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How Pizza Hut stopped innovating its pizza and fell behind Domino’s In the late ‘90s, Pizza Hut was an innovation powerhouse, with creations like Stuffed Crust and BigFoot. Today, the chain has been forced to shift focus from food to technology. MARK DENT Twenty years ago, Pizza Hut was an...

The zombie media site that just won’t die: Gawker once ran a story about Bustle CEO Bryan Goldberg under the headline “Who Gave This Asshole $6.5 Million To Launch a Bro-Tastic Lady Site?” Little did it know he would buy it for seven figures just two years later. After he bought it and announced...

Scientology’s spiritual headquarters:The Church of Scientology and companies run by its members spent $103 million over the past three years buying up vast sections of Clearwater, Florida. They now own 185 properties that cover 101 acres in the center of downtown, putting the secretive church...

The secretive billionaire buying up the Cayman Islands:The heir to the red Solo cup empire is apparently a mysterious billionaire who is widely believed to be the biggest private landholder of the Cayman islands. Yet no one has ever actually seen him. Residents compared him to Batman, Howard...

The economist who helped invent the proposed wealth tax: Gabriel Zucman is a French economist who has studied the effects that accumulated wealth has had on global inequality. According to his calculations, $7.6 trillion of global household wealth was held in tax havens, and it was mostly being...

Big Money Poll: Bears Rise to a Two-Decade-Plus High By Nicholas Jasinski Updated Oct. 26, 2019 1:55 am ET / Original Oct. 25, 2019 7:24 pm ET Order Reprints Print Article Illustration by Jacob Thomas Text size After a big year for U.S. stocks—make that a big 10 years—America’s money...

Yes I do; as per wiki Greece has higher median wealth than UAE, Netherlands and Germany. Having recently been to Cyprus I have not seen any industry other than tourism and money laundering for Russian ( yes there is very small agricultural sector) and Eastern European elite...

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Scaramucci Slashes his Sights on His Opportunity Zone Fund(TheRealDeal.com) Anthony Scaramucci’s SkyBridge Capital initially sought to raise $3 billion in Opportunity Zone funds to invest nationwide through a REIT, but so far said he has only raised about $30 million. And he has reduced his...

English Edition October 26, 2019 Print Edition Video Home World U.S. Politics Economy Business Tech Markets Opinion Life & Arts Real Estate WSJ. Magazine Search The Nickelodeon theme park area of American Dream on opening day. Bryan Anselm for The Wall Street Journal Could a Ski Hill, a...

Do you believe the numbers on Greece and Cyprus?

“Two things that people want more than sex and money are recognition and praise.” - Mary Kay Ash

"Always choose to be kind. It’s as much a gift to yourself as it is to others." - Abigail Doolittle (@TheChartress)

“Pray, don’t find fault with the man ... unless you have worn the moccasins he wears.” - Mary T. Lathrop

Libra No So, will Twitter ever sign up to Facebook's Libra cryptocurrency play? "Hell no," says CEO Jack Dorsey. "It’s not an Internet open standard that was born on the Internet. It was born out of a company’s intention, and it’s not consistent with what I personally believe and what I want...

Wind Power The International Energy Agency says offshore wind power can entirely meet the world's energy needs, and will become competitive with fossil energy within the next decade, thanks to falling costs. IEA executive director Fatih Birol: "Looking at the future of offshore wind . . . it...

Boeing Flaws Indonesian investigators' final report into last year's Lion Air 737 Max crash points fingers at flaws in the design and certification of Boeing's new flight-control system, as well as the airline's pilots and maintenance work, plus a Florida part supplier. The report details the...

Citigroup Succession No woman has ever been CEO of a Wall Street bank and, as Fortune's Claire Zillman recently reported, in April Citigroup CEO Michael Corbat did not seem to believe his successor would be female. Well, Citigroup just promoted its Latin America chief, Jane Fraser, to be its...

Hedge Fund Files £7.4M Suit Against Partners Who Resigned (Law360.com) Law360, London (October 24, 2019, 6:59 PM BST) —BlueCrest Capital Management has filed a £7.4 million ($9.5 million) suit against two former partners, claiming the two took incentive awards requiring them to remain with the...

Got an old Birkin bag in your closet? Now, you can turn it back into cash They say an Hermés bag is a better investment than gold these days. It looks like entrepreneur Charles Gorra believes it. On Thursday, he launched Clair AKA the Comprehensive Luxury Appraisal Index for Resale. It’s...