David Gaffen 🇺🇸🕊️✡️
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Reuters editor, journo since the 1990s, New York, loves travel, dogs, fried food. Jewish. Writer of fiction. Undefeated against my television in arguments.
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The First Line Winter 2025
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“When anyone in town needed help, they contacted Rocky Germain.”
That’s the first line of my first ever published story, “The House on the Hill,” available in The First Line’s winter 2025 issue, which can be purchased at the link below. #writing #fiction
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That’s the first line of my first ever published story, “The House on the Hill,” available in The First Line’s winter 2025 issue, which can be purchased at the link below. #writing #fiction
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It's another issue of The Business of America - and we're talking #Musk, #earnings, #AI, #Disney and a few other things. Enjoy!
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The Muskonomy
Welcome back to another edition, where we highlight our scoop from the past week that Elon Musk's SpaceX and xAI are in line to merge, and pretty soon, in fact. In a piece broken by Echo Jing Wang, we...
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February 2, 2026 at 7:02 PM
It's another issue of The Business of America - and we're talking #Musk, #earnings, #AI, #Disney and a few other things. Enjoy!
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Back with the latest from The Business of America, which includes the way in which #Minnesota CEOs have finally said *something* about #ICE tactics in the state. We touched on #earnings too, FWIW.
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Minnesota CEOs Break Their Silence, A Little
After weeks without any word from major corporations in Minnesota, the state's chamber of commerce pulled together a letter from more than 60 chief executives from the state calling for a de-escalatio...
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January 26, 2026 at 5:34 PM
Back with the latest from The Business of America, which includes the way in which #Minnesota CEOs have finally said *something* about #ICE tactics in the state. We touched on #earnings too, FWIW.
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Just got my story “The House on the Hill,” published in First Line Literary press here:
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#weeknightwriters
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#weeknightwriters
January 23, 2026 at 2:56 AM
Just got my story “The House on the Hill,” published in First Line Literary press here:
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#weeknightwriters
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#weeknightwriters
the latest edition of #thebusinessofamerica is here, talking #trade #tariffs #federalreserve and the silence of America's #CEOs around most of this, and esp around #ICE raids in #minneapolis.
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The Silence of the CEOs
Back on a Tuesday post Martin Luther King day after a hiatus, so welcome back to everyone in this already busy new year. One of the hallmarks of the second Trump term is very little in the way of push...
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January 20, 2026 at 3:22 PM
the latest edition of #thebusinessofamerica is here, talking #trade #tariffs #federalreserve and the silence of America's #CEOs around most of this, and esp around #ICE raids in #minneapolis.
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Aaron Rodgers will return in Avengers: Doomsday
a jets football player is kneeling on the field with his head down
ALT: a jets football player is kneeling on the field with his head down
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January 13, 2026 at 4:50 AM
Aaron Rodgers will return in Avengers: Doomsday
“People demand Israelis not be Israeli.”
Unionizing workers at NYC’s largest Israeli bakery chain Breads demand an end to what they call the company’s support for Israel.
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Bread's Bakery employees demand end to Israeli ties | The Jerusalem Post
The new union is calling on the bakery’s operators, CEO Yonatan Floman and founder Gadi Peleg, to end Breads’ ties to Israel.
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January 9, 2026 at 12:16 AM
“People demand Israelis not be Israeli.”
“When anyone in town needed help, they contacted Rocky Germain.”
That’s the first line of my first ever published story, “The House on the Hill,” available in The First Line’s winter 2025 issue, which can be purchased at the link below. #writing #fiction
bluecubiclepress.com/TFLwinter202...
That’s the first line of my first ever published story, “The House on the Hill,” available in The First Line’s winter 2025 issue, which can be purchased at the link below. #writing #fiction
bluecubiclepress.com/TFLwinter202...
The First Line Winter 2025
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January 3, 2026 at 12:01 AM
“When anyone in town needed help, they contacted Rocky Germain.”
That’s the first line of my first ever published story, “The House on the Hill,” available in The First Line’s winter 2025 issue, which can be purchased at the link below. #writing #fiction
bluecubiclepress.com/TFLwinter202...
That’s the first line of my first ever published story, “The House on the Hill,” available in The First Line’s winter 2025 issue, which can be purchased at the link below. #writing #fiction
bluecubiclepress.com/TFLwinter202...
The last edition of the year of The Business of America is here, talking #trade #deals #M&A #tariffs and the like.
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The Year That Was
It's been a momentous year in business in the United States. The markets, very broadly, had to get used to a new and aggressive White House that involved itself in various facets of business - be it M...
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December 22, 2025 at 5:24 PM
The last edition of the year of The Business of America is here, talking #trade #deals #M&A #tariffs and the like.
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Another edition of the Business of America is out!
And we're talking #AI #Intel #Tesla in highlighting some recent scoops. I'll try to do a wrap of the year in the next edition.
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And we're talking #AI #Intel #Tesla in highlighting some recent scoops. I'll try to do a wrap of the year in the next edition.
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Highlighting Our Best | David Gaffen
Another edition of the Business of America! Just highlighting some excellent work of late, especially around #Tesla #AI #Intel.
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December 15, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Another edition of the Business of America is out!
And we're talking #AI #Intel #Tesla in highlighting some recent scoops. I'll try to do a wrap of the year in the next edition.
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And we're talking #AI #Intel #Tesla in highlighting some recent scoops. I'll try to do a wrap of the year in the next edition.
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#TheBusinessofAmerica returns with another one about #Netflix, #WarnerBrosDiscovery, #streaming and a recap on #ReutersNEXT.
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More Twists than a Hollywood Movie
The Hollywood wars continued all throughout the weekend and into today -- with Paramount Skydance attemping to trump (word not used lightly) the bid by Netflix for Warner Bros Discovery in what would ...
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December 8, 2025 at 7:07 PM
#TheBusinessofAmerica returns with another one about #Netflix, #WarnerBrosDiscovery, #streaming and a recap on #ReutersNEXT.
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Ominous: here's what's going on with the #AI memory situation, which is approaching crisis levels.
"The memory shortage has now graduated from a component-level concern to a macroeconomic risk," said Sanchit Vir Gogia, CEO of tech advisory Greyhound Research.
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"The memory shortage has now graduated from a component-level concern to a macroeconomic risk," said Sanchit Vir Gogia, CEO of tech advisory Greyhound Research.
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The AI frenzy is driving a memory chip supply crisis
An acute global shortage of memory chips is forcing artificial intelligence and consumer-electronics companies to fight for dwindling supplies, as prices soar for the unglamorous but essential compone...
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December 3, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Ominous: here's what's going on with the #AI memory situation, which is approaching crisis levels.
"The memory shortage has now graduated from a component-level concern to a macroeconomic risk," said Sanchit Vir Gogia, CEO of tech advisory Greyhound Research.
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"The memory shortage has now graduated from a component-level concern to a macroeconomic risk," said Sanchit Vir Gogia, CEO of tech advisory Greyhound Research.
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Getting going here at #ReutersNEXT for the next two days.
December 3, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Getting going here at #ReutersNEXT for the next two days.
And we're back after a Turkey Day hiatus! Talking #BlackFriday and of course #ReutersNEXT and various and sundry else with another edition of The Business of America...
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Giving Thanks, and Reuters NEXT
For the past week the focus has been around what people are buying, if they're buying, and where. And the stress the consumer is experiencing cannot be ignored even as the holiday sales figures so far...
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December 1, 2025 at 5:42 PM
And we're back after a Turkey Day hiatus! Talking #BlackFriday and of course #ReutersNEXT and various and sundry else with another edition of The Business of America...
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this week's edition of The Business of America is here! And talking #walmart #retail and #bifurcation...
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Oh, Hey, the Government Reopened
Welp. The government is open again after a protracted standoff where almost nobody got what they wanted.
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November 17, 2025 at 5:59 PM
this week's edition of The Business of America is here! And talking #walmart #retail and #bifurcation...
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Reposted by David Gaffen 🇺🇸🕊️✡️
My guess is the only Jewish friends are the ones you have in your head. And if you DO have any Jewish friends, and they are Zionists, I doubt they feel safe enough around you to admit it, even though Zionism is, contrary to your ignorant view, Jewish allyship.
November 16, 2025 at 9:52 AM
My guess is the only Jewish friends are the ones you have in your head. And if you DO have any Jewish friends, and they are Zionists, I doubt they feel safe enough around you to admit it, even though Zionism is, contrary to your ignorant view, Jewish allyship.
Yes, it's Monday. So...another edition of your fair newsletter is here, talking #Metsera, #Thanksgiving, #Walmart and #consumersentiment. Enjoy!
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Everyone's In a Foul Mood
A few things came to a head over the week — not the least of which was the eventual consummation of a deal for biotech company Metsera by Pfizer after a series of bids from rival Novo Nordisk that got...
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November 10, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Yes, it's Monday. So...another edition of your fair newsletter is here, talking #Metsera, #Thanksgiving, #Walmart and #consumersentiment. Enjoy!
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It's Monday, which means another Business of America has landed! #Tylenol #AI #Metsera #OpenAI #Nvidia and anything else on my mind. Huzzah. Happy November.
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Buying Tylenol for Headaches
This may be the first time in history where someone bought Tylenol to give themselves a headache. But Kimberly Clark might have done it with a $40 billion deal to buy Kenvue, the Tylenol maker that ha...
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November 3, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Back with another version of The Business of America to talk - what else? - #earnings:
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Earnings, We Got a Truckload
We're headed into a monster week of earnings that will feature a total of 172 S&P 500 companies - including the technology, pharma and industrial giants. We'll see how the AI economy is chugging along...
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October 27, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Back with another version of The Business of America to talk - what else? - #earnings:
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Back today on the @reuters.com podcast talking #inflation #consumer #earnings. Check it out here:
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October 22, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Back today on the @reuters.com podcast talking #inflation #consumer #earnings. Check it out here:
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Appreciate the shout-out, @bartonlorimor.bsky.social ! Definitely a trend we continue to follow, and Hilton earnings today point to a similar ongoing trend. #earnings #wealtheffect #inflation
The @reuters.com World News podcast is a daily go-to in my morning.
Today, editor @davidgaffen.bsky.social in a segment on KPOP Demon Hunters merch not being ready until January had this insight that is bigger picture reporting than Netflix's Q3 earnings:
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Today, editor @davidgaffen.bsky.social in a segment on KPOP Demon Hunters merch not being ready until January had this insight that is bigger picture reporting than Netflix's Q3 earnings:
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October 22, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Appreciate the shout-out, @bartonlorimor.bsky.social ! Definitely a trend we continue to follow, and Hilton earnings today point to a similar ongoing trend. #earnings #wealtheffect #inflation
So...another edition of The Business of America hath arrived! And with that, we bring you bald-faced mentions of #taylorswift for no reason, plus #EA, #OpenAI, #tariffs, and other such and sundry. No edition next week - back Oct 20.
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It's Me. Hi. I'm the Problem.
Sometimes it's hard to keep just talking about tariffs, so it's good every few weeks when Taylor Swift releases another album that gives business writers something else to talk about besides that. The...
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October 6, 2025 at 5:28 PM
So...another edition of The Business of America hath arrived! And with that, we bring you bald-faced mentions of #taylorswift for no reason, plus #EA, #OpenAI, #tariffs, and other such and sundry. No edition next week - back Oct 20.
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Like clockwork. The next edition of the Business of America is back in a New York groove, people. we're talking the EA Acquisition, #EA #ElectronicArts, #tariffs, #trade, chips and whatever else.
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It's In the Game
Are leveraged buyouts on the cusp of another moment? It's a question that has to be asked after Electronic Arts — the video-game giant known for Madden NFL and a host of other games — said it was goin...
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September 29, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Like clockwork. The next edition of the Business of America is back in a New York groove, people. we're talking the EA Acquisition, #EA #ElectronicArts, #tariffs, #trade, chips and whatever else.
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Back with another edition of The Business of America here!
What's going on now? We're talking #Nvidia, #Hyundai, #Oracle and a few other things...
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What's going on now? We're talking #Nvidia, #Hyundai, #Oracle and a few other things...
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Fighting Over Chips
The relationship companies have between governments is only growing. China on Monday said Nvidia violated an anti-monopoly law, which means more investigations into the world's top chipmaker by market...
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September 15, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Back with another edition of The Business of America here!
What's going on now? We're talking #Nvidia, #Hyundai, #Oracle and a few other things...
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What's going on now? We're talking #Nvidia, #Hyundai, #Oracle and a few other things...
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The latest edition of the Business of America hath landed...
and so it's more more on #tesla and a Trillion dollars, and #Orsted #wind #hyundai #consumer and whatever else you wanna add. Read! Happy Monday!
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and so it's more more on #tesla and a Trillion dollars, and #Orsted #wind #hyundai #consumer and whatever else you wanna add. Read! Happy Monday!
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A Trillion Here, a Trillion There...
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September 8, 2025 at 5:05 PM