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The chairman of the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics, Casey Wasserman, has slashed the asking price of his his designer, Stanley Kubrick-inspired L.A. abode by an eye-watering $2.6 million.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 23, 2026

State Farm has slashed premiums by 20% in total since 2024.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 16, 2026

Buffett suggested in annual shareholder letters that Apple might be a forever stock, but he has slashed that holding by about 75% over the past two years to 238 million shares now worth $60 billion.

From Barron's • Jan. 16, 2026

In August, Spirit filed for bankruptcy protection and has slashed routes, relinquished gates to legacy airlines, and furloughed more than 2,000 pilots and flight attendants.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 5, 2026

If Tennyson has been unduly afraid of remodelling history, the author of Marie Tudor has known no such scruples; he has slashed into the sacred chart with the shears of a romantique of 1830.

From Views and Reviews by James, Henry