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October 15, 2024 • Estimated Reading Time: 5 minutes

Revealing New York’s Mysterious Celebrity Hangman From Queens

On hanging days, he was the “master of ceremonies,” a gentleman of the gallows. He was Monsieur de New York, the city’s hangman, but his true identity was a highly guarded secret. Stories quickly sprung up speculating about the man in the dark suit and the executioner’s hood. Was he a butcher by trade or a market clerk, a famous shot or simply a deputy sheriff? Just who was M. de New York?

Today’s Must Reads

• The Biden-Harris administration’s big bet on Intel to lead a US chipmaking renaissance is in grave trouble. Meanwhile, semiconductor sales in the Americas outpaced those in China for the first time in at least five years.

• Goldman Sachs economists cautioned that the US economy faces a hit if Donald Trump wins the November election and imposes tariffs and immigration restrictions.

• China’s top electric-vehicle maker BYD won’t announce a major plant investment in Mexico until at least after the US election. Meanwhile, Chery Automobile’s Omoda outsold Tesla, Jeep and Fiat in Spain last month, a promising sign for the Chinese automaker’s ambitious push into Europe.

• Cathay Pacific Airways may not be able to put all of its Airbus SE A350 aircraft back into service as quickly as hoped due a parts shortage.

• Michael Froman, president of the Council on Foreign Relations and former US Trade Representative under President Barack Obama, discusses American foreign policy after the US presidential election on this week’s Voternomics podcast.

• In this episode of the Talking Transports podcast, Brian Fyda, vice president of Fyda Freightliner, shares his insights into how truck dealers are navigating the challenges of higher costs and emissions rules.

PLACES TO EXPLORE

SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS
A Forgotten Mansion

Once one of the grandest buildings in a city of grand buildings, this mansion now sits neglected, crumbling and hidden away, far removed from its opulent origins.

It has been more than five years since former President Donald J. Trump called himself a “Tariff Man,” but since then, his enthusiasm for tariffs seems only to have grown.

Mr. Trump has long maintained that imposing tariffs on foreign products can protect American factories, narrow the gap between what the United States exports and what it imports, and bring uncooperative foreign governments to heel. While in office, Mr. Trump used the threat of tariffs to try to convince Mexico to stop the flow of undocumented immigrants across the U.S. border, and to sway China to enter into a trade deal with the United States.

It has been more than five years since former President Donald J. Trump called himself a “Tariff Man,” but since then, his enthusiasm for tariffs seems only to have grown.

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It has been more than five years since former President Donald J. Trump called himself a “Tariff Man,” but since then, his enthusiasm for tariffs seems only to have grown.

Mr. Trump has long maintained that imposing tariffs on foreign products can protect American factories, narrow the gap between what the United States exports and what it imports, and bring uncooperative foreign governments to heel. While in office, Mr. Trump used the threat of tariffs to try to convince Mexico to stop the flow of undocumented immigrants across the U.S. border, and to sway China to enter into a trade deal with the United States.