This year’s third quarter alone “featured the richest stretch of private equity (PE) dealmaking in years,” The Wall Street Journal said, led by the astonishing $55-billion acquisition of game maker Electronic Arts by a coalition of PE firms.
Category: 14 October 2025
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TOP TREND 2023, OFFICE BUILDING BUST: ‘TOO HISTORIC TO TEAR DOWN, TOO COSTLY TO SAVE’
A growing number of cities face a dilemma, according to The Wall Street Journal: historic office towers that hold a portion of the city’s identity are no longer able to pay their own way and fail to qualify for conversion to other uses, but preservationists militate against blowing them up or tearing them down.
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AMERICA, WE HAVE A PROBLEM
For most Americans, and certainly for baby boomers, we remember the first major exposé before Congress during the Church Committee hearings, when William Colby, the head of the CIA admitted under oath that the agency had its tentacles in much of the American mainstream media and promulgated bogus stories for citizens to consume.
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HOW EXERCISE HELPS MAINTAIN HEALTHY VITAMIN D LEVELS IN THE WINTERTIME
During winter in northern climates, sunlight is too weak to trigger vitamin D production, leaving many people — especially those with excess body fat — at risk for deficiency
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TRUMP’S EVERYWHERE WAR: INSURRECTION AGAINST THE CONSTITUTION
When the government can label anyone or anything an enemy in order to wage war, we are all in danger.
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NOBEL PEACE PRIZES AND OTHER DELUSIONS
On Friday morning I jumped out of bed just before 5 am Eastern US time full of fear that President Donald Trump might have become the declared recipient of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, following in the footsteps of noted warmonger President Barack Obama, who is fondly remembered for also institutionalizing the killing the American citizens overseas whom he targeted in weekly White House staff meetings.
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SMART “BANDAGE” HEALS TISSUE DAMAGE 25 PERCENT FASTER
Researchers at the University of California at Santa Cruz have created “A-Heal,” an intelligent device worn over a wound that monitors and speeds healing.
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FOUR DAYS ON JUNK FOOD AND YOUR MEMORY GOES HAYWIRE
Eating mostly a high-fat, junk food diet for just four days can disrupt your ability to remember things, according to a study from the University of North Carolina.
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TURNING OFF PAIN WITHOUT CAUSING SIDE EFFECTS
Pain, whether temporary from an injury or chronic, is one of the hardest medical problems to treat safely. Now researchers at New York University’s Pain Research Center have found a biochemical “switch” that seems to shut off pain while doing no other harm.
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CIRCULAR DEALS FUEL FEARS OF INFLATED AI VALUATIONS
After Nvidia recently agreed to invest as much as $100 billion in OpenAI to help the company build a massive AI data center, OpenAI announced it would buy Nvidia AI chips to power the center.