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Hedge fund heir Alex Lasry's Milwaukee Bucks have raised season ticket prices amid rising inflation Wisconsin Senate candidate and Milwaukee Bucks executive Alex Lasry blames corporate "greed" for the rising cost of consumer goods. But his NBA franchise has jacked up season ticket prices, drawing criticism from longtime fans who say the coveted passes are now only affordable for corporations and the ultra-rich. "Inflation is a tax on working people driven by corporations and their greed—it's time we make the economy work for the people not against them," Lasry wrote on Twitter in April. But Lasry has been silent as...

Democrats could bring chaos to the U.S. economy if they take back Congress, a top Clinton donor warned on CNBC on Wednesday. Marc Lasry, who has fundraised for and advised the former secretary of state, told a panel on the business network that Democrats’ obsession with investigating President Trump “could lead to a shakeup in the stock market.”

The big spenders who shelled out $30,400 a head for dinner with President Obama at the Four Seasons restaurant and at Anna Wintour's house didn't actually break any bread with him. After starting Tuesday night at a dinner for 60 high-rolling Democratic supporters hosted by hedge-fund billionaire Marc Lasry, Obama headed to a private room at the Four Seasons to wolf down steak, potatoes and broccoli with two aides before heading to Wintour's Greenwich Village home. Obama also gave a brief speech, saying he's not worried about his low poll numbers and he plans to tour the nation to drive...

What is it with Dems and hedge funds? Not long ago we learned that Mr. Two Americas worked for one. Today we find out, in a front-page profile in the New York Times, that Chelsea Clinton also works for a hedge fund. But the Times was strangely shy about divulging the fact. Only those who persisted through 18 paragraphs and 977 words were rewarded with that noteworthy nugget. And even when the Times did get around to informing us, it managed to find a sympathetic spin to place on Chelsea's decision to work for what many liberals like to portray...