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Private Equity Hospitals Charged $669 More Per Patient. Costs Did Not Fall.

A Campaign for Accountability analysis comparing seventy-one private equity-owned hospitals with seventy-one closely matched peers found that PE-owned hospitals collected $669 more in operating profit per patient after acquisition. Their operating costs per patient showed no statistically significant change.

By Margaret Holloway October 9, 2026

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Manufacturers Are Coming Home. The Workers Are Not There Yet.

Thirty-six percent of OEM manufacturers had reshored or were actively reshoring in 2026, up from twenty-nine percent in 2025, according to the Reshoring Initiative's second annual survey. The constraint is not capital. Sixty-six percent of respondents rated hiring skilled technicians as very difficult or at crisis levels.

By Daniel Okafor October 9, 2026

Workers on a manufacturing production floor

The Chip Fabs Are Running. The Supply Chain Around Them Is Not Built Yet.

By Daniel Okafor October 9, 2026

A glass-fronted TSMC fab building lit up at dusk beside a road streaked with car light trails, in Taiwan.

The Return-to-Office Mandate Has a New Enforcement Problem

By Thomas Gutierrez October 9, 2026

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The Office Building Becomes the Apartment Building. The Financing Is Finally There.

By Margaret Holloway October 9, 2026

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Nine Million Borrowers Are in Default on Student Loans. Collections Are Coming.

By Thomas Gutierrez October 9, 2026

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The News Business Is Cutting Again. The Reasons Have Not Changed.

By Margaret Holloway October 9, 2026

A black-and-white photograph of a Manhattan newsstand in 1935, its racks and awning covered with newspapers and magazines, beneath signs for cigars and malted milk.

McClatchy Replaced Journalists With an AI Content Lab. The Articles Are Already Running.

By Alison Acosta October 9, 2026

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A Clinical AI Reads Every Patient's Chart Every Morning. Most Hospitals Don't.

By Daniel Okafor October 9, 2026

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The Government Is Paying $50 a Month for Ozempic. Insurers Are Not Keeping Up.

By Margaret Holloway October 9, 2026

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The Interest Bill Came to $1.36 Trillion. That Is More Than Medicaid.

By Margaret Holloway October 9, 2026

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Delta Will Absorb $6 Billion More for Fuel This Year. Its Profit Forecast Has Fallen by About a Quarter Since July.

By Cory Chamberlain October 9, 2026

Seen from above, a white Delta Air Lines jet with a red and blue tail flies low over an airport taxiway, passing over an Aeromexico airliner on the ground.

The Workforce Shrank. The Jobs Did Not.

By Daniel Okafor October 9, 2026

Construction workers on a building site

Google Wants to Be the Only Agent You Need at Work

By Alison Acosta October 9, 2026

An open office with people collaborating at laptops

Humana Had 20 Per Cent of Its Medicare Members in Four-Star Plans. Next Year It Will Have 95 Per Cent.

By Cory Chamberlain October 9, 2026

An older woman in a pink top and an older man in a patterned shirt listen as a doctor in a white coat with a stethoscope shows them a clipboard.

The Pentagon and Lockheed Are Discussing a Decade of F-35s. The Hard Part Is the Spare Parts.

By Cory Chamberlain October 9, 2026

Two maintainers, one in dark blue coveralls and one in a light jacket and dark blue trousers, reach up to the underside of a grey F-35A fighter numbered 5172 on a flight line, with a row of other F-35s and uniformed airmen behind them.

Viatris Was Built on Generics. It Is Paying $1.65 Billion for Two Pain Drugs That Will Face Them.

By Cory Chamberlain October 9, 2026

Four surgeons in blue gowns, caps and masks, two wearing magnifying headlamps, lean over a patient during an operation in a brightly lit operating room.

SpaceX Is Buying Airwaves That Pass Through Walls. Shares in America's Three Big Carriers Tumbled.

By Cory Chamberlain October 9, 2026

A white Falcon 9 rocket climbs through a pale blue sky on a bright column of orange flame trailing grey exhaust.

The S&P 500 Is Reporting Its Highest Profit Margin in at Least Fifteen Years

By Margaret Holloway October 9, 2026

The words New York Stock Exchange carved into the facade above the Corinthian columns of the exchange building on Broad Street.

The AI Bill Has Found Its Finance Department

By Alison Acosta October 9, 2026

A spreadsheet on a laptop showing financial data and budget figures