Peltz May Have Won After All: DealBook Briefing<br />• Michael Wolff asserts of the deal, “Even when directly told<br />that the White House didn’t like it, and that senior Trump officials were saying it was going down, AT&T put its fingers in its collective ears.” (Hollywood Reporter)<br />• Matt Stoller of the Open Markets Institute writes, “Both Democrats<br />and Republicans have to be careful not to open the door to an equally dangerous prospect — of dangerous monopolists wielding flimsy or even untrue political threats to justify their concentrations of power.” (WaPo)<br />Multiple factors have shifted after the Senate included a repeal of the individual insurance mandate in the latest version of its tax bill.<br />In his radio interview, Mr. Jones said called that “laughable and ridiculous.”<br />Extra credit: Dom Cosentino of Deadspin takes a look at how the Cowboys owner became the league’s “shadow commissioner.”<br />• The Morgan Stanley analyst Brian Nowak asserted this week that Jeff Bezos’s behemoth could eventually have a market capitalization of $1 trillion.<br />A recap of why tech companies were worried:<br />Some start-up employees could owe big tax bills without being able to pay, since privately held companies’ shares are generally harder to sell.
