Some entrepreneurs are scrutinizing their banking relationships and moving their funds. smart piece by WSJ’s Ruth Simon: wsj.com/articles/small…

Most S&P 500 CEOs finished the year with less pay than initially awarded; Elon Musk’s $10 billion hole. The WSJ CEO pay rankings are out, by Inti Pacheco: wsj.com/articles/ceo-p… cdn.uploads.micro.blog/1399/2023/bf26…

Another remarkable piece on Epstein by Khadeeja Safdar & Emily Glazer: Bill Gates had an affair with a Russian bridge player around 2010. Then Jeffrey Epstein found out. wsj.com/articles/jeffr… on The Wall Street Journal

This is horrifying (& proves the value of strong reporting): Instagram’s algorithms helped a vast pedophile network thrive; the company says it is improving internal controls. wsj.com/articles/insta…

#IStandWithEvan #FreeEvan #JournalismIsNotaCrime

Eye-opening piece from Lisa Bannon: The use of AI in hospitals is creating tension between the nurses and the machines. “The computer doesn’t know the patient is in out-of-control pain.” wsj.com/articles/ai-me… via The Wall Street Journal

As always, James Mackintosh cuts through to the crux: Forget the Fed and focus on the economy wsj.com/articles/forge…

As always, James Mackintosh cuts through to the crux: Forget the Fed and focus on the economy wsj.com/articles/forge…

Fascinating piece from Bob Tita & John Keilman: The thousands of lawsuits facing 3M could cut reshape the company that makes thousands of products, from Scotch tape to Post-It notes wsj.com/articles/at-3m…

Another week has passed, and it's another one where Evan is locked up for just doing his job. It was wrong on day one, and it is wrong today. Journalism is not a crime. #FreeEvan wsj.com/news/evan-gers…

Another peek into Bill Gates's world, from Khadeeja Safdar & Emily Glazer: Security firm asked some women applying for jobs at his private office about affairs, porn preference, other explicit topics. Gates's office called such questioning unacceptable wsj.com/articles/bill-…

Chiefs at Hertz, Peloton, Pinterest & a few others got pay packages over $100 million in 2022, more than Apple's Tim Cook. That's $48,000 an hour (over a 40-hour week), or $801 a minute. wsj.com/articles/meet-… WSJ Business News $bx $pton $htz $pins $goog $aapl $law

Tune in to the read-a-thon of Evan Gershkovich's excellent work, live from the National Press Club. Evan remains jailed in Russia for doing his job — hear just how good he is at it. youtube.com/watch?v=12HdnU…

An 1866 law promised freed slaves the same rights as whites. Conservative activists say it bars many corporate diversity programs — and they’re trying to prove it in court. wsj.com/articles/the-l…

Whoops — wrong link. Here's the right one: An 1866 law promised freed slaves the same rights as whites. Conservative activists say it bars many corporate diversity programs — and they’re trying to prove it in court. My latest, w/ Lauren Weber, in the WSJ: wsj.com/articles/diver…

Inside a Sales Army Turning a Tax Break Into a Modern-Day Gold Rush — great reporting from Ruth Simon & Richard Rubin, two of the best in the business: wsj.com/business/entre… #ERC #taxes @richardrubindc @rsimon18

And you thought your 401K loan was big... good reporting here by Micah Maidenberg Elon Musk tapped SpaceX, the rocket maker he runs, for a $1 billion loan around the time he was acquiring the social-media company formerly known as Twitter  wsj.com/business/deals… via The Wall Street Journal

Big tech layoffs keep coming, but the workforce remains huge. Revenue rose a lot too. The numbers are remarkable — Amazon’s workforce has doubled, and several other FANG companies are 50% bigger than they were. My latest WSJ, w/ Alana Pipe’s A+ charts: wsj.com/economy/jobs/t…

Warner Bros. Discovery shares have slumped since the merger. CEO David Zaslav got a 26% raise last year, to $50 million. My latest with Joe Flint  — wsj.com/business/media… via The Wall Street Journal $WBD

Since Elon Musk’s multibillion-dollar Tesla pay package from 2018 came to light, more CEOs have gotten outsize pay deals and those packages have been bigger—with the potential to keep growing on.wsj.com/44SzEGq