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2022

Bloomberg.com Crypto Implosion Juices Senate Odd Couple’s Push to Clamp Down (20 May 2022)

Bloomberg.com Texas Governor Woos California Donors While Vilifying State (13 April 2022)

Bloomberg.com Texas Tech Workers Back O’Rourke as Abbott Touts Newcomers’ Jobs (28 March 2022)

Bloomberg.com Crypto Mania in Texas Risks New Costs and Strains on Shaky Grid (15 March 2022)

Bloomberg.com Texas Governor Abbott Turns to Bitcoin Miners to Bolster the Grid and His Re-Election (27 May 2022)

2021

Bloomberg.com DraftKings, FanDuel Fight to Crack Tribe’s Sports-Bet Monopoly (5 Nov 2021)

Bloomberg.com Republican Governor ‘Frenemies’ Are Battling for the National Limelight (16 Oct 2021)

Bloomberg Businessweek The Amazon Is Fast Approaching a Point of No Return (29 July 2021)

2020

Bloomberg.com Cruise Lines Lobby Trump’s White House to End No-Sail Order (Oct 2020)

Bloomberg Businessweek Narcos Are Waging a New Drug War Over a Texas Company’s Basic Chemical (Oct 2020)

Bloomberg Businessweek Heroin’s Hidden Ingredient Is a Chemical Made by U.S. Companies (Aug 2020)

2019

Bloomberg.com A Swiss Bank Keeps Cropping Up in Venezuelan Corruption Cases (Oct 2019)

Bloomberg Businessweek Venezuela’s Trade Scheme With Turkey Is Enriching a Mysterious Maduro Crony (April 2019)

2018

Bloomberg.com Brand-Name Companies, No-Name Workers: How ‘Ghosts’ at Contractors Keep ICE at Bay (Dec 2018)

Bloomberg Businessweek The Florida Warehouse Producing ‘Made in America’ Kalashnikovs (Aug 2018)

Bloomberg Businessweek How Defective Guns Became the One Product That Can’t Be Recalled (Feb 2018)

2017

Bloomberg Businessweek No One Has Ever Made a Corruption Machine Like This One (June 2017)

Bloomberg.com How to Become an International Gold Smuggler (March 2017)

2016

Bloomberg Businessweek We Found Your Next Smartphone, Next to Your VCR (Nov 2016)

2015

Bloomberg Markets One Thing Gangs Smuggling Latin Migrants Over the Border Can't Do Without: Big U.S. Banks (Jan 2015)

2013

Bloomberg Markets Terrorist Tungsten in Colombia Taints Global Phone-to-Car Sales (Aug 2013)

2006

Bloomberg Markets The Secret World of Modern Slavery (Dec 2016)