Woke Pepsi spent years greenwashing, virtue signaling — and blowing billions on stock buybacks to fizz its share price. Paul Singer’s ruthless Elliott Investment Management has taken note.
Pepsi’s fate couldn’t happen to a more deserving management.
Kennedy Is Unfit. Media’s Bias Made Him Possible
The CDC and FDA were once the gold standard of public health. Smallpox eradicated. Polio defeated. Frances Kelsey standing up to Big Pharma and sparing America the Thalidomide tragedy.
Today, those same agencies are politicized, distrusted, and weaponized. The media’s selective outrage helped get us here.
All About Ilhan Omar’s 300,000 Benjamins
“It’s all about the Benjamins, baby.” That was Ilhan Omar’s infamous 2019 tweet alleging Jews controlled Congress.
Now Omar’s own disclosures show she and her husband may be sitting on as much as $30 million — wealth built largely from two businesses valued at no more than $51,000 just a year earlier.
That’s 300,000 Benjamins, baby. Here’s why Omar’s sudden fortune matters.
David Geffen and the Illusions of Purchased Love
Billionaire music impresario David Geffen’s messy divorce is more than gossip — it’s a reminder of how Hollywood, media, and money romanticize illusions that never hold up. From Pretty Woman to Seeking Arrangements, many mistakenly believe money can buy love. As Geffen learned the hard way — it can’t.
Cracker Barrel and the Decline of American Dining
Social media is aghast over Cracker Barrel’s new logo. But the bigger story is more troubling: chains cutting corners, portions shrinking, ingredients cheapened, and customers treated like ATM machines.
My Morning MVP: QB Patrick Mahomes’ Can of Joe
Patrick Mahomes has already established himself as one of the greatest quarterbacks in NFL history. In short order, he could also be more closely associated with coffee than Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol.
Mahomes helped concoct far superior coffee beverages.
Fuzzy Math, Fat Dividends, Put Ford Family First
The Ford family once tightened their belts to protect their company. Today? They’re milking it with generous dividends.
Wall Street Journal columnist Jonathan Weil — the first reporter to question Enron’s finances and a relentless critic of private equity’s “fishy” accounting — has sounded the alarm on Ford’s dividend math.
Weil’s take? Ford’s “adjusted free cash flow” is little more than cash flow before bad stuff. Wall Street has a less charitable term for Ford’s financial legerdemain.
How Ulysses ‘Crazy Legs’ Curtis Changed My Life
To Toronto Argonauts football fans he was Ulysses ‘Crazy Legs’ Curtis, one of the greatest running backs of his day. To me, he was my junior high gym teacher — the intimidating, muscular man who barked, “You boys are the poorest excuse for the male species I’ve ever met” — and then inspired me to build the discipline and pushup prowess that shaped my life.
Only today did I learn how legendary Curtis truly was.
Protect Children From Mark Zuckerberg’s Greed
Mark Zuckerberg spent $110M to wall himself off from his Silicon Valley neighbors. He could have used some of his billions to wall children off from Meta’s chatbots.
Reuters uncovered internal guidelines that allowed bots to flirt with kids and even write racist screeds. Meta’s response? The same rinse-and-repeat PR denial we’ve heard for years.
So far, only rock legend Neil Young has expressed outrage — and bolted from Facebook.
Enron Sleuth Jonathan Weil’s Private Equity Alarm
Pension funds. University endowments. Your retirement account. The Wall Street Journal reporter who first exposed Enron warns they could be the next victims of private equity’s “fishy” accounting.