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By Adam Rifkin

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What Is Bariatric Surgery, and How Does It Work?

The man who put up $1.5 million to save 200 Syrian refugees

92% of Millennials Do Not Trust Financial Institutions for Guidance with Money Matters, according to a Facebook study

What Great Managers Do Daily

Healthcare spending grew 5.8% to $3.2 trillion in 2015 and was driven by expanding insurance coverage rather than increasing cost of care.

70% of wealthy families lose their wealth by the second generation, and a stunning 90% by the third.

Bots are the new apps. ~Satya Nadella

The New York Times saw a 96% loss in profits in Q3 2016. Here are the numbers behind their transition to digital media.

IBM has spent more than $4 billion buying a handful of companies with vast stores of medical data for Watson AI.

With $12 billion in annual revenues, Amazon's cloud is bigger than Microsoft, Google and IBM combined.

Vaccine with a cocktail of 50 types of cold viruses gives cold immunity in monkeys and cold vaccine human trials are next.

3% of American adults own half of the guns in the US.

Orange juice is being called a massive scam, and now it's disappearing from breakfast in America.

Most Millennials have less than $1000 in savings.

The Economics of LEGO Piece Pricing

Walmart's online sales were $13.7 billion in fiscal 2015, while Amazon's sales in 2015 were $107 billion. So Walmart acquired Jet for $3b.

Costco Connection is the largest circulation print monthly magazine in the USA, with 8.6 million subscribers.

ESPN lost 4 million subscribers in the past year.

Cost burdened renters (those who spend at least 30% of their income on rent) nationwide skyrocketed from 24% in 1960 to 49% in 2014.

Which Professional Sports Leagues Make the Most Money? Top Leagues by Revenue...

Tally is a new app trying to fix the $1 trillion credit card debt problem by offering personal loans through their app.

Only 4 Women Are in the 50 Highest Rated CEOs at Glassdoor

Why do startups fail? Researchers examined 200 postmortems to help pinpoint the underlying reasons

Under Armour Stephen Curry Two sneaker sales are up 350 percent in 2016.

Ritual reinvents vitamins with sustained release beaded oil capsules to go after the $80 billion industry. US consumes 1.5b vitamins daily.

America's Wealthiest Business Schools

April 2016: Apple is close to selling its billionth iPhone

Magazines Push Back On "Big Candy" In Checkout Lines

The Super Bowl ad about opioid constipation made perfect business sense for the pharmaceutical company that paid for it.

Costco has become one of America's favorite places to buy a car thanks to one huge perk: Fixed prices.

The Dark Side of the Truffle Trade

10 highest-grossing sci-fi movies ever after adjusting for inflation

Microloans Don’t Solve Poverty

How AT&T Execs Took Over the Red Cross and Hurt its Ability to Help People

The Search For The Paleo Sleep Schedule

3 Radical Ideas To Totally Disrupt Air Travel - process design

The Economics of Male Birth Control

A Pumpkin-Pie Shortage Is Looming Thanks to Heavy Summer Rains

Is busking on the NYC subway more lucrative than streaming on Spotify?

Corporate America is not on a path to gender equality.

Jessica Simpson, America’s Retail Queen

Climate Change Made Pumpkin Beer Happen Sooner This Year

Google Is 2 Billion Lines of Code—And It's All in One Place

This is why Canadian maple syrup is crazy expensive

The siege of Herbalife

The lottery is a tax. An inefficient, regressive, and exploitative tax.

Quinoa should be taking over the world. This is why it isn’t.

Checking fantasy football at work will cost companies $16 billion in 2015, but it's worth it to them because it increases productivity.

Chobani Spawned the Greek Yogurt Craze, Starting With One Small New York Factory

How Radio Explains America: 59% of Americans listen to the radio once a day and 91% do so weekly.

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