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The Netflix Number One Movie That Cost $207 Million To Make

Netflix’s new top movie cost over $200 million to make (Photo Illustration by Sheldon Cooper/SOPA … [+] Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Ten years ago Netflix rocked the media industry with the debut of Beasts of No NationCary Fukunaga’s violent film about child soldiers in Africa. Its gritty theme wasn’t the […]

Technology

2025 Predictions: Cloud Architectures, Cost Management and Hybrid By Design

In this episode of our predictions series, we consider the evolving nature of Cloud, across architecture, cost management, and, indeed, the lower levels of infrastructure. We asked our analysts Dana Hernandez, Ivan McPhee, Jon Collins, Whit Walters, and William McKnight for their thoughts. Jon: We’re seeing a maturing of thinking around architecture, not just with […]

Business & Finance

Cost of UK Christmas dinner up 20% since pre-pandemic

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The cost of an average Christmas meal is a fifth higher than before the pandemic, spurred by a surge in the price of mince pies, parsnips and turkey. A basket of 10 items, including potatoes, carrots […]

Business & Finance

Costco (COST) earnings Q1 2025 earnings

Costco on Thursday beat Wall Street’s quarterly earnings and sales estimates, as e-commerce sales jumped and shoppers bought jewelry, luggage and furniture. Here is how the warehouse club did for the fiscal first quarter compared to what Wall Street expected, according to a survey of analysts by LSEG: Earnings per share: $4.04 vs. $3.79 expected […]

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Taxpayers spend 22% more per patient to support Medicare Advantage – the private alternative to Medicare that promised to cost less

Medicare Advantage – the commercial alternative to traditional Medicare – is drawing down federal health care funds, costing taxpayers an extra 22% per enrollee to the tune of US$83 billion a year. Medicare Advantage, also known as Part C, was supposed to save the government money. The competition among private insurance companies, and with traditional […]