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Tesla CEO Elon Musk has bought Twitter for $44 Billion - in a deal that has surprised many and also not surprised many as well. The deal, which has been in the works for a couple of weeks, sets up stark changes across the political and social landscape. What is going to happen next?

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Tesla is facing several headwinds to its financial performance, including price increases for raw materials, production constraints with the shutdown of its Shanghai factory, and the distraction of Elon Musk's Twitter takeover bid. With so much going on at the moment what is going to happen after Tesla's earnings call?

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Taco Bell has re-released its popular Mexican Pizza product to much fanfare and excitment. First brought to market in 1985, the Mexican Pizza has been on and off the Taco Bell menu for decades. The pandemic supply chain issues meant that the product had to be removed again, but Taco Bell has brought it back, understanding demand, and cloaked its return with brand codes that a certain demographic is sure to love.

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Peloton has just announced that starting June 1 it will be raising subscription fee pricing for its streaming content while lowering the price of bikes and other workout equipment. All this is in response to the new CEO's strategy for achieving scale and delivering more valuable content.

But this raises a question: what happens to existing customers? Are they grandfathered in and locked into their old pricing structure? Or is Peloton neglecting its old customer base in pursuit of a new one?

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Etsy, the popular retail platform, has announced it wants to raise seller transaction fees from 5% to 6%, angering sellers on the platform. Now, more than 14,000 sellers are striking in response to the move.

Has Etsy shot itself in the foot? Has it made the right call by imposing its new fees on sellers? What is Etsy doing for sellers on the platform in exchange for the higher fees?

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Walmart has announced that it will be bumping up salaries for truck drivers to $110,000 per year - and is incentivizing staff from other departments to take a 12-week course to learn to become a certified truck driver and join its in-house fleet.

While this is great news for the staff members getting more money for an important job, it is important to think about the incidence of this tactic - who does this cost fall on? Walmart? The consumer?

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Is Farfetch positioning itself to become the Amazon of the luxury sector with its investment in Neiman Marcus? How significant is a $200 million injection into the struggling brick-and-mortar luxury retailer?

Having IPO'd in 2018, Farfetch is showing great financials and incredible levels of profit in its most recent financial disclosures - which speaks to how much demand for luxury products there is in an e-commerce setting. But buying luxury online is still not a frictionless experience. Can Farfetch continue to work to fix this perception?

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Using power and money to influence society and business outcomes is nearly a textbook definition for what an Oligarch is and does - so, is Elon Musk displaying Oligarch-like behavior? After the news that Elon Musk has taken a nearly 10% stake in Twitter, questions are coming up around his intentions with such a significant stake in the social media platform - and whether he'll use his newfound position as a force for good, or something else.

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Starbucks, with returning CEO Howard Schultz at the helm, has announced that it will be stopping its share buyback program and intends to reinvest that excess cash back into workers and stores. The question is whether this is just a PR tactic or whether there is real intent to address some of the labor and operational issues the company is facing. Even without the suspension, doesn't Starbucks have enough free cash to reinvest?

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Amazon workers at the company's JFK8 facility in Staten Island have voted to form the company's first U.S. union in a decision that disrupts Amazon's traditional way of doing business and hiring infrastructure. What are the benefits of unionization and how does this decision change Amazon's desirability as a hiring organization in the region?

New York City is one of the largest economies in the world, and this decision to form a union by the workers of Amazon will be interesting to watch over the next few years - and also to watch how Amazon treats this facility compared to other facilities that have not unionized.

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