Last Semafor scoop of the week, I think from me and Liz Hoffman : Magic Johnson is in talks to buy a stake in the Las Vegas Raiders. semafor.com/article/10/21/…

AMLO is really showing a penchant for M&A reporting. The president is hard to compete against!

A reminder to sign up here semafor.com/newsletters and I'll be back on Tuesday. 👋

If you haven't seen joe posner's insanely good video on the unsung heroes of the private space race, watch it immediately:
youtube.com/watch?v=rga4gj…

And incredible colleagues wrote launch-week stories I devoured:

Reed Albergotti on an accident at SpaceX semafor.com/article/10/18/…

Ben Smith on the identity crisis at NYT semafor.com/article/10/18/…

Louise Matsakis on TikTok's e-commerce ambitions semafor.com/article/10/19/…

We also highlighted some of our favorite stuff from competitors, including Miriam Gottfried's scoop on the MSD/BDT merger and a delightful review by Max Abelson of John Mack's memoir bloomberg.com/news/features/…

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Some federal officials sold stock in January 2020 when the government began mobilizing against Covid. Others later bought shares as a market-rescue plan was taking shape. wsj.com/articles/covid… via The Wall Street Journal

BofA on 5 of these 6 debt deals...👀

More reporting from credit colleagues Jill R. Shah claire ruckin

The president of the St. Louis Fed spoke at a closed-press, off-record, invite-only event that Citi hosted and asked its clients to.

Against Fed rules? Unclear, though we go through them in the story. Bad look? Definitely, a range of people said.

nytimes.com/2022/10/20/bus…

Scoop: TikTok is planning to become an e-commerce giant in America by replicating the same tactics ByteDance used in China semafor.com/article/10/19/…