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Covering food for Bloomberg Businessweek. Tips and dog pics welcome dshanker@bloomberg.net

I’m looking for a freelancer based in Spain or France to cover the wildfires and heat wave. If that’s you, my DMs are open and I’d love to talk through story ideas!

For August’s @bloomberg.com Businessweek—The Grift Issue!—I wrote about skyrocketing rates of credit card chargebacks, which are up 46% since 2021. It’s driven by two things: retailers behaving in scammy ways, and shoppers trying to scam them back. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Credit Card Holders Are Using ‘Friendly Fraud’ to Get Back at Retailers

An old consumer protection is being wielded way more, and with questionable intent.

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all this time we saw climate change coming and just couldn’t bring ourselves to do anything about it And now it’s here Remind what we’re doing?

Gonna go out on a limb here and see what happens... It is entirely possible to criticize Israel and/or AIPAC without using any antisemitic tropes.