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Al Lewis

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Covers:  business and finance, business, entrepreneurs, economics, public companies, white collar crime, private companies, ceos
Doesn't Cover: book reviews
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Al Lewis is business editor of the Houston Chronicle. Prior to joining the Chronicle he wrote columns for The Wall Street Journal Sunday, Dow Jones News Wires and MarketWatch, offering an unconventional perspective on the business headlines of the day.

He also blogs at tellittoal.com and makes frequent media appearances, discussing business trends and developments. He often appears on Fox Business and discusses his column on Denver’s 9News, KUSA-TV on Sunday mornings, usually a little after 7:1…

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'Please, Tell Us More.' Columnist Al Lewis finds out what a big data miner knows about him.

'Please, Tell Us More.' Columnist Al Lewis finds out what a big data miner knows about him.

Columnist for The Wall Street Journal Sunday.

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Cut Staff, Get Money

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By Al Lewis Verified
| businessblunders.com
“A lifetime of treatment is preferable to a cure.”– Elisabeth Rosenthal UnitedHealthcare coded its members as sicker than they were so it could overcharge the state of Massachusetts’ Medicaid system by more than $100 million, according to a lawsuit filed by the state’s attorney general on Friday. The nation’s largest health insurer pursued a “growth-at-all-costs strategy” through its Senior Care Options program, the lawsuit alleges.
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You can stuff that colonoscopy. Here's something better.

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By Al Lewis Verified
| quizzify.com
This blog post is about colon screening, not colon testing. If you have an actual reason to need a colonoscopy other than you haven't had one for 10 years or just turned 45, far be it from us to stand in your way. Time to talk about the dreaded colonoscopy. The first good news is that, as you can tell from all the store window displays and promotions, March is colorectal cancer awareness month.
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Charles Ponzi - Boston Swindler

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By Al Lewis Verified
| businessblunders.com
Charles Ponzi – Born March 3, 1882. Died Jan. 18, 1949. (Photo credits: Wikimedia Commons, AI generated background.) Hardly a week goes by before prosecutors or regulators expose a new a Ponzi scheme. Italian immigrant Charles Ponzi didn’t invent this classic grift, but in the 1920s he ran it so well that he branded it for perpetuity. Read More:15 Tales Of Lost Ponzi Riches(Business Blunders) Countless scams later, you never hear anyone say they got taken in a Madoff scheme.
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What was your first job as a journalist?

Copley News Service intern in Illinois State Capitol.

How is social media changing news?

People are writing to build audiences, rather than to inform.

What does it mean to be a journalist?

Long hours.
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