Sep 22, 2023

Why Americans keep buying British soccer teams

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The owner of the Liverpool-based Everton soccer club has agreed to sell to a Miami-based investment group. What's behind the surge in Transatlantic team ownership?

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Why Yankee capital likes European football

by Matt Levin

Sep 22, 2023

The owner of Everton soccer club in England’s Premier League has agreed to sell the Liverpool-based team to a Miami-based investment group.

If Everton's sale to a Miami-based investment group goes through, Americans would own 10 of the 20 clubs in the world’s most lucrative soccer league.

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A Warmer World

A plan for alleviating poverty and climate change

by Sabri Ben-Achour and Alex Schroeder

Sep 22, 2023

The two challenges are interrelated, and a new report from the McKinsey Global Institute says they must be addressed in tandem.

It'll take investment equal to about 8% of global GDP annually to close both the economic empowerment gap and the net-zero transition gap, according to the McKinsey Global Institute,

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