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In Jack Ma vs. the Chinese government, China wins

Ant Financial was set to be the biggest IPO in history last year, before founder Jack Ma’s criticism of the Chinese government in October angered the administration and derailed the offering altogether. Since then, Ma has been scrabbling together his olive branches in the hopes of getting back into regulators’ good graces. And on Wednesday, […]

Of all the jobs the U.S. workforce lost in December, 100% belonged to women

Good morning, Broadsheet readers! Kamala Harris covers Vogue, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi weighs impeachment, and 100% of the jobs the economy lost last month belonged to—you guessed it—women. Have a productive Monday. – Keeping it ? Amid last week’s chaos, Friday arrived with another piece of somber news. This headline from Fortune‘s Maria Aspan says […]

With $30,000 Bitcoin in sight, analysts wonder how high it could go

Bitcoin is on track for its longest monthly winning streak in more than a year after touching a record above $28,000 over the weekend. The largest cryptocurrency reached an all-time high of $28,365 on Sunday before paring some of the advance, according to a composite of prices compiled by Bloomberg. The run of outsized returns […]