Danielle Sacks
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Senior Features Editor at Bloomberg Businessweek. Opinions are my own. RTs are not endorsements.
new york
Joined March 2010
really enjoyed this piece by @amandamull on the home depot of makeup
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The retailer built an $11 billion business by acting more like Home Depot than like Sephora.
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Caught up with Zohran Mamdani during the final stages of the NYC mayor’s race. I saw him get heckled, talked to him about coalition building and got a sense of how he’s preparing for the general election and what’s beyond. 🎁:
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New York City’s mayoral frontrunner has been working to build a governing coalition by meeting with all comers, including the business community that’s been bashing his plans.
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Meet Kyle Wool, the banker behind the Eric and Donald Trump Jr.'s quick Wall Street scores (gift link to follow) @antoniabmassa
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Dominari Holdings’ Kyle Wool has helped Donald Jr. and Eric make more than half a billion dollars boosting stocks.
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For @BW's November issue, I have a feature on American Express, Chase, and the high-fee premium credit card war to win over the 10% of affluent Americans who do 50% of the country's consumer spending. Gift link:
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The fierce fight between Amex and Chase is playing out over higher fees, extravagant events and every perk imaginable.
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my latest investigation for @ConsumerReports is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day — some by more than 10 times !
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Gift link! https://t.co/sktPcBvhKM
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Following human eggs as they’re exchanged across open, gray and black markets — reaping rewards for an extremely high price.
.@uclaanderson presents the 2025 Loeb Award for the feature category to: “The Egg” From: Bloomberg Businessweek #lowbawards
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“Buying Power” From: Bloomberg Businessweek By: Amanda Mull
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The political transformation of the billionaire mall king who could be California's next governor @JohnGittelsohn @pat_clark
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Rick Caruso, the mogul behind Los Angeles’ shopping meccas, lost the mayor’s race in 2022. Rebuilding after the wildfires has suddenly put him in the running for governor.
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great conversation this week explaining how Argentina's libertarian anarcho-capitalist became a guy in need of a bailout + Mr. Beast v Mr. Ellison with @Lucas_Shaw
Argentina and its leader are going through a rough patch, but Javier Milei has found support from his American friend President Trump. This week on Everybody's Business @chafkin and @svaneksmith sat down with @davidelgreco to find out if the lifeline is enough to help turn things
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She pitched it as SaaS for fashion. Everyone from Stanford's John Hennessy to Bill Ackman bit. Now the SEC and DOJ accuse Christine Hunsicker of pulling off one of the biggest financial heists in recent tech history. @jillrshah @KimBhasin @BW
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CaaStle pulled off one of the biggest financial heists in recent tech history, according to the SEC and DOJ. The company’s embattled CEO says there’s more to the story.
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New: Disney executives have spent months preparing for Trump to come for their broadcast licenses. They are confident they would win the legal battle. https://t.co/zksciHHXD0
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Walt Disney Co. is preparing for President Donald Trump to retaliate against the company for putting late-night host Jimmy Kimmel back on the air Tuesday night.
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A cache of more than 18,000 emails from Jeffrey Epstein’s personal email account, obtained by Bloomberg News, provides new details on his relationship with Ghislaine Maxwell. Here is the next installment in our Epstein investigation: https://t.co/d7W1KSt5zn via @business
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A cache of 18,000 messages obtained by Bloomberg News reveals Maxwell’s deep ties and involvement with the disgraced financier and sex offender.
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Listen to my full conversation w/ @NPRinskeep on today’s Up First here:
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Up First From NPR on NPR One | 13:53
On NPR, @mariaaspan says the Trump currency “underlines the extraordinary degree to which President Trump and his family are using the Oval Office to profit personally,” and there’s “no federal regulator who’s going to call Trump out on any of this, because he controls them.”
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This @BW story on the billion-dollar business of Big Doodle is so, so good, as are the photos and the make-a-doodle widget and just...all of it! It's so good. Gift link:
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Goldendoodles, labradoodles and bernedoodles are everywhere. Have we finally reached peak doodle?
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Ten lines tucked at the end of a 200-page spending bill has some MAHA Moms threatening to defect from the GOP. Pesticide policy is a pain point that has pitted some of RFK Jr.'s supporters against congressional Republicans. w/ @deenashanker for @BW
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RFK Jr.’s MAHA coalition is already made up of unlikely GOP allies, from anti-Big Food activists to regenerative farmers. The issue of pesticides threatens to come between the movement and its...
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Amazing investigative reporting and in-depth storytelling. @BW. Free to read for 24 hours.
NEW investigation: DOGE-Pilled The full story on the transformation of 23 year-old Luke Farritor and how he ended up at the Department of Government Efficiency--slashing, dismantling, undoing--wielding a résumé that "didn’t pass muster” NO PAYWALL! https://t.co/31VeF7QOSm
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Exclusive: Dozens of lawmakers are urging US health regulators to crack down on the booming market for knockoff weight-loss drugs amid mounting concerns over their potential safety risks. Latest for @business:
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Dozens of lawmakers are urging US health regulators to crack down on the booming market for knockoff weight-loss drugs amid mounting concerns over their potential safety risks.
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New for @BW: What do Amazon, Boeing, Google, Hyatt, NBCUniversal, Nike, and Nvidia have in common? They’ve all unwittingly hired North Korean agents in recent years. I delved into the scheme, with exclusive access to an American facilitator who enabled it:
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Thousands of undercover agents feed Kim Jong Un’s rocket program with millions from the likes of Google and Amazon. In a Bloomberg Businessweek exclusive, one of the regime’s US pawns tells all.
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Burning Man is "in the unusual position of needing the one thing it’s been designed to ignore" — money. A deep-dive on the festival's financial crisis by @TedAlcorn
https://t.co/0z0KimdV5B
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The festival has billionaire devotees, more than 100 offshoot events and a cult following. So why is the organization behind it struggling to stay afloat?
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What could people in the zipper-making business teach Donald Trump about the dangers of all-out trade war? An awful lot, as it turns out.
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