Chief Print Editor/Writing Editor, The Wall Street Journal. First place, civics, 1974 Greater New Orleans Literary Rally. Yat.
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Alex Martin retweeted
Real estate brokers bought up empty land in Holly Ridge, La. in 2024, months before Meta announced its data center there.
Now they stand to make millions on their $3k/acre investments.
My story on who's benefiting from "Hyperion" nola.com/news/meta-richland-…
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SpaceX and Louisiana officials used NDAs and codenames to keep details of its massive Starbase project secret.
A new lawsuit claims that many of those actions in Vermilion Parish were illegal.
@alexlubben scoop:
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Trump is open to a three-party meeting with Putin and Xi. But there is a hitch: China, the prospective host, hasn’t issued an invitation. The obstacle is a fundamental disagreement over what the three leaders would discuss.
wsj.com/world/china/xi-wants…
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Broadcom’s role on different sides of the historic Anthropic debt deal—supplier, guarantor, negotiator—and the CEO’s intervention speak to the interlinked nature of the big AI bets transforming the economy. @ajsaeedy @anissagardizy8
Banks had cold feet about participating in the largest AI debt deal ever. Then Broadcom CEO Hock Tan sweetened the offer in a weekend of high-stakes talks. wsj.com/finance/broadcom-ceo…
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SCOOP: Broadcom CEO Hock Tan was getting impatient.
He needed lenders to commit $40 billon in the largest AI debt deal ever—so Anthropic could afford TPUs—but some were getting cold feet.
In the end, Broadcom’s CEO held 11th-hour talks with bank executives over the weekend to get them to finalize their commitments. Broadcom also agreed to higher interest rates on the loans, sweetening the deal.
With @ajsaeedy @ mattwirz for @WSJ
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Several real estate brokers bought up tracts of land in the months before Meta announced its "Hyperion" data center in north Louisiana.
Now, the land is worth 10 times what the previous owners sold it for. And they're calling foul.
My story on the gold rush:
I covered Dale Brown @lsureveille in the early 1980s. He made LSU basketball a happening. And he returned a student reporter's phone calls even though he couldn't pick me out of a police lineup.
Alex Martin retweeted
Great piece by @matthewherper in STAT. He reminds us of some of her lies, including one she told him on stage in front of an audience statnews.com/2026/10/20/eliz… via @statnews
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My WSJ China newsletter column made it into the print edition of today’s @WSJ — a first! After a couple of years of writing this column, seeing it in print feels like a special moment. Grateful to subscribers who’ve followed along and to the editors who made it happen. 🗞️
Xi’s widening purge is targeting officials with ties to rival political networks as China prepares for its 2027 leadership reshuffle. An interview with @guoguang_wu Read more in this edition of the WSJ China newsletter. wsj.com/world/china/chinas-u… via @WSJ
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Breaking from @wsj: Elon Musk personally ordered the Starlink slowdown that blindsided Ukraine. wsj.com/world/ukraine-starli…
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Contra @BillAckman and @johnarnold, the Fed is entirely capable of killing the AI boom and bringing down inflation. My newsletter recalls those in 2000 who wrongly doubted the Fed could deflate the Internet mania. Also this morning: shout outs to @jasonfurman @mtkonczal and @Samfr. Please subscribe! Read today's here: wsj.com/finance/investing/ye…
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SCOOP: Anthropic's latest draft S-1 documents show financials results for the first half of the year, gigantic spending plans for the future, and a laundry list of risk factors.
- Anthropic recorded a net loss of $80.7 billion in the first half of the year, tied to accounting adjustments related to previous financings
- Anthropic is set to spend >$600 billion on compute in the coming years, inclusive of cloud agreements and chip leases.
More in @WSJ:
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A few readers have taken me to task for “missing the point of the film,” which is apparently that Elizabeth Holmes is unknowable and everything is ambiguous. Here’s my response: She went after Tyler Shultz and Erika Cheung with everything she had. I was threatened with litigation on a daily basis for months on end. It was a ruthless cover-up of a breathtaking fraud, and she was at the controls. Just a little context for those who have forgotten or didn’t follow the original story. By the way, I loved the film. #BestPicture, IMO.
A ton of people have asked me for my thoughts about “You Can See Everything,” the new Elizabeth Holmes documentary. Here they are: nytimes.com/2026/10/17/busin… via @NYTimes
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Exclusive: The Moment Katie Zacharia Found Out Her Five-Day Stint as Press Secretary Was Over. Story with @karavoght and @marianne_levine. wsj.com/politics/policy/kati…
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Kimberly Guilfoyle was preparing for her congressional hearing to become U.S. ambassador to Greece when she reached out to a Trump donor with an urgent request: She needed $100,000 that she said she owed American Express—in a way that wouldn’t leave a paper trail.
“It won’t show up anywhere if you wire money to American Express,” she wrote on Signal, according to messages reviewed by The Wall Street Journal. “Please.”
Read story w/ dream team: @rebeccaballhaus @drewhinshaw @JoeWSJ wsj.com/politics/policy/guil…
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"Bessent got so angry about the way his daily briefing book was organized that he picked up the binder full of papers and threw it at a wall, people familiar with the matter said."
Strong report via @schwartzbWSJ , @PhilipWegmann, @jdawsey1
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NEW: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent recently said in an interview that he believes in the idea of "fired if fired upon" in how to respond to people.
Inside Treasury, his management of the agency has featured him, at times, ripping into agency staff and battling with officials leading to multiple departures.
Some of his defenders, including former Trump White House chief strategist Steve Bannon, admit Bessent has a temper, is intense, passionate and demanding but that's all by design to keep Treasury staff in check with the president's agenda. "He brings a Wall Street mentality to Washington," another said.
Our deep dive on what's been happening in an agency that's seen high turnover with alumni of Bessent's hedge fund coming in to help him.
Exclusive w/ @jdawsey1, @PhilipWegmann and @GZuckerman
wsj.com/politics/policy/bess…
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My latest investigation: Inside Google's AI Push Into American Schools "It Slowed My Thinking Down." Students are becoming academically and emotionally dependent on AI, in large part thanks to Google's push in schools. Gift link: wsj.com/tech/ai/google-ai-ge…
Actual reporting. The process may be tedious, but the results are rewarding.
I went through the broadcast of the Iowa/Maryland game on 2/3/24. A replay of Clark’s first 3 shows Jack Smith sitting in Section 109, Row 1.
Yet, @SenEricSchmitt is taking a victory lap on right wing media. I blocked the faces of who appear to be his family @kmoxnews
🎥(Fox)
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For the past few years, residents of a tiny gated community in Florida have gossiped about a 2023 string of home purchases. Eight homes quietly sold for a total of almost $10 million. The mystery buyer, as it turns out, was Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison. on.wsj.com/47ocXM9
