Avert your eyes! My Sunday morning look at incompetency, corruption and policy failures: • The fast-food industry claims the California minimum wage law is costing jobs. Its numbers are fake: Here’s something you might want to know about this claim. It’s baloney, sliced thick. In fact, from September through January, the period covered by the ad, fast-food...

The weekend is here! Pour yourself a mug of  coffee, grab a seat outside, and get ready for our longer-form weekend reads: • The ‘bottom whisperer’ will see you now. Back there. Proctologist Evan Goldstein has made a life — and a fancy living — off anal interventions, drawing ardent fans and curious skeptics. (Washington Post) • The Curious Case Of...

     This week, we speak with Erika Ayers Badan, CEO of Food52. She previously served as the CEO of Barstool Sports. Before joining Barstool in 2016, Ayers held leadership positions at Microsoft, AOL, Demand Media and Yahoo. She was named one of Forbes’ Most Powerful Women in Sports. Her new book is “Nobody Cares About Your Career: Why Failure...

  @TBPInvictus here A few days ago, Barry and I detailed how unscrupulous bad actors had taken Not Seasonally Adjusted data to falsely claim that California’s new $20/hour minimum wage had cost the state almost 10,000 quick-serve restaurant (QSR) jobs. I wrote: It appears to me that the Journal got that number from BLS. However, BLS only offers...

    At the Money: Gold, Bitcoin & Other Thematic Investments (June 12, 2024) How should you think about thematic investing? What place does Gold or Bitcoin, or countries like India and Japan have in your portfolio? Jan van Eck is CEO of Van Eck Funds, which oversees $75 billion in ETFs, discusses how to add an additional thematic investment...

    The transcript from this week’s, MiB: Peter Mallouk, Creative Planning CEO, is below. You can stream and download our full conversation, including any podcast extras, on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and Bloomberg. All of our earlier podcasts on your favorite pod hosts can be found here. ~~~ Bloomberg Audio Studios, podcasts, radio...