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🪷 “The White Lotus Effect” — HBO’s tourism bump. DeepSeek’s copy/paste. The Bacon IPO. Jan 31, 2025

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“White Lotus Season 3” is about to debut… and it’ll boost Thailand’s economy by 20%.

The biggest IPO of 2025 is a bacon biz… so we devoured the first pureplay pork stock.

We now know how DeepSeek caught up to ChatGPT… the ol’ “copy/paste.”

Plus, the Utah Hockey Club is choosing a new name… but the fans at the rink decide tonight.

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🏆 “Perfect Credit Score” — How to get one. Tesla’s new MAGA brand. Chili’s ate TGI Fridays. Jan 30, 2025

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Does the perfect 850 credit score exist?... It does, one man just got it, and we’ll tell ya how.

Tesla has become a $45K MAGA hat… so we’ll explain the biggest pivot in branding.

Chili’s restaurant stock surged 300% in the last year… thanks to its Great White Shark strategy.

Plus, it’s the Lunar New Year… so we found wild data on stocks during the Year of the Snake (spoiler: It’s bad).

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☄️ “The 4 Frontiers” — Space Inc.’s Trump jump. X’s Venmo-y Visa deal. Royal Caribbean’s value meal. Jan 29, 2025

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Space stocks surged as Trump pledged to reach Mars… so we’re introducing the 4 Final Frontiers.

X announced a Venmo-like deal with Visa… but it all comes down to the Beyonce of Banking.

Royal Caribbean is up 8x since 2022… because cruises are the value meals of vacation.

Plus, if you’re sick, Progressive Soup just invented the first chicken noodle cough drop…

$RCL $V $RDW

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🐳 “AI’s Goodwill Hunting moment” — China’s DeepSeek Drama. Coke vs Pepsi vs Costco. Unlimited PTO Paradox. Jan 28, 2025

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One Chinese AI app, DeepSeek, just shocked the world… and the entire US tech market.

Costco is swapping Pepsi for Coke in the food court… here’s how Coke’s beating Pepsi.

7% of workers have Unlimited Paid Time Off… but people only take 16 days in practice.

$KO $PEP $COST

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🎶 “Baby Cardi B” — Kidz Bop’s record music. Ozempic’s secret side-effect. CNN’s plastic surgery. Single-Lady Home Surge. Jan 27, 2025

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Kidz Bop is making $50M on cover music… not by creating, by re-creating.

If you shop online too much or scroll Instagram too much, the new cure may be… Ozempic.

CNN is overhauling its entire business for the Trump presidency… A media plastic surgery.

Plus, guess who’s driving luxury home sales these days?... Single ladies (it’s a Beyonce Bump)

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💨 “Fart-coin” — Crypto’s Silk Road pardon. Neko’s $2B body-scanner. Video Games’ Spiderman mistake. Jan 24, 2025

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Trump pardoned the crypto founder of Silk Road… after launching his own Fartcoin. We’ll explain.

Spotify’s CEO co-founded a body-scanning startup to save your life… and it just hit $2B.

EA’s video game stock had its worst day in 17 years… because of 1 huge graphics mistake.

Plus, the hot new Dry January trend is Cannabis Cocktails (replace ABV with THC).

$EA $SPOT $BTC

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🥯 “Shmear Me” — PopUp Bagel’s boom. Zuck’s Smart Oakleys. Stargate’s $500B Hollywood name. Jan 23, 2025

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Zuck’s reportedly launching smart Oakleys this year… and a smart watch and airpods next year.

PopUp Bagels is the fastest-growing bagel chain in America… and they prioritize inconvenience.

“Stargate” is Sam Altman’s new $500B AI project… it would be the most expensive thing we’d ever build.

Plus, the medals handed out at the Paris Olympics? They’re losing their gold.

$DNUT $META $MSFT

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🫰 “Andreessen-In-Chief” — Trump’s Venture Cabinet. Netflix’s Live Adele Quarter. Trump’s Executive Orders. Jan 22, 2025

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The theme of Trump’s cabinet? Venture Capital guys… so we put together a LinkedIn on it.

Netflix’s biggest pivot in a decade is to live sports… and we just got the results.

The White House issued a record number of executive orders… Energy stocks explain ‘em all.

Plus, the “5-Second Rule” of food was just proven wrong (no fallen sandwich is safe).

$AMZN $AAPL $META $NFLX $SPY

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🇺🇸 “47’s Favorite Number” — Trump’s Report Card. Bumble’s Boomerang CEO. Gmail’s AI Clippy. Jan 21, 2025

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On Trump’s 1st day back in the White House… We’ll tell you his most important economic number.

Bumble’s founder is returning as CEO… So we found the stock performance of Boomerang CEOs.

Gmail and Microsoft are forcing everyone to buy their AI… because AI has an innovator problem.

Plus, Jimi Hendrix once lit a guitar on fire… and it became the best-selling guitar of all-time: The Fender Stratocaster.

$BMBL $GOOG $MSFT

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