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After leaving Washington D.C., he visited a Ford manufacturing factory in Atlanta and was amazed that they could produce 50 cars per hour, when, at the time, China was only able to manufacture 13,000 a year. He then visited Johnson Space Center in Houston before leaving for Seattle, where he toured an assembly line for Boeing 747 planes.

If you run that business like on a steady state earnings basis, where they are not growing and given there is 50 underlying customer base, I think it was like 2.5 times or 3 times levered, if my memory serves me, and the interest coverage was significantly high. So if a product is a really, really interesting business that has high return on invested capital, 60 embedded customers, that you could -- the company could run at significantly high free cash flow margins if they weren't growing new customers and that return on those new customers were very high. Bo, anything to add there?

Germany’s environment ministry wants to set a 2050 domestic emission cut goal of at least 95%, laying out its first draft Climate Action law as part of a law-making process that is likely to face heavy pushback.

Brands will demand digital return-on-investment, instead of just brand awareness. This will require marketers to innovate with new digital products and platforms to drive revenue streams. Platforms like Red have provided an opportunity to combine content, communication and commerce that very few brands have jumped on so far.

In his executive budget for fiscal year 2020, Cuomo included a proposal to eliminate the internet tax advantage – a loophole that exempts internet third-party marketplace providers like Amazon from collecting and remitting New York sales tax on some transactions conducted over their sites.

"As business investment falls, there will be more people leaving the state, or jobs will be lost, and people will move interstate again as a result of that," CCIWA chief economist Rick Newnham said.

Currently, there are no tax related responsibilities on sales for the third-party sellers, according to the release. The change could possibly bring $300 million or more to the state in local and state tax revenue in its first fiscal year.

The move had collateral damage, including U.S. optical networking company Acacia Communications (ACIA), whose own stock fell 35% in the days after the ban. Ultimately, President Trump reversed the ban and fined ZTE $1 billion instead.

Lucas Vasquez and Vinicius Junior have moved ahead of Bale in the pecking order and with plenty of interest from the Premier League, a sale could take place this summer to finance moves for Eden Hazard and Christian Eriksen.

Hecht wants to see more protections for marketplace providers to ensure that they don’t solely bear the burden of collection and remittance. What the current proposal is also missing, he says, is a protection against class-action suits against providers if they have over-collected. Still, he sees the marketplace provider tax as likely to pass, not only because of the Supreme Court ruling, but because of the Democratic-controlled state Legislature.

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Coats has also described the experience of briefing the president—how he will frequently interrupt with questions or detours such that the briefers have to keep returning to the central points. Anonymous officials were less charitable in describing the experience to Time magazine recently, saying that Trump displayed “willful ignorance” or reacted with anger to facts he didn’t like. Two of them told Time that they’d been warned not to tell Trump information that contradicted positions he’d taken in public—which would seriously undercut the entire point of intelligence briefings, and offer further evidence of a dangerous disinterest in crafting fact-based policies. The Office of the Director of National Intelligence declined to comment on the report for The Atlantic.