#New Mets owner Steve Cohen pocketed .6B in 2020

#New Mets owner Steve Cohen pocketed $1.6B in 2020

“#New Mets owner Steve Cohen pocketed $1.6B in 2020” Mets fans will be pleased to learn that Steve Cohen hit it out of the park last year. The billionaire investor’s hedge fund Point72 Asset Management returned double digit gains of around 17 percent in 2020, according to an investor. Cohen’s personal take on that haul…

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#Letters to the editor — Jan. 6, 2021

#Letters to the editor — Jan. 6, 2021

“#Letters to the editor — Jan. 6, 2021” The Issue: Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s proposal to use only gender-neutral language in House rules. At first glance, I thought, for sure, it was a satirical piece that I was reading in The Post (“Nancy Cancels Mom,” Jan. 5). But no! Lo and behold —’twas not a satire…

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#Joe Biden is set to pull America’s schools far to the left

#Joe Biden is set to pull America’s schools far to the left

“#Joe Biden is set to pull America’s schools far to the left” Education reformers breathed a sigh of relief when it became clear that President-elect Joe Biden wouldn’t tap a teachers-union leader as his secretary of education, contrary to the post-election rumor mill. Instead, Biden nominated Connecticut Education Commissioner Miguel Cardona. Compared to teachers-union leaders,…

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#Trump order bans transactions with eight Chinese apps

#Trump order bans transactions with eight Chinese apps

“#Trump order bans transactions with eight Chinese apps” President Trump on Tuesday signed an executive order banning transactions with eight Chinese software applications, including Ant Group’s Alipay, a senior administration official said, escalating tensions with Beijing before President-elect Joe Biden takes office this month. The order, first reported by Reuters, tasks the Commerce Department with…

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#Facebook’s COVID Coverup

#Facebook’s COVID Coverup

“#Facebook’s COVID Coverup” New York magazine’s latest cover story, “The Lab-Leak Hypothesis,” concludes that COVID-19 is a human-engineered virus that escaped from a Wuhan lab — the very same theory that moved Facebook to suppress a Post opinion piece for weeks last year. Steven W. Mosher only called it a possibility in these pages on Feb….

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#Gary Cohn joins IBM after leaving Trump administration

#Gary Cohn joins IBM after leaving Trump administration

“#Gary Cohn joins IBM after leaving Trump administration” IBM announced Tuesday that the former Trump advisor and Goldman Sachs president Gary Cohn will join the New York-based tech giant as Vice Chairman. In a statement, IBM said that Cohn would also join the company’s executive leadership team and work closely with IBM chief Arvind Krishna…

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