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             What’s Benjamin Netanyahu’s next move? Israel’s prime minister, center, is under intense international pressure not to retaliate after Iran’s missile and drone attack.
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          Investors are breathing a sigh of relief this morning. Global stocks are in the green and oil prices have retreated from last week’s gains after Iran’s unprecedented drone and missile attack on Israel was mostly neutralized in the skies. But the calm could be short lived, as world leaders and markets focus on Israel’s response.
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          Military clashes don’t always sink the markets, as was the case when Hamas attacked Israel in October and Israel retaliated. But many on Wall Street fear the economic impact from hostilities in the Middle East and in Ukraine. “We may be entering one of the most treacherous geopolitical eras since World War II,” Jamie Dimon, JPMorgan Chase’s C.E.O.,
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          Benjamin Netanyahu is facing intense
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          international pressure
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          The attack puts the spotlight on Iranian drones.
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          , or about 10 percent below estimates. The decline is the largest falloff since 2022, when Covid lockdowns hit supply chains.
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          Elon Musk announced the cuts in an
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          according to Electrek. Tesla sales hae been falling in the face of an intensifying price war and rising competition from Chinese rivals.
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          Trump is accused of falsifying records to cover up a sex scandal.
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          Jury selection begins today to decide if he concealed a hush-money payment to the porn star Stormy Daniels after she threatened to go public about their affair when he ran for president in 2016. Trump
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          The latest
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          shows that Biden has almost erased Trump’s lead. The two candidates are in a virtual tie, with Trump at 46 percent to Biden’s 45 percent.
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          Biden is gaining ground despite worries about the economy.
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          Conventional political wisdom says that the economy is the top concern for voters, and Trump scored a better grade on that front in the poll. Last week’s
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          added to skepticism about Biden’s economic management (even though the U.S. is
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          huge financial lead
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          over the Republican, is ramping up advertising in battleground states.
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          Trump is betting that he can defy the odds.
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          He will most likely seek to
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          spin any verdict to his benefit
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          . Given the scandals that plagued his first run for the White House, no one would write him off this time. Watch the share price of Trump Media, which has become a kind of proxy on the
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          MAGA movement’s faith in Trump’s chances
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          .
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          Even critics are falling in line.
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          of New Hampshire acknowledges Trump’s part in fomenting the Jan. 6 insurrection and that he could be convicted. Still, Sununu said he would vote for him. “This trial is not going to have major political ramifications that a lot of people think it may have. When it comes to these issues, people see it more as reality TV at this point,” Sununu
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          ABC’s “This Week” yesterday.
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          An old Facebook fight comes back to life
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          When Facebook bought Palmer Luckey’s Oculus VR for $2 billion in 2014, it cemented him as a tech founder to watch. Three years later, he left the social media giant after coming under fire for donating to an organization that
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          spread anti-Hillary Clinton memes
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          and he reportedly threw his
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          support behind Donald Trump
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          .
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          Nondisclosure agreements mean the full story of his departure from Facebook has never been made public. Luckey has since started
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          Anduril Industries
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          , a defense company backed by the likes of Marc Andreesen.
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          But the dispute burst
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          back into the open
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          this weekend, in a series of exchanges on X with Andrew Bosworth, the C.T.O. of Facebook parent Meta. DealBook picks out some choice exchanges:
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          Bosworth:
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          I have absolutely no idea about palmers politics now or then and
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          defended him publicly
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          inside the company when people were agitating around them.
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          Luckey:
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          Great
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          story to tell
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          now that I have dragged myself back to relevance, but you aren’t credible.
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          You retweeted posts claiming I donated to white supremacists, and a post saying that anyone who supports Trump because they don’t like Hillary Clinton is a s****y human being.
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          You publicly told everyone my departure had nothing to do with politics, which is absolutely insane and obviously contradicted by reams of internal communications. It is like saying the sky is green … but don’t try to be the apolitical hero.
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          Bosworth:
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         <span>
          Not claiming to be
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         <a class="css-sdwaa1" style="-webkit-text-decoration:underline;text-decoration:underline;color:inherit">
          apolitical
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          , I certainly have my own politics probably different than yours, but internally at the time I certainly was clear I thought no employment consequences should come from someone’s political beliefs and people asking about it at Q&amp;A were out of line.
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          Luckey:
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          I am down to
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          throw it all out ther
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          e. We can make everything public and let people judge for themselves. Just say the word.
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          The myth of free tax prep
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          It’s tax day, and that is reigniting the debate about
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          tax fairness
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          , the $34 trillion national debt, and whether the winner of this year’s presidential election should consider
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          extending Trump-era tax cuts
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          — or leave them to expire at the end of next year.
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          It’s also an occasion to review America’s complicated tax code.
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          Politicians on both sides of the aisle loathe the lengthy forms that taxpayers must fill out. Several presidents have vowed to simplify the process and make it less costly.
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          America’s tax-preparation industry has continuously blocked these efforts.
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         <span>
          Intuit, H&amp;R Block and other tax-prep specialists have spent heavily on lobbying against Washington’s efforts to demystify the filing process.
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        <p style="font:normal 17px/25px georgia,serif;color:#333;margin:0 0 15px">
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          They’ve also fought back against free tax-prep options
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          , including one being
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          tested by the I.R.S.
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          The industry’s own free versions have run into consumer and congressional pushback as they’d been rendered off-limits for millions of tax filers. The companies have since largely abandoned the free services, The Times Opinion team
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          details in a new video
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          .
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          And yet there are few options open to taxpayers.
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         <span>
          “What these companies are doing is standing astride the highway that everybody needs to travel and collecting tolls,” said The Times’s Binyamin Appelbaum.
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          It’s a busy week for earnings and economic data, starting today with U.S. retail sales. The I.M.F. and World Bank also kick off their annual spring meetings.
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          Tomorrow:
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          China releases first-quarter G.D.P. figures. Bank of America, Morgan Stanley, United Airlines, Johnson &amp; Johnson, LVMH and United Healthcare deliver results. Elsewhere, a new batch of housing data is set for release.
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          Wednesday:
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         <span>
          All eyes on the Fed beige book,
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         <span style="font-weight:700;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:#000">
         </span>
         <span>
          which details economic activity across 12 regions and should offer fresh insight into the U.S. economy.
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         <span style="font-weight:700;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:#000">
         </span>
         <span>
          On the earnings front, there’s ASML, the chip equipment maker.
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          Thursday:
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          Netflix, Blackstone and TSMC, the Taiwanese chip maker, report results.
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          Friday:
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          Crypto watchers will be keeping an eye on the “
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          ,” a quadrennial occurrence in which production of the token shrinks, potentially affecting market prices.
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