Red, Blue and BlackRock: Larry Fink Navigates a Divided America bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

.@KamalaHarris' campaign spent $$$ on ads, but also:
▶️$3.9M to an influencer recruitment agency
▶️payments to private jet company Advanced Aviation
▶️$100k+ to build a set for her appearance on @callherdaddy

Fun @gekaminsky look at how Harris spent $1B+ washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns…

.@lizrhoffman on Trump's Wall Street kitchen cabinet, and possible actual cabinet

Big donors to Senate Leadership Fund last quarter, per new filing:

$20 million from Ken Griffin

$10 million from Paul Singer

$9 million from Steve Schwarzman

$5 million from Miriam Adelson

The group raised $116 million in Q3 and entered October with $112 million.

NEWS —

Here comes Dustin Moskovitz.

The Facebook co-founder is putting his first money this cycle into Future Forward, the main Harris super PAC.

Moskovitz cut a $3 million check to the group last month, I'm told.

Moskovitz put at least $47 million into the group in '20.

Bryce Elder is the best food writer in the building, but his actual job is the sort of “core FT” finance beat I would struggle to explain. Today, those two things have come together and it’s an absolute joy…. on.ft.com/3zyS9UP

New for @POLITICOMag: For months, I’ve embedded with @mrddmia, Donald Trump’s “viceroy,” who talks about putting opponents in “the gulag” & wants to put “kids in cages.”

Is he trolling or truth telling? In the Trump era, why is the line between so thin? politico.com/news/magazine/…

New: "I did not know that!" Oprah said about Kamala Harris being a gun owner.

My story on Harris' gun -- a pistol that could fit in a purse that's currently being kept in her home in California -- and why the VP got it in the first place years ago
cnn.com/2024/09/20/pol…

NEWS: The Justice Dept is overhauling its review of bank mergers, Jonathan Kanter, the agency’s top antitrust cop, tells me.

Focus on branch overlap and deposits ignores the rise of fintech, private equity, etc. New rules could come as soon as tomorrow.

semafor.com/article/09/16/…

The medals on Donald Trump’s jacket in his New York Military Academy grad photo? They belonged to a friend. “He’s wearing my medals on his uniform,” one cadet said. An excerpt from Lucky Loser, my new book out this week with @russbuettner

vanityfair.com/news/story/don…

BlackRock Re-Hires Kamala Harris Adviser Pyle in Senior Role bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

A wave of investor redemptions slashed the size of Western Asset Management Co.’s flagship core plus bond fund below $15 billion bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via @markets & @sabrush

Private equity firms are muscling into the world of insurance, chasing a $15 trillion retirement prize

Read The Big Take ⬇️
trib.al/HL844NS

JD Vance's support of @linakhanFTC is pretty well documented, but this part of his remarks at the @ycombinator event in February have not gotten as much attention. He seems to be saying she should keep her job - even if Trump wins 👀

👀 nbcnews.com/politics/2024-…

The DOJ collected data on 58,000 titles published by major publishers in a year for the PRH case and discovered that 90 percent of them sold fewer than 2,000 copies and 50 percent sold less than a dozen copies. That is.... astonishing. elysian.press/p/no-one-buys-…

In a glitzy hotel in Houston on Tuesday morning, a key antagonist in Texas’ war against BlackRock Inc. flattered Larry Fink, declaring him to be the “king of Wall Street.” bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via @bpolitics

The hottest ticket to a finance job these days?

Being a former spy.

Enjoyed working on this magazine story with @WilliamShaw546 & @sabrush via @BW

bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

NEW: In 2000, Clarence Thomas was deep in debt.

He met w/ a GOP Congressman & complained about his salary.

The GOP started to fear he’d leave the court.

In the years that followed, billionaires lavished him w/ secret gifts.

propublica.org/article/claren…

As the worst three-year rout on record starts fading from view, the titans of the bond market still have a daunting task: winning back clients who fled with hundreds of billions of dollars. bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via @markets @sabrush

Why did wealthy conservatives start giving Clarence Thomas money? Maybe because he told officials he needed more of it. Latest from the @propublica series propublica.org/article/claren…