daily vaccination shots has nearly tripled over the last month. It’s been a long time since the […]

By Kara Swisher Fran Lebowitz claims she’s not an influencer. Yet the iconic New York City social commentator and star of the Netflix special “Pretend It’s A City” has an opinion on almost everything, and an audience who is often eager to hear it. On today’s episode of “Sway,” Kara presses Ms. Lebowitz on her […]

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – Dutch investor HAL Trust is considering listing shares of Dutch online store Coolblue on the Amsterdam stock exchange this year, it said on Thursday. HAL has a 49% interest in Coolblue, which last year reported revenue of about 2 billion euros ($2.43 billion) and earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA) […]

Requiring work in exchange for benefits is an unfair system that doesn’t help the neediest. But that could change. By Matt Bruenig Mr. Bruenig is the founder of People’s Policy Project, a small-donor-supported think tank that focuses on research and advocacy for progressive policy ideas. President Biden and congressional Democrats are pushing forward with a […]

(Reuters) – Two blank-check firms formed by investor Mark Ein are aiming to raise about $600 million in their initial public offerings (IPO), regulatory filings showed on Monday. Capitol Investment Corp VI, the sixth special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) backed by Ein, said it would sell 20 million units, comprising shares and warrants, priced at […]

Has a bloc of voters emerged that is not only alien to the American system of governance but toxic to it? “The central weakness of our political system now is the Republican Party,” Daniel Ziblatt, a political scientist at Harvard, said in an interview with Vox on Jan. 13, a week after the storming of […]

George Shultz, a long-serving secretary of state under President Ronald Reagan, died on Saturday at age 100. A man of many achievements — he also held three cabinet posts under President Richard Nixon — there’s one for which he never received full credit: winding down the Cold War. Without Mr. Shultz’s steady guidance, Reagan could […]

NASHVILLE — Almost every winter morning, the same avian drama plays out in my yard as soon as I walk to the back door. If the neighborhood bluebirds are anywhere nearby, one of them will spot me standing behind the glass and fly expectantly into the bare branches of the closest maple. Then the rest […]