#900: A divided Fed holds interest rates but three members wanted to hike it up. Meta shares dip after reporting an earnings miss as it keeps spending money on data centers. Microsoft beat expectations thanks to its partnership with Anthropic. Then, Neal shares numbers on the busiest commercial flight day on record, weed being more common than cigarettes, and why nobody is talking to each other anymore. Finally, NYC just released a short list of property owners subject to Mamdani’s luxury tax on second homes.
0:00 - eBay’s strange case settlement
2:30 - Fed divided
7:45 - Meta meh
11:00 - Microsoft’s cloud power
14:30 - Flying a lot
17:00 - Weed over cigarettes
19:30 - No talking pls
22:00 - Sprint Finish!
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