Kyle Nowak

🎶🤑 Universal Music Group is paying $240M for a minority stake in Chord Music Partners, a joint venture that owns 60K+ songs from The Weeknd, John Legend, Lorde, Kid Cudi, & more.

“As you grow older you will discover that you have two hands. One for helping yourself, the other for helping others.”

–Sam Levenson (1911-1980)

🪫 The prices of metals used in batteries are declining, and data indicates that lower-than-expected EV demand may be the reason why.

🌏 Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny died in prison; Egyptian officials canceled plans to renovate one of the ancient pyramids at Giza; and more.

❓ Our question to you: In your opinion, what’s the number one policy issue heading into the November elections?

💉 Covid vaccines, which saved the lives of millions of people around the world, were linked to small increases in neurological, blood, and heart-related conditions, per a new US government-funded study that represents the largest global vaccine safety research to date.

🖱📰 Click to see a list of bite-sized stories you should know for today.

🔥 It’s Tuesday, February 20th – and here’s what’s hot, hot, hot.

"Success is defined as the ability to go from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm."

–Unknown

🔎💊 Federal regulators are investigating whether two types of healthcare middlemen are contributing to the ongoing nationwide shortage of generic prescription drugs.

🌏 Greece’s parliament voted to legalize same-sex marriage; Japan is no longer the world’s third-largest economy; and more.

🏛️🗳️ Former congressman Tom Suozzi (D) won a special House election to replace former NY Rep. George Santos (R), in a race seen as a bellwether for the upcoming November elections.

🖱📰 Click to see a list of bite-sized stories you should know for today.

🔥 It’s Friday, February 16th – and here’s what’s hot, hot, hot.

🤭📈 Lyft shares hit a 52-week high yesterday after reporting earnings that showed its best quarter in history – and also contained a major typo that sent trading algorithms into a buying frenzy.

"Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.”

–Jim Rohn (1930-2009)

🤪 Live from Austin, Texas, it’s the week’s weirdest stories…

💧☄️ Researchers have detected water on the surface of an asteroid in space for the first time, providing more evidence that the life-sustaining liquid first arrived on Earth from outer space.

🌏 Indian farmers are marching towards New Delhi in protest of agricultural policies; Ukraine says it has now disabled a third of Russia’s Black Sea fleet; and more.

❓ Our question to you: In general, do you support the current state of the gig work economy?