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Beyond Meat Reverse Split 2026: How a $14B IPO Story Collapsed
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The $14 Billion Story That Ate Itself: How Beyond Meat Went From the Decade’s Hottest IPO to a 1-for-30 Reverse Split

Beyond Meat, Inc. (NASDAQ: BYND) announced on Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2026, that its board had selected a 1-for-30 reverse stock split, consolidating every 30 shares into one in an effort to regain compliance with Nasdaq’s minimum bid price requirement. The split takes effect at 11:59 p.m. Eastern on Aug. 13, with split-adjusted trading beginning Aug....

Cheap Drones, Crowded Skies: Can the U.S. Tell Friend From Foe?
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The Great Equalizer Comes Home: Cheap Drones, Crowded Skies, and No Way to Tell Friend From Foe

Over eleven weeks this summer, the FBI seized more than 700 drones  the largest federal drone enforcement operation in American history. Agents worked restricted airspace around World Cup stadiums in eleven cities, tracked operators to their homes, and filed federal charges. It was, by any measure, the most concentrated counter-drone effort the country has ever...

France Bans Cold Calls Aug. 11 — Would the U.S. Follow?
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France Bans Cold Calls. Would the United States Follow — and Who Would Pay the Bill?

France’s ban on unsolicited telemarketing calls takes effect Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2026, replacing the country’s opt-out registry with a rule that requires businesses to obtain a consumer’s consent before dialing. Individuals who place illegal calls face fines up to €75,000 (about $87,000) per call. Companies face up to €375,000 (about $435,000) per call. The law,...

dsa-2026-midterm-elections
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85 Days Out: The DSA Is on the November Ballot, and Both Parties Think That Helps Them

Eighty-five days before Americans vote on November 3, the sharpest unresolved question in American politics is not which party controls Congress. It is which faction controls the Democratic Party — and whether the answer costs Democrats the majorities they are otherwise favored to win. The Democratic Socialists of America entered this cycle with two members...

Walmart's Vizio Account Requirement at Five Months
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Five Months In: Walmart’s Vizio Account Requirement and the Race to Buy Consumer Data

Since mid-March 2026, Walmart has required owners of select new Vizio televisions to sign in with a Walmart account before they can finish setting up the television or use its smart features. The retailer announced the change on March 23, 2026, at the IAB NewFronts, the annual event where media companies pitch advertisers on the...

Record Margin Debt 2026: What $1.5 Trillion Has Historically Meant for Markets
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The Canary in the Coal Mine: Retail Margin Debt Hits a Record $1.5 Trillion

American investors now owe their brokers a record $1.5 trillion. That figure comes from the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority’s margin statistics, which reported $1,502,072 million in debit balances in customers’ securities margin accounts for June 2026. It was a 6.1% increase from May and a 49.0% increase from a year earlier, and the highest reading...

LendingTree Vacancy Report: 14.5M Empty Homes, 1.5M in Florida Alone
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14.5 Million Empty Homes, Fewer Than 800,000 for Sale: What LendingTree’s Vacancy Report Actually Says About Prices

Intro LendingTree released a national housing vacancy study on July 7, 2026, finding that roughly 14.5 million U.S. homes — about one in ten housing units — sit vacant. Florida alone accounts for approximately 1.5 million of them, nearly as many as the other nine states in the top-ten vacancy ranking combined. The headline number...

Fauci Invokes Fifth Over 100 Times: Can Biden's Pardon Protect Him?
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Fauci Invoked the Fifth More Than 100 Times. The Real Fight Is Over Whether His Pardon Let Him.

Dr. Anthony Fauci sat before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on Wednesday, July 29, delivered an opening statement, and then said almost nothing else for more than two hours. Under subpoena from committee chairman Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases invoked his...

Did Citadel Manipulate the AI Selloff? What the Situational Awareness Timeline Shows
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A Rate-Hike Call, a Margin Call, and a $16 Billion Block Trade: What the Citadel–Situational Awareness Timeline Does and Does Not Show

Within a span of four trading days at the end of July, three things happened in sequence. A senior strategist at Citadel Securities publicly argued that the Federal Reserve should surprise markets with an interest rate increase. The Federal Reserve declined to do so. And Citadel — the hedge fund founded by the same man,...

Musk Acquires APR Energy: What the $1B Deal Means for AI Data Center Power
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Musk’s Quiet $1 Billion Bet on Power

Introduction Elon Musk has acquired the assets of APR Energy, a Jacksonville, Florida company that deploys trailer-mounted gas turbines on accelerated timelines. Neither Musk nor APR announced the transaction. It surfaced instead through two regulatory filings — a Federal Trade Commission early termination notice dated May 14, 2026, and a Securities and Exchange Commission disclosure...