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I Was an S.V.B. Client. I Blame the Venture Capitalists.
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In 2016, I started a New York-based creative agency that specialized in branded content. Among creative agencies, the trend at the time was for names that sounded like punk bands, and I unfortunately chose the Insurrection.
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Covid Worsened a Health Crisis Among Pregnant Women
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KOKOMO, Ind. — Tammy Cunningham doesn’t remember the birth of her son. She was not quite seven months pregnant when she became acutely ill with Covid-19 in May 2021. By the time she was taken by helicopter to an Indianapolis hospital, she was coughing and gasping for breath.
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Wall Street’s Biggest Banks Rescue Teetering First Republic
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In an extraordinary effort to stave off financial contagion and reassure the world that the American financial system was stable, 11 of the largest U.S.
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WASHINGTON — If a number defined the 2010s, it was 2 percent. Inflation, annual economic growth, and interest rates at their highest all hovered around that level — so persistently that economists, the Federal Reserve and Wall Street began to bet that the era of low-everything would last.
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Is It Safe to Get Your Neck Manipulated by a Chiropractor?
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Going to a chiropractor has become an accepted part of medical care, with about 15 percent of adults in the United States visiting one every year.
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His Wife Was Dying, but 10 Feet of Snow Stood in His Way
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Two days into the relentless snowfall it became clear: There would be no leaving the mountains. Robert Rice was initially unfazed by warnings of the impending storm.
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Eight years ago, I started dating my now fiancé, a year after separating from my ex-husband. Our daughter was 15 at the time. She has never accepted my new relationship, and every attempt my fiancé and I make to change her feelings is met with coldness and resentment.
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The Kamala Removal Fantasy
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So … it’s pretty clear Joe Biden is going to announce he’s running for re-election. What do you think he should do about Kamala Harris? A) For heaven’s sake, keep her on.
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala.
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How Bad Was the Silicon Valley Bank Bailout?
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So the feds stepped in to protect all deposits at Silicon Valley Bank, even though the law says that deposits only up to $250,000 are insured and even though there was a pretty good case that allowing big depositors to take a haircut wouldn’t have created a systemic crisis. S.V.B.
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GPT-4 Is Exciting and Scary
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When I opened my laptop on Tuesday to take my first run at GPT-4, the new artificial intelligence language model from OpenAI, I was, truth be told, a little nervous. After all, my last extended encounter with an A.I.
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No, ‘Wokeness’ Did Not Cause Silicon Valley Bank’s Collapse
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WASHINGTON — A growing chorus of conservative pundits and politicians have said the failure of Silicon Valley Bank was the result of the bank’s “woke” policies, blaming the California lender’s commitments to workplace diversity and environmentally and socially conscious investments.
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How to Escape ‘Faux Self-Care’
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When she was 28, Dr. Pooja Lakshmin blew up her life: She left a less-than-a-year-old marriage, dropped out of her psychiatry residency at the Stanford University School of Medicine and joined a cult in San Francisco that practiced healing through orgasmic meditation.
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Credit Suisse to Borrow Up to $54 Billion From Central Bank
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Credit Suisse, the 166-year-old institution that was once an emblem of Swiss pride, is fighting for its life after investors, fearing that the bank would run out of money, dumped its stock and sent the price of insuring its debt against a default skyrocketing.
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WASHINGTON — The Biden administration wants TikTok’s Chinese ownership to sell the app or face a possible ban, TikTok said on Wednesday, as the White House hardens its stance toward resolving national security concerns about the popular video service.
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How Siri, Alexa and Google Assistant Lost the A.I. Race
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On a rainy Tuesday in San Francisco, Apple executives took the stage in a crowded auditorium to unveil the fifth-generation iPhone. The phone, which looked identical to the previous version, had a new feature that the audience was soon buzzing about: Siri, a virtual assistant.
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The Silicon Valley Bank Rescue Just Changed Capitalism
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After a career of writing about bank failures, I wound up in the middle of one when my bank, Silicon Valley Bank, was seized by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. On Saturday, when I tried to pay a bill online, I was greeted by this not very reassuring missive:
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‘The Era of Urban Supremacy Is Over’
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On the last day of February, Glen Lee, the chief financial officer of Washington, D.C., issued a warning to the mayor and members of the District of Columbia Council, who are undertaking such costly ventures as free bus service and expanded affordable housing.
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Months after the United States invaded Iraq in 2003, I began filming the U.S. Army’s 2nd Battalion, 3rd Field Artillery Regiment (known as the Gunners) in Baghdad. The unit was housed in a bombed-out palace on the banks of the Tigris that they named Gunner Palace.
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The sale, which has not been previously reported, is one of about a dozen leads being pursued by the F.B.I., the U.S. attorney’s office in Brooklyn and the Nassau County district attorney’s office, people familiar with the investigation said. Prosecutors and F.B.I.
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It’s a Spectacular Scandal, and a Warning to Europe
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ATHENS — It’s like something out of a crime novel. On an early December morning last year, after months spent staking out residences and tapping phones, Belgian police officers raided dozens of places across Brussels.
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AMARILLO, Texas — The judge in a closely watched lawsuit seeking to overturn federal approval of a widely used abortion pill questioned lawyers publicly for the first time on Wednesday.
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Goldman Sachs Eyes a Big Payout From Silicon Valley Bank Deal
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As an adviser to Silicon Valley Bank, Goldman Sachs last week tried to pull off a last-minute capital raise to save the firm from collapse.
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At Long Last, a Donkey Family Tree
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The donkey is a key, if increasingly marginalized, character in human history. Once venerated, the animal has been an object of ridicule for so long that the word “asinine” — derived from the Latin asinus, meaning “like an ass or a donkey” — means “stupid.
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Putin and Netanyahu Show Why Bad Things Happen to Bad Leaders
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It is shocking to me how much Vladimir Putin and Benjamin Netanyahu have in common these days: Both see themselves as great strategic chess players in a world where, they think, everyone else knows only how to play checkers. And yet both completely misread the world in which they were operating.
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