Column: How the retail lobby sold a $45-billion whopper about organized shoplifting

Column: How the retail lobby sold a $45-billion whopper about organized shoplifting

If you’re making a list of big news stories of 2023, here’s one you might want to check twice: The surge in “organized retail crime,” or gang shoplifting. I’ve written before about the news media’s fixation on this phenomenon despite the unreliability of retailers’ claims about it, and especially when compared with the much more…

Who owns the memorabilia on the walls of this iconic L.A. pizzeria?

Who owns the memorabilia on the walls of this iconic L.A. pizzeria?

Almost every square inch of wall space at Village Pizzeria on Larchmont Boulevard is adorned with tchotchkes and photos that gives the Los Angeles slice shop its bicoastal feel. A 2000 Subway Series poster and Brennan and Carr bumper sticker show its founder grew up in New York. A “Made in Los Angeles” neon sign…

OMV, ADNOC close to agreeing deal for chemicals company tie up  | Reuters News Agency

OMV, ADNOC close to agreeing deal for chemicals company tie up  | Reuters News Agency

Business & FinanceDeals 14 December 2023, 5:30 am 1 minute Reuters exclusively reported that Abu Dhabi National Oil Co (ADNOC) is closing in on a deal with Austria’s OMV (OMVV.VI) to combine two entities in which the companies own stakes to create a chemicals giant, two people with knowledge of the talks said. In July…

Austria stalls Russian sanctions over Raiffeisen blacklisting  | Reuters News Agency

Austria stalls Russian sanctions over Raiffeisen blacklisting  | Reuters News Agency

Business & FinanceGovernment 14 December 2023, 5:25 am 1 minute Reuters exclusively reported that Austria is seeking to have Raiffeisen Bank International, the biggest Western bank in Russia, struck off a Ukrainian blacklist in return for signing off fresh European Union sanctions on Russia, said two people familiar with the situation.  Market Impact Raiffeisen’s presence…

Austria stalls Russian sanctions over Raiffeisen blacklisting  | Reuters News Agency

Austria stalls Russian sanctions over Raiffeisen blacklisting  | Reuters News Agency

Business & FinanceGovernment 14 December 2023, 5:25 am 1 minute Reuters exclusively reported that Austria is seeking to have Raiffeisen Bank International, the biggest Western bank in Russia, struck off a Ukrainian blacklist in return for signing off fresh European Union sanctions on Russia, said two people familiar with the situation.  Market Impact Raiffeisen’s presence…

Austria stalls Russian sanctions over Raiffeisen blacklisting  | Reuters News Agency

Austria stalls Russian sanctions over Raiffeisen blacklisting  | Reuters News Agency

Business & FinanceGovernment 14 December 2023, 5:25 am 1 minute Reuters exclusively reported that Austria is seeking to have Raiffeisen Bank International, the biggest Western bank in Russia, struck off a Ukrainian blacklist in return for signing off fresh European Union sanctions on Russia, said two people familiar with the situation.  Market Impact Raiffeisen’s presence…

Austria stalls Russian sanctions over Raiffeisen blacklisting  | Reuters News Agency

Austria stalls Russian sanctions over Raiffeisen blacklisting  | Reuters News Agency

Business & FinanceGovernment 14 December 2023, 5:25 am 1 minute Reuters exclusively reported that Austria is seeking to have Raiffeisen Bank International, the biggest Western bank in Russia, struck off a Ukrainian blacklist in return for signing off fresh European Union sanctions on Russia, said two people familiar with the situation.  Market Impact Raiffeisen’s presence…

Austria stalls Russian sanctions over Raiffeisen blacklisting  | Reuters News Agency

Austria stalls Russian sanctions over Raiffeisen blacklisting  | Reuters News Agency

Business & FinanceGovernment 14 December 2023, 5:25 am 1 minute Reuters exclusively reported that Austria is seeking to have Raiffeisen Bank International, the biggest Western bank in Russia, struck off a Ukrainian blacklist in return for signing off fresh European Union sanctions on Russia, said two people familiar with the situation.  Market Impact Raiffeisen’s presence…

US regulator probes banks’ climate risk planning | Reuters News Agency

US regulator probes banks’ climate risk planning | Reuters News Agency

Business & FinanceEconomy 14 December 2023, 4:50 am 1 minute Reuters was first to report that the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) carried out its first climate risk assessment of more than two dozen banks in recent months, laying the groundwork for heightened scrutiny of Wall Street’s accounting for…