A government shutdown looms if the two parties can’t agree on an increase in the debt ceiling. Another sign that Washington DC is broken. Futures point up this morning on improving hopes that agreement will be reached and a shutdown averted. Eric Adams has dropped out of the NYC mayor’s

A great treat to visit last night with Jeremy Corr and Chanell Bunger. Jeremy is the founder of Executive Podcast Solutions. Chanell is an incredible producer. Brilliant. I could have eaten better and you know you are old when the waitress says “this must be a work dinner.” I am

Today I’m excited to give a keynote talk on health care trends at the University of Iowa HealthCare Symposium. Next week we kick off at Becker’s Healthcare Health IT, Digital Health and Revenue Cycle Conf. We have our deepest agenda ever and it should be a great conf. Are are

Congratulations to Ted Widen Founder of Shared Yachts who will join the Business Podcasts in October as the Founder of the Month. Remarkable.

We had record registration for our Becker Business Media virtual event yesterday on private equity, start ups and AI. Thank you to our speakers Geoffrey Cockrell and Holly Buckley and Bart Walker from McGuireWoods LLP, Venkat Mocherla co founder of Midstream Health, Manav Sevak founder and investor, Andrew S. Friedman

The big highlight of my day yesterday was having the chance to have a wide ranging discussion on the Becker’s Healthcare podcast with FDA Commissioner Marty Makary M.D., M.P.H. Dr Makary is really smart. Be one of the first five to text 7737665322 with a grade for today’s newsletter and

Khosla Ventures was founded by Vinod Khosla and is one of the best known tech seed and VC investment firms. It has invested in among others Affirm, Square, Instacart, Impossible Foods and more. It has approximately $15 billion in assets under management. In the VC world, we follow Andreessen Horowitz

Consumer & Retail Starbucks is cutting 900 jobs and closing stores. Most of my writing is done at Starbucks so selfishly I hope my favorite baristas keep working here and my local Starbucks stays open. Starbucks is down 7.65% YTD. Alibaba jumped 8% yesterday and is now up 122% year-to-date,

The markets have now dropped two days in a row and look primed to fall today too. The interest rate environment remains unclear.

Private Equity, Startups and AI. Sept 25th 12 to 215 central. We have three great and concise panels with 11 outstanding leaders + an open business growth call/discussion with the audience. Please join us no charge. Register here. https://lnkd.in/giU7pkKM PPS. A special birthday shout out to entrepreneur Eric Cooper this

When I choke or miss a shot in golf, as I did in epic fashion on the 18th hole Saturday, my first instinct is to blame the club and run to the PGA Store or to Golf Galaxy. Then, I reflect and realize the problem is me. I am the

The H-1B Action. President Trump acts to impose a $100,000 dollar fee on H-1B visas. There an estimated 700000 or so H-1B visa holders in the US and up to 85000 new visas are issued a year. The greatest number of H-1B visas are issued to people from India. The

Technology Apple is on the mend. Apple after being way down all year is now down just 2% YTD. Tim Cook is the CEO of Apple and the firm has some momentum with its new iPhone 17 release. Apple is the worst performing magnificent 7 stock YTD. The 3 biggest

The markets point down this morning after hitting record highs on Friday. The Nasdaq is up 17.06% YTD. The S&P 500 is up 13.27% YTD.

Hats off to Larry Gies who has made enormous gifts ($300 mm) to the University of Illinois. He is redefining winning on several fronts.