We are thrilled next week to feature four great leaders on a webinar on building businesses. This will be at Becker’s Healthcare and feature Jessica Cole Becker’s Healthcare, Barry Tanner an all world leader who has led more than a billion dollars in exits, Nader Samii nimble solutions and Amber

Congratulations to all American athlete and baseball player Nathan Samii. An amazing career and it’s unclear if the athletic prowess comes from the brilliant U of M grad Lori Samii and the incredible golden domer Nader Samii. Unclear. Another incredible student athlete Alexis Burton from Colgate is seeking a health

A shout out to rock star leaders at McGuireWoods LLP today Amber Walsh Holly Buckley and David Pivnick who are great leaders and regular guests on the Becker Private Equity and Business Podcast. A great pleasure to visit with Mara Hammond the Chief Impact Officer of NCH on the podcast

Eric Witte, DPT,MBA COO of Genesis Orthopedics & Sports Medicine with my favorite quote of the day. “It’s better to appear uninformed than to actually be uninformed.” Ie ask questions. I love this.

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Salesforce is nearing an $8 billion deal to buy Informatica. This would be the company’s 2nd largest deal ever. Salesforce is down 18% YTD.

A great piece in the WSJ today that highlights ambient listening in health care both in hospitals and physician offices. There, the article mentions Microsoft and Abridge and others. See “Why AI May Be Listening In on Your Next Doctor’s Appointment”.

Tesla sales have dropped 50% in the first quarter in Europe. Nevertheless, the firm’s stock has recovered a great deal as there are great hopes for a good deal of Tesla’s overall technology.

Russia and Putin are proving to be more intransigent than Washington had hoped. Both President Obama and Trump have worked hard to do “resets” with Russia. Each found it difficult. President Trump is now threatening more sanctions to get Putin to move towards peace with Ukraine. I believe both Obama

NVIDIA, which is down 2.23% year to date, announces earnings this Wednesday. The markets are looking for data on how much restrictions on sales to China will hurt Nvidia sales. “CEO Jensen Huang, who pegged the market for AI chips in China at roughly $50 billion next year, said last

Markets Surge on Tariff Delay – The markets are surging today as President Trump pauses on his latest tariff salvos at the EU.  “Stock futures rose sharply Tuesday after President Donald Trump said the start of 50% tariffs on goods from the European Union, which he threatened last Friday, would

The tax bill includes several challenges for tax exempt organization and endowments. More to come.

The tax bill goes much less far in cutting Medicaid than originally feared. It largely focuses on work and trying to work requirements and testing eligibility versus actual cuts. It disallows coverage for illegal immigrants.

The tax bill largely eliminates the electrical vehicle credits. The bill includes a deduction for interest on US made cars.

The tax bill increases the estate exemption by around another $1 million or so to $15 million per person. The tax bill increases the state and local tax exemption to $40000 from $10000 and curtails some of the work arounds.