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Airbnb swings to a loss as costs climb: WSJ

Home rentals giant Airbnb Inc swung to a loss for the first nine months of last year as costs climbed sharply, The Wall Street Journal reported https://www.wsj.com/articles/airbnb-swings-to-a-loss-as-costs-climb-ahead-of-ipo-11581443123?mod=searchresults&page=1&pos=1 on Tuesday, citing people close to the company.

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FTC demands data about small buys by Google, Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Microsoft

The Federal Trade Commission has issued special orders to five big tech companies – Alphabet Inc’s Google unit, Amazon.com Inc , Apple Inc , Facebook Inc and Microsoft Corp – to provide information about mergers too small to report to antitrust agencies, the agency said on Tuesday.

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Beware of Marxists in French Clothes

In the world of economists, Thomas Piketty has been lauded as an overnight rock star. But does he really have anything new to say?
Today, Nicholas Vardy explains why Piketty’s financial economics are hardly worthy of acclaim.

Last week, I saw French economist Thomas Piketty introduce his new book, Capitalism and Ideology, at the London School of Economics.
Few Americans have ever heard of Piketty.
But in the world of economists, Piketty’s earlier book Capital in the Twenty-First Century, published in 2014, turned this obscure French academic into an economic rock star overnight.
I was excited to find out what the fuss was all about.
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