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Sergey Brin's $102 Million Fight Against California's Billionaire Tax: What Is Really at Stake?

A political battle unfolding in California has placed one of the world's richest technology entrepreneurs at the center of a much larger debate about wealth, taxation, political influence and the future of the state's economy. Sergey Brin, the Google co-founder whose fortune is estimated in the hundreds of billions of dollars, has contributed approximately $102 million to an organization campaign…

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Trump’s Medicare Drug Pricing Rule Shrinks From $11.9 Billion to $440 Million: How Pharma Deals Changed the Equation

The Trump administration has finalized a major Medicare drug-pricing experiment that was originally presented as a potentially multibillion-dollar effort to bring the price of certain medicines in the United States closer to what patients pay in other wealthy countries. But by the time the policy reached its final form, the projected savings had fallen dramatically. Medicare actuaries now estimat…

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