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Surprise! California’s 40 Qs of Rising Minimum Wage & Fast Food Industry Growth (Beating USA)

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To prove their point, a number of friendly commentators, academics, and hired guns all wrote endless white papers, Op-Eds and commentaries. But they made one super-sized mistake: they cheated with the numbers. Its numbers are fake (June 12, 2024) Can Stanford tell the difference between scientific fact and fiction?

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10 Biggest Ideas in “How NOT to Invest”

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The challenge in writing How NOT to Invest was organizing a large number of ideas, many of which were only loosely connected, into something coherent, understandable, and, most importantly, readable. What does the endless stream of news, social media, TikToks, Tweets, magazines, and television do to our ability to make good decisions?

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MiB: Zeke Faux, Number Go Up

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He has won the Gerald Loeb Award for explanatory journalism and the American Bar Association’s Silver Gavel Award , and was a National Magazine Award finalist. He is the author of Number Go Up: Inside Crypto’s Wild Rise and Staggering Fall. PGIM is one of the world’s largest asset managers, running $1.27

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allstarcharts.com) It's hard to wrap your head around the numbers with Nvidia's ($NVDA) new chips. hbr.org) Why you can ignore all the magazine cover commentary. (wsj.com) TIPS are one again outperforming. spyglass.org) AI is coming for every company you own. theirrelevantinvestor.com) Why has the EV market stalled out?

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MiB: Kyla Scanlon on Vibecessions & Gen Z

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She has been published at Bloomberg, New York Magazine, FT, and the NYT. Cutter has put-up impressive numbers since its 2022 launch, and now manages more than $500 million in institutional assets. Her new book “ In This Economy?: How Money & Markets Really Work ” just came out this Summer.

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1970 Maserati Ghibli 4.7 Coupe

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American magazine Sports Car International named it number 9 on its list of Top Sports Cars of the 1960s. Dual air vents in its hood, chrome fender vent spears, and what looks like the longest bonnet ever made created a unique design for this Maserati V8 grand tourer.

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10 Weekend Reads

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New York Magazine ) • Medicine’s Endgame: The past, present, and future of cell-based therapy : Cell-based therapies sound like science fiction. NYT Magazine ) • These Moons Are Dark and Frozen. He is the author of the new book, “ Number Go Up: Inside Crypto’s Wild Rise and Staggering Fall.”

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