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If you were to read only one thing… Bloomberg Businessweek - Ronaldo Is Hawking One of the World's Riskiest Derivatives - Donal Griffin 9/20 * The product: Contracts For Difference (CFDs) * "CFDs, called 'a volatile form of gambling' by an Irish judge in 2014, make up one
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Perspective WSJ - Daily Shot: US Auto Fuel Efficiency 9/7 NYT - An Enormous, Urgent Task: Hauling Away Harvey's Debris - John Schwartz and Alan Blinder 9/6 * "Of all the challenges that southeast Texas faces after Hurricane Harvey, few will linger longer or more visibly than the millions
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Perspective WSJ - Daily Shot: WEF - National per capita GDP without capital cities 9/5 Worthy Insights / Opinion Pieces / Advice WSJ - Workers: Fear Not the Robot Apocalypse - Greg Ip 9/5 FT - Will stability become the new watchword for the oil market? - Anjli Raval 9/5 * "The oil world is
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If you were to read only one thing… FT - China rewrites history with new censorship drive - Ben Bland 9/4 * "First it put the squeeze on ideologically impure academics. Then it tried to censor foreign publishers such as Cambridge University Press. Now President Xi Jinping’s government is intensifying
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Perspective FT - Taxpayers face lion's share of $50bn storm Harvey bill - Alistair Gray 8/30 * "Tropical storm Harvey is shaping up to be one of the three costliest natural disasters in modern US history." * "As the system encircles the devastated region for a sixth consecutive
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Perspective WP - A close-up view of the flooding in Houston - Denise Lu, Aaron Williams, Dan Keating, Jack Gillum and Laris Karklis 8/29 WSJ - Harvey's Test: Businesses Struggle With Flawed Insurance as Floods Multiply 8/29 WSJ - Harvey Makes Landfall in Louisiana as Waters Keep Rising in
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Perspective VC - The World's 50 Most Valuable Sports Teams - Jeff Desjardins 8/24 Worthy Insights / Opinion Pieces / Advice Bloomberg View - Millennials Are Driving the Suburban Resurgence - Justin Fox, Conor Sen, Noah Smith 8/25 Real Estate The Real Deal - Treasury Department finally adds teeth to LLC disclosure rule
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Perspective Visual Capitalist - Interactive: tableau - Visualizing Median Income For All 3,000+ U.S. Counties - Jeff Desjardins 8/22 Worthy Insights / Opinion Pieces / Advice Bloomberg View - The Energy Revolution Will Be Optimized - Liam Denning 8/16 * "The primary job of the 20th-century oil major or utility was to
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Perspective WSJ - Daily Shot: Business Insider - Most Popular Food Restaurants by State 8/21 Bloomberg - How Far Does $1 Million Go in Retirement - Suzanne Woolley 8/21 Bloomberg View - Trump-Friendly Idaho Doesn't Put America First - Matthew Winkler 8/18 Worthy Insights / Opinion Pieces / Advice The Registry - McNellis:
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Perspective FT - Over $9tn of bonds trade with negative yields - Eric Platt 8/16 * "Along with central bank interest rate cuts — including setting unprecedented negative rates in Europe and Japan — the bond-buying programs explain why $9tn still trades with a negative yield, and why sub-zero rates are
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If you were to read only one thing… FT - IMF warns China over 'dangerous' levels of debt - Tom Mitchell 8/15 * "In an annual review of the world’s second-largest economy, IMF staff said China’s annual economic growth would average 6.4% in 2018-20,
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Perspective FT - The long and winding road to economic recovery - Claire Manibog and Stephen Foley 8/9 Data Is Beautiful - City maps from Airbnb location ratings - txafer 8/9 Worthy Insights / Opinion Pieces / Advice Bason Asset Management - Shame, Status and The American Dream - James Osborne 7/24 * Sometimes less is