The race to offer cheaper weight loss drugs is running into some legal limits. Tellahalth company Hims and Hers announced a cheaper version of Novo's Waggoi weight loss pill at the beginning of February. Now, it would cost $49 to start, which is far less than the $149 Novo sells the branded pill for, but it pulled the drug after legal and regulatory risks escalated.Now, legally, they're allowed to create a compounded version of a drug if they are saying they're adjusting the formula for quote personalized p ...

When I was in middle school, I heard a uh my basketball my basketball coach say that professional basketball players will close their eyes and visualize themselves making free throws and it increases their stats of how many free throws that they threw that they made. And I just thought that was so fascinating and I'm like how can I translate that into my own life. So, I do a variety of visualization u micromanifestations.Um, one of them is I have an alarm that goes off on my phone three times a day and um a ...

I was not irresponsible when I started kit. And what I mean by that is I wasn't putting it all on red or black. Like I didn't I had other streams of income.I was working side jobs. I was I I what like for example um there was like most people when they have an accessory brand or a fashion brand, they attend these trade shows. The trade shows can cost like $10,000 to do them.And I couldn't afford that. And so what I did was I I called up a showroom and I said,"I will work for you for free and I will sell eve ...

Stripe is lining up a tender offer that would value the company north of $140 billion. Now, that's a 30% jump from its last valuation in September when Stripe bought back shares at a major rebound from the $50 billion that it was worth during its 2023 fund raise. Now, this tender is a way to give employees and early investors liquidity without an IPO.And that's the key here. Stripe is one of the most closely watched public market candidates in tech, but it keeps finding ways to reward shareholders while sta ...

Kalshi won big on Super Bowl Sunday, hosting over $1 billion in trading volumes. CEO and co-founder Tarek Mansour discusses prediction markets, insider trading concerns, and market surveillance. President Trump’s effort to limit institutional investors buying single family homes has run into snags on Capitol Hill. RXR Chairman and CEO Scott Rechler discusses the initiative, affordable housing, and NYC’s uptick in office leasing and luxury home sales. In the latest reports on big tech’s AI capital expenditur ...

Ahead of the lunar new year next week, a number of Chinese AI model makers are gearing up for some big launches with tech stocks there showing signs of some renewed momentum. Our dear DOSA has more on that in today's tech check. Morning D. >> Hey, good morning Carl.So here in the US, AI progress it seems to spook the markets while in China they fuel a rally. Now part of the reason why may be this huge delta in spending. American big tech it's on track to spend well over half a trillion dollars on the AI bui ...

you know, you quoted that we did over a billion in the Super Bowl. Uh, you know, our culture markets were huge this weekend. Uh, you know, who's what Bad Bunny was going to perform was over $und00 million in trading.The second thing is it's a market where people are trading against each other. There's no house. And you know, the reason why people are flocking to prediction markets, especially Kalshi, is that, you know, our incentive as a company, we win when the customers win.We don't win when the customers ...

If if Bitcoin falls 90% for the next four years, we'll refinance the debt. >> You refinance where, Michael. >> We'll just roll it forward.I mean, again, >> but you you you think banks would lend to you at that point. >> Yeah. Because because the volatility of Bitcoin is such that it's always going to be value.Look, you're at 68,000 right now. Literally has to fall to 8,000. Then we just refinance the debt.If you think it's going to zero, then we'll deal with that. But I don't think it's going to zero. And I ...

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Retail sales. These are December numbers. Headline expected up 4/10 comes in light.Only zero goose egg unchanged. That would equal uh where we were. Well, actually to find a lower number, you're going all the way back to May of last year when it was down 8/10.That's the last negative number we had. So, that's unchanged. If you strip out autos, it remains unchanged. And if you strip out autos and gas, it also remains unchanged.The control group or the core retail sales comes in at down onetenth of a percent. ...