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The young French hoops star is on a path that could make him the first NBA player to earn $1 billion from contracts alone. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The young French hoops star is on a path that could make him the first NBA player to earn $1 billion from contracts alone. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the progress made in equality issues by corporate America as of October 2023. Topics covered include the addition of more than 300,000 jobs, with 94% going to people of color, the year after the Black Lives Matter protest, the increase of Black workers in high-paying job categories at Meta, Microsoft, and Pepsi, and moves by more companies toward diversity implementation. Also noted is the importance of company transparency so people can judge by themselves.

The article focuses on the challenges facing the U.S. Internal Revenue Service as it receives its 80 billion U.S. dollar-fund from the government under U.S. President Joe Biden's administration. Topics discussed include the funding cuts faced by the IRS, the decline in the agency's total workforce, the political fights within the federal government over IRS funding over the years, the impact of budget cuts on IRS operations, and the struggle of the agency in its audit of tax returns.

The article focuses on the home rental company Airbnb and its secretive trust-and-safety team that deal with crimes that happen during guest vacation stays. Topics include Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Brian Chesky, the company's image, and their effort to avoid bad public relations (PR).

The article reports on the work of Andrew Engler and Nathaniel Manning in developing wildfire forecasting models for insurance companies in California. It mentions the effects of climate change on wildfires, how current insurance models do not reflect these changes, and the development of new models that may assist other aspects of wildfires.

The article focuses on businessman James Dolan's ownership of the basketball team New York Knicks. It states the team is ranked the least successful basketball team in the National Basketball Association's modern history and suffers from high turnover and poor performance. It mentions he also owns the hockey team New York Rangers and is lead singer of bluesrock band JD & the Straight Shot. It comments on Dolan's antipathy toward the media which includes having reporters thrown out of events.

(Bloomberg) -- The 2023 Major League Baseball regular season marks the 20th anniversary of the publication of Moneyball, Michael Lewis' landmark book on how the Oakland Athletics used statistical analysis to build a winning team on the cheap. The Orioles and Mets are extreme examples - on opposite ends of the spectrum - of the fundamental uncertainty in the game. [Extracted from the article]

(Bloomberg) -- The 2023 Major League Baseball regular season marks the 20th anniversary of the publication of Moneyball, Michael Lewis' landmark book on how the Oakland Athletics used statistical analysis to build a winning team on the cheap. The Orioles and Mets are extreme examples - on opposite ends of the spectrum - of the fundamental uncertainty in the game. [Extracted from the article]

The article reports on the problem of college loan debt. It mentions the increasing amount of student loan debt and length of time to pay it off, the difficulties that young adults have in paying off the loans, and the possibility of loan forgiveness programs from the government.

The article describes the composition and flaws of the Major League Baseball labor market and argues that the system has resulted in declining performers earning the highest salaries, in addition to examining the labor market against the statistical analytic known as Wins Above Replacement (WAR), particularly focusing upon professional baseball player Matt Holliday.

The article discusses a decline in viewer ratings of National Football League (NFL) games broadcast on television (TV). Topics include broadcast media's dependence on the NFL as a major source of income, the impact of smartphones and the TV channel NFL Redzone on regular TV viewing of NFL games, and the impact of politics and a shortage of top performers in the NFL on viewer ratings of NFL games.

The article analyzes the neighborhoods in U.S. cities served by the same-day delivery service Amazon Prime Free Same-Day Delivery from the online retailer Amazon.com Inc. Maps are presented that allegedly show that largely white neighborhoods are disproportionately served and largely black neighborhoods are avoided by the service in metropolitan areas including Atlanta, Georgia; Washington, D.C.; and Boston, Massachusetts. Maps of Chicago, Illinois and Dallas, Texas are also presented.

(Bloomberg Businessweek) -- The $80 billion cash injection the Internal Revenue Service has been promised over the coming decade is undeniably serious money, but it still amounts to little more than a lifeline for an agency eviscerated by years of Republican-led funding cuts. The $80 Billion IRS Infusion Means More Audits - in 2026 or 2027 In 2013, after a scandal involving an IRS official targeting conservative groups applying for nonprofit status, Republicans saw a chance to rein in the agency and attempted to impeach former IRS Commissioner John Koskinen. [Extracted from the article]

(Bloomberg Businessweek) -- Climate change is making California's fire seasons more severe, but the conditions that lead to any single fire remain consistent: dry weather, overgrown brush, wind speed, and wind direction. These dynamics are on display with Kettle, a startup that's created a predictive system by using artificial intelligence to help it design reinsurance policies that protect insurance companies against wildfire risk. [Extracted from the article]

The article discusses the riots in Ferguson, Missouri following the fatal shooting of teenager Michael Brown in August 2014, focusing on whether the shooting and riots are indicative of larger racial issues in the U.S. Topics include a white paper on police discrimination in St. Louis County by legal aid firm ArchCity Defenders; racial disparities in responses to a poll by the research institute Pew Research Center; and the intersection of class, race and segregation in St. Louis County.

Discount carriers in the U.S. have been adding capacityas rising vaccination rates encourage leisure travel. A host offactors are at play, ranging from the high reliance oninternational flights -- which complicates bordercrossings -- to the emergence of new virus strains andsetbacks in the European Union's vaccination drive. Just this week Johnson & Johnson'scoronavirus vaccine rollout became the latest to hitobstacles, with the U.S. pausing use of the shot and itsEuropean rollout delayed after reports of rare instancesof blood clotting. [Extracted from the article]

Discount carriers in the U.S. have been adding capacityas rising vaccination rates encourage leisure travel. Globally, scheduled capacity is stuck at about 58% ofpre-pandemic levels, says John Grant, chief analyst ataviation data specialist OAG. [Extracted from the article]

A Tesla spokesman said Musk's retweets didn't factor into his Tesla-related tweet count, and this accounts for a large portion of the difference between his calculation and Bloomberg's figures. The settlement that the Tesla CEO reached with the SEC last year didn't place limits on the volume of his tweets about the company. - Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 20, 2019\n\n","meta":{"site":"Twitter","title":"Elon Musk on Twitter","author":"Elon Musk","canonical":"https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1098080063801585664","author%5furl":"https://twitter.com/elonmusk","description":"Meant to say annualized production rate at end of 2019 probably around 500k, ie 10k cars/week. [Extracted from the article]

The two most talented free agents, Manny Machado and Bryce Harper, sat unsigned for months before striking a deal with the San Diego Padres and the Philadelphia Phillies, respectively. After the third year players and their teams can negotiate a new salary; if a player doesn't like what his team offers, he can go before a panel of arbitrators to explain why his pay should be higher. After the 2009 season, Holliday became a free agent and entered the brief phase of his career when pay matched performance. [Extracted from the article]

How would Fox and Telemundo, two newcomers to World Cup broadcasts, perform? In the end, viewership trends revealed a resilient interest in the World Cup, especially among English-speaking viewers, and a strong preference for Latin American teams among Spanish-speaking viewers. [Extracted from the article]

(Bloomberg) -- Fox's World Cup Ratings Are Improving. After a lackluster start to the 2018 FIFA World Cup for both Fox and Telemundo, the fortunes of the two broadcasters have begun to diverge. In the quarterfinals, Telemundo's viewership lagged Univision's 2014 audience by nearly 49 percent. [Extracted from the article]

For Fox, that's true across at-home television viewership and digital consumption, according to Michael Mulvihill, Fox Sports's executive vice president of research, league operations and strategy. With no U.S. team to promote, Fox and Telemundo have focused their attention on the Mexican team in a battle for bilingual viewers. [Extracted from the article]

(Bloomberg) -- Baseball's Free Agent Market Is Way Down for This Time of Year Major League Baseball players have spent the last several weeks criticizing what they say is an unusually - even suspiciously - quiet offseason for free agents. [Extracted from the article]

Several statistics on National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) television income from its men's basketball championship tournaments as of 2015 including the difference in money earned by and money paid out to teams, the percentage of top basketball programs in Division I, and their likely percentage share of the basketball fund.

But many of the federal government's own buildings are also at risk of flooding, including the one that Trump has leased for his Washington hotel. In August, President Donald Trump reversed an Obama-era rule that required federally funded buildings and other government projects to account for future flood risks. [Extracted from the article]

(Bloomberg) -- Smartphones Are Killing Americans, But Nobody's Counting In NHTSA's defense, its tally of mobile phone-related deaths is only as good as the data it gets from individual states, each of which has its own methods for diagnosing and detailing the cause of a crash. Adkins has watched smartphone culture overtake much of his work in 10 years at the helm of the GHSA, growing increasingly frustrated with the mounting death toll and what he calls clear underreporting of mobile phone fatalities. [Extracted from the article]

Mexico's national team, which qualified for the 2018 World Cup, is a major draw for Spanish language viewers. The U.S. team was a draw for Univision's audience too, but the difference wasn't as stark: Roughly 44 percent more Spanish-language viewers tuned in to see the U.S. play relative to other games through the Round of 16. [Extracted from the article]

(Bloomberg) -- Trump Begins Shifting Courts Rightward Just as Republicans Hoped Justice Neil Gorsuch, with only a few months on the high court under his belt, already embodies the kind of influence Trump seeks to have on the third branch. [Extracted from the article]

The firms are cooperating at a deeper level than before on topics such as immigration, data privacy, cybersecurity and lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

(Bloomberg) -- Once Bitter Rivals, the Biggest Tech Firms Find Common Ground on Policy They were sown in the wake of Edward Snowden's June 2013 claim that the U.S. National Security Agency had gained access to data from companies including Apple, Google, Microsoft and Facebook. In the past several years, Microsoft and Google have made peace, settling outstanding legal issues in 2015, and all five of the companies realized it made sense sometimes to put aside business differences in the name of shared policy goals. [Extracted from the article]