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Millennials, Costco is calling you

I remember my very first time walking into a Costco store. I was curious but also a little bemused by the displays, and I didn’t know quite what to make of the throngs of oversize shopping carts that had formed around a table of sweatpants. As a kid, I went on trips with my mom to our local BJ’s Wholesale ...

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The stock market enters late-stage fanaticism

Even in this crazy market, what to make of a stock that’s risen more than 5,000% since November? I’m not talking about GameStop Corp or AMC Entertainment. Alpine 4 Holdings Inc is a tiny company that few people, myself included, had heard of until I stumbled upon a disclosure it filed late on a recent Friday afternoon. I posed a ...

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Supreme court term limits could backfire

Justice Stephen Breyer is now the subject of a lobbying campaign to get him to step down — a campaign being conducted by his fans. They’re responding to a peculiar feature of US government: Vast swaths of public policy depend less on the outcome of elections than on a few elderly lawyers’ retirement plans and health. It’s not a situation ...

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