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Covers:  consumer affairs, finance, radical politics, wall street, fraud, iran, israel, middle east
Journalist since hot type, author of Retail Gangster: The Insane, Real-Life Story of Crazy Eddie (now in paperback!)

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Journalist and author. Most recent book was "Ayn Rand Nation: The Hidden Struggle for America's Soul" (St. Martin's Press, Feb. 2012). Longtime BusinessWeek investigative reporter, and also was a contributing editor to Condé Nast Portfolio. Have freelanced for numerous publications, and appear regularly on cable news shows. Adjunct professor at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

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MCP Server Monetization 2026

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By Gary Weiss Verified
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Something has been bothering me about MCP and I think I've figured out what the issue is :) There are tens of thousands of MCP Servers listed in registries and marketplaces, but most of them are not really useful... Good implementations exist, but then they were typically authored by companies with some form of vested interest, in that they want your AI Agent to work smoothly with their products (think AWS, GitHub, Stripe). Makes sense.
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By Gary Weiss Verified
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A riveting true crime thrill-ride through the spectacular rise and fall of Eddie “Crazy Eddie” Antar, whose home electronics empire took the world by storm—until a federal investigation exposed it as one of the biggest business scams in history When Eddie Antar passed away in 2016, millions of people mourned the loss of someone they’d known as "Crazy Eddie,” the man behind the successful chain of electronic stores and one of the most iconic ad campaigns in history.
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The Pathetic Irwin Lipkin: a Bernard Madoff Reminiscence

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By Gary Weiss Verified
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The recent Madoff two-part series on ABC, starring a very convincing Richard Dreyfuss, brought back a flood of memories of my own very limited experience with this long-vanished but still fascinating story. Apart from this article in the old Condé Nast Portfolio I haven't written much, but I did have the interesting experience of attending one of the last acts of this drama. It was the last criminal proceeding in the case, the August 2015 sentencing of a Madoff factotum named Irwin Lipkin.
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