Brian Boyle

brian@thedailyupside.com

Brian Boyle (he/him) is Lead Reporter at The Daily Upside. His writing has previously appeared in outlets such as Vice, Slate, and The Los Angeles Times, where he was a contributing writer on the opinion section. He lives in Los Angeles.

Inflation & Prices

The US is Making Progress on Inflation, Depending on How You Look at It

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Another month, another Consumer Price Index inflation report, the show-stopping data dump of our inflation-weary universe.

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Industrials

Boeing Reveals Just How Bad a Year it Had

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It’s basic Newtonian physics, as Boeing just learned: When the sky falls for a company, so, too, will the bottom line.

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Hedge Funds

Bill Ackman’s Pershing Square Wants to Be the Next Berkshire

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Pershing Square has announced a formal bid for Howard Hughes, the real estate developer where Ackman served as chairman for over a decade.

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Social Media

Advertisers Worry Facebook May Become X

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Advertising big wigs say they may flee Meta platforms if their brands appear next to toxic content. But where else would they go?

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Artificial Intelligence

Biden Administration Eyes Data Center Regulations

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Which way Trump will lean on the issue is difficult to say, though tech companies have worked hard to curry the incoming president’s favor.

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Healthcare

AI Wants to be the Future of Drug Discovery

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Novo Nordisk on Wednesday announced an expanded deal with healthtech firm Valo Health to use AI to fuel drug discovery.

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Artificial Intelligence

Nvidia, Anthropic Refuel the AI Hype Train

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Nvidia, the chipmaking king, has announced a slew of consumer-focused hardware, including a $3,000 “personal AI supercomputer” called Digits.

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Media & Entertainment

Disney and Fubo Team Up to Win Live TV

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The deal puts an end to Fubo’s ongoing lawsuit that sought to block Disney’s efforts to build Venu Sports with Fox and Warner Bros. Discovery.

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Private Equity

Will Private Equity Fuel a Big Year for IPOs?

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As the New Year rolls in, Wall Street is preparing for a slew of listing announcements from private equity-backed firms.

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International Economics

Increased Geopolitical Tensions Are Taking a Toll on Global Companies

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With military conflict continuing across the globe, and the world’s superpowers locked in a stare-down, it’s not easy being a global business

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Media & Entertainment

Will 2025 be the Year Regulation Comes for Sports Betting?

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The odds of an increase in regulation of the massive, and growing, sports-betting industry may be shifting.

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Industrials

Loser of 2024: Boeing

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There were plenty of business losers in 2024, but only one for whom the sky was literally falling. In short: Boeing had a bad year.

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Consumer

Is the Restaurant Industry at the End of an Era?

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Across-the-board inflation — including food costs, labor costs, and real estate costs — is pummeling restaurants. Can the industry survive?

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Media & Entertainment

2024: The Year Streamers Cracked Live Programming

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For years, traditional cable had one trump card against the upstart streamers devouring their business: live programming. Not anymore.

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Media & Entertainment

2024: The Year YouTube Became TV

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YouTube may have started off as a platform for small screens, but now it’s increasingly dominating the living room TV.

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Media & Entertainment

2024: The Year Legacy Media Gave Up on Cable

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In 2024, legacy media giants like Disney and NBCUniversal finally had enough with cable — and started making their own off-ramps.

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Economics

A Government Shutdown May Be Looming. What Does That Actually Mean?

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Will a shutdown happen? Maybe not. But what if it does? What would a holiday season shutdown actually mean?

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International Economics

Does a Popular Internet Router Pose a National Security Threat?

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If similar cases are a guide, the US has given equal weight to both known and hypothetical threats to national security.

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Inflation & Prices

The Fed Marches into a Murky New Era

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Inflation is definitely looking like a “two-handle” problem. That’s investor-speak for a rate below 3% but above the Fed’s 2% target.

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Economics

The Mental Health Crisis is Slamming Workplaces

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Consensus opinion seems to be that a mental health crisis is plaguing the world. And it turns out, good mental health makes wealth.

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