Axios

MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell hasn't paid Fox News for advertising since August, a Fox News source tells Axios.

Driving the news: Lindell, who claimed last week that the cable news network had "canceled" his company, told AP that he owes approximately $7.8 million to Fox.

The European lead in terms of ESG investing has widened substantially over the past two years, according to a new analysis by ShareAction that echoes similar findings from Morningstar.

Why it matters: The U.S. is home to the largest fund managers in the world — none more so than BlackRock, a company that turns out to have largely stopped voting for ESG resolutions over the past two years.

Carta's exit from the startup stock trading business ended one of co-founder Henry Ward's early visions for the company, but it's unlikely to affect its valuation or investor expectations.

Why it matters: Building out its secondaries marketplace — dubbed CartaX — has been a bumpy road.

Last Friday, January 5, the day a door plug flew off an Alaska Airlines airplane in mid-flight, was a day in which approximately 120 Americans died in motor vehicle crashes. Roughly 136 died from opioids. Perhaps 150 died as hospital inpatients due to preventable medical errors. About 230 died of COVID-19. And zero died in aircraft accidents.

Why it matters: Air travel is the one part of American daily life where the general public has zero tolerance for any kind of safety lapse.

Bill Ackman, a hard-charging hedge fund manager, is reasonably typical in terms of how he behaves upon publication of a story he doesn't like. Where he's not typical is in his willingness to be open about what he did:

When the "Neri Oxman admits to plagiarism story" broke, I reached out to a board member I knew at BI, and to its controlling shareholders, the co-ceos of KKR, and to Mathias Döpfner, the Chairman and CEO of Axel Springer. I assumed that with a call or two, I would be able to convince BI or AS to suspend the stories.

Gone are the days of "I'll sleep when I'm dead." It's cool to prioritize bedtime now.

Why it matters: Sleep is trending at companies, at colleges and in the media — and there's a growing sleep economy worth billions of dollars, as new gadgets, mattresses, trackers and alarm clocks flood the market.

Turmoil in the Red Sea is taking a turn for the worse, and may create new bottlenecks in an already strained global supply chain.

Why it matters: The situation has become another wild card for a world economy increasingly wracked by instability.