Florida owns a massive property insurance company that’s been gobbling up policies while rates rise and some private insurers leave... more

Last summer, a Mexican beer overtook the longtime favorite Bud Light as America’s best-selling beer. It happened amid a customer... more

The Disney we know today came about in a series of game-changing deals led by CEO Bob Iger. But before... more

Ray Dalio founded the firm that became the world’s largest hedge fund more than 40 years ago. For years, he... more

Once a “unicorn”, WeWork has filed for bankruptcy. The co-working company was once valued at $47 billion, but it’s had... more

Back in 2019, an unlikely deal took Wall Street and the oil industry by surprise. Occidental Petroleum, commonly called Oxy,... more

Google’s path to going public was rather untraditional from the start. The IPO included secret meetings at Denny’s, an infamous... more

When luxury behemoth LVMH tapped Marc Jacobs to lead Louis Vuitton back in 1997, it also acquired the designer’s eponymous... more

Fearing an energy crisis following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, a little-known policy wonk convinced the Biden Administration to help drive... more

The story of Jet.com, its founder Marc Lore, and how the startup helped retail giant Walmart sharpen its ecommerce edge... more

Deals change the world, and season 3 of The Closer brings you the inside story of those deals, as told... more

There’s a new season of The Closer coming soon — but before it does, we have a special episode to... more

Season 3 of The Closer is coming very soon — and we want to know what you want to hear... more

Vince McMahon took over his father’s regional wrestling business in the 1980s, and made it into an international media and... more

The Carlyle Group, one of the world’s largest private equity firms, has quietly built a deal-making machine that's gobbling up... more

In early 2020, the home-sharing platform was poised to make a splashy debut on the public markets later that year.... more

When private equity-backed PetSmart bought Chewy.com for more than $3bn in 2017, people thought the retailer was doomed. Within just... more

We take you inside the final days of Toys R Us with Lauren Hirsch, the reporter who first revealed the... more

The US Women's National Soccer Team is among the most decorated teams in the game but, until recently, was paid... more

From Project Brazen and PRX, this is season 2 of The Closer, out now. The Closer returns with six dramatic new... more

A new kind of money is flooding into professional sports: sovereign wealth. Aimee and Ben check in on Saudi Arabia's ownership... more

HBO and Discovery are getting a new streaming home. This week, Warner Bros Discovery rolled out "Max," its new unified... more

Hundreds of thousands of Japanese companies have a problem – their founders are aging without a successor in sight. One... more

The Oakland A’s are one step closer to a move to Las Vegas, reaching a deal this week for a... more

The financial press has been reporting on a big trend in dealmaking: it's way down this year, especially in comparison... more

Bed Bath & Beyond's decline and fall is complete. The iconic home goods retailer said this week that it was... more

Alongside the release of Netflix's quarterly earnings, the streaming service announced two big pieces of news this week. One, that... more

This week, we're looking at a deal one of our listeners on Twitter asked us to cover. It's JetBlue's $3.8bn... more

Two of the biggest names in fighting, WWE and Endeavor’s UFC, are coming together to form a new, publicly traded... more

Shares in Chinese e-commerce company Alibaba jumped this week after founder Jack Ma made a rare visit to mainland China,... more

JP Morgan Chase thought it owned 54 metric tonnes of nickel, the most highly valued base metal. The bank had... more

Financial Times journalist Tabby Kinder was one of the first to report on weaknesses at Silicon Valley Bank. In this... more

David Bowie: ground-breaking musician; artistic shape-shifter; style icon; and ... savvy financial player? We dive into “Bowie Bonds” with the... more

When Brazilian private investment firm 3G took over Kraft and Heinz, they thought they had a perfect plan. The Closer... more

A scrappy startup wanted to help people sort their medications, and in the process took on some of the titans... more

An exec at the center of Whatsapp’s $19 billion sale explains how the deal finally came together and the dispiriting... more

WeWork’s failed IPO was a stunning failure that played out in daily – at times, hourly – headlines around the... more

The 2013 merger between American Airlines and US Airways created the world’s largest airline. But it also marked the ascent... more

The inside story of the deals that changed the world, as told by the people who know how it all... more