Peter Nowak

🤝 EquityZen and Forge Global, marketplaces for trading shares of privately held companies, are raising their investment minimums amid a partnership with Yahoo Finance.

🔥 It’s Wednesday, March 26th – and here’s what’s hot, hot, hot.

🏛️⚖️ The Justice Department is currently fast-tracking many of its ongoing legal fights over the White House’s efforts to push the bounds of executive power, setting up Supreme Court showdowns over a wide range of Trump’s policies in the near future.

🧬 23andMe is preparing to become absorbed into the genealogical tree of some other company. The ancestry startup filed for bankruptcy and launched a sale process late Sunday night, and also announced the resignation of longtime CEO Anne Wojcicki.

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🔥 It’s Tuesday, March 25th – and here’s what’s hot, hot, hot.

🏛️ President Trump indicated yesterday that he might soften upcoming reciprocal tariffs against US trading partners, and also announced new levies on countries that buy oil or gas from Venezuela, marking the latest recalibration of his administration’s tariff plans.

🥤 “Let’s start selling colorful, flavored drinks” = the “let’s start a podcast” of the fast-food world. Chains are increasingly adding high-margin drinks to their menus in a bid to appeal to younger consumers.

🏛️🎓 On Friday, Columbia University agreed to a series of reforms demanded by the Trump administration. It’s the first step in negotiations over $400 million in federal funding revoked due to allegations of antisemitism.

🙏 George Foreman, Hall of Fame boxer, preacher, and grill pitchman-extraordinaire, passed away on Friday at the age of 76.

🤧 Allergy season is here and getting longer and more intense in many parts of the country, according to the National Phenology Network.

🔥 It’s Monday, March 24th – and here’s what’s hot, hot, hot.

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😊🌍 Finland is the world’s happiest country, according to the 2025 World Happiness Report, which combines self-reported data with other factors such as GDP per capita and corruption to spit out an annual ranking of joy across the world.

🏡 Florida lawmakers proposed plans to sharply reduce or eliminate property taxes, in an effort to reduce the soaring costs of homeownership across the state. And while a full repeal – something that’s never been done in America – is unlikely to occur soon, the idea is gaining political traction.

🔋🚘 Chinese EV giant BYD this week unveiled a new system it says grants electric vehicles the ability to charge as quickly as conventional gas-powered cars. We live in charged times, indeed.

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🍎 It turns out Snow White may not be the fairest of them all. Disney’s latest live-action remake, Snow White, hits theaters this afternoon as one of the company’s most divisive and controversial projects in recent years.

🏢 Rippling’s believe it or not: The payroll and HR startup, most recently valued at $13.5 billion, this week sued rival and direct competitor Deel (valued at $12 billion), accusing it of corporate espionage.