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Finance Preview: Barron’s Magazine – July 22, 2024

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BARRON’S MAGAZINE – JULY 22, 2024 ISSUE:

How Trump’s Red Wave Would Reshape the Economy and Markets

Donald Trump’s second presidency would mean more spending and inflation. Investors might like it—at first.

Here Are America’s Top 100 Women Advisors. Their Influence Is Growing.

More women are reaching the upper tiers of the wealth management industry—just in time for a $30 trillion wealth transfer.

Abolish the Federal Reserve? Here’s What Project 2025 Would Do.

The policy statement recommends a revamp of the Fed’s mandate, balance sheet, and response to financial crises.

What the Stock Market’s Wild Week Means for the Next 6 Months

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Saturday Morning: News And Stories From London

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Monocle on Saturday (July 20, 2024): Latika Bourke and Georgina Godwin look through the week’s biggest news and culture stories.

Also, Thomas Heyne, co-founder of Scorpios, discusses ‘Encounters’, this year’s cultural programme at Scorpios Mykonos, which brings together art, nature and technology.

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The New York Times — Saturday, July 20, 2024

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11 Days in July: Inside the All-Out Push to Save the Biden Campaign

President Biden has repeatedly tried to erase the concerns over his age and mental acuity. But nothing has changed the narrative.

Chaos and Confusion: Tech Outage Causes Disruptions Worldwide

Airlines, hospitals and people’s computers were affected after CrowdStrike, a cybersecurity company, sent out a flawed software update.

Evan Gershkovich Sentenced to 16 Years in Russian Prison on Fabricated Charges

The Wall Street Journal reporter’s trial on espionage charges was widely viewed as a sham outside Russia. But the verdict could set the stage for a prisoner exchange.

How Elon Musk Chose Trump

The world’s richest man, once deeply skeptical of Donald J. Trump, has now endorsed him and has emerged as a central character in the presidential race.

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News: Trump Speech At Republican Convention, Japan Countering China

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The Globalist Podcast (July 19, 2024): US-based journalist HJ Mai joins us for the latest from the Republican National Convention as it wraps up in Milwaukee.

Also on the programme: we discuss Japan’s urgency to seek greater engagement to counter China’s influence in the Pacific as leaders meet in Tokyo. And: two weeks on from a Labour landslide in the UK general election, we ask political editor George Parker about the future of the Conservative Party. Plus: we get Andrew Mueller’s wonderful and wacky take on ‘What We Learned’ this week.

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The New York Times — Friday, July 19, 2024

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How Trump Dominated His Own Party on a New G.O.P. Platform

Donald Trump and his team displayed a ruthless efficiency in the process of making a platform, confiscating delegates’ cellphones and stifling dissent and even debate.

People Close to Biden Say He Appears to Accept He May Have to Leave the Race

One person familiar with President Biden’s thinking cautioned that he had not yet made up his mind to leave the race, after three weeks of insisting that almost nothing would drive him out.

Pelosi, Long Fixated on Winning, Is in No Mood to Lose With Biden

The former speaker has been marshaling her knowledge of the political map, polling data and fund-raising information to press her case with President Biden that his re-election is in serious doubt.

Usha Vance and the Iconography of the Trump Women

The potential second lady models a new kind of Republican image-making.

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History Today Magazine – August 2024 Preview

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History Today (July 18, 2024) – The latest issue features ‘The Ethiopians who changed Rome’…

A Dangerous Game on the Jacobean Stage

Original title page for A Game at Chess, 1624. Folger Shakespeare Library. Public Domain.

For nine days Thomas Middleton’s A Game at Chess was the greatest box office phenomenon of the English Renaissance. Then a warrant was issued for his arrest.

Japan, the West and the Treaty of Versailles

Japanese delegates to the Paris Peace Conference, 1919. Standing (left to right): Hikokichi Ijūin and Keishirō Matsui; seated (left to right): Baron Makino Nobuaki, Prince Kinmochi Saionji and Viscount Sutemi Chinda. Library of Congress. Public Domain.

At the outset of the 1919 Paris Peace Conference Japan enjoyed a seat at the top table, but the vexed issue of racial equality set it and its notional Western allies on different paths.

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Research Preview: Science Magazine – July 19, 2024

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‘Science Magazine – July 18, 2024: The new issue features ‘INSIDE OUT’ – Titanium dioxide dehydrogenates propane with help from buried nickel nanoparticles…

The benefits of GLP-1 drugs beyond obesity

Glucagon-like peptide–1–based medicines have weight loss–independent actions

A hard fruit to swallow

Foraging niches become more specialized toward bird range limits

Scientists at odds over wild plans to slow melting glaciers

Call to study glacial geoengineering stirs up “civil war” among polar scientists

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World Archaeology – Aug/Sept 2024 Preview

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WORLD ARCHAEOLOGY (July 18, 2024): The latest issude features ‘Pompeii’ – The biggest dig in a generation; AI and Archaeology – Reconstructing ancient landscapes; Creatures of The Nile – What animals did for Ancient Egypt…

Pompeii: Unearthing Insula 10

The biggest dig at Pompeii in a generation is working to expose nearly an entire block of the ancient city. Archaeologists are making astonishing discoveries that shed powerful new light on life and death in the shadow of Vesuvius, as…

Creatures of the Nile: What animals did for ancient Egypt

Ancient Egypt owed many debts to the creatures that lived in and beside the Nile. Both wild and domesticated animals offered an abundance of food, raw materials, and inspiration. But…

Artificial intelligence rethinks the past: How computers are reconstructing Etruscan and Roman landscapes

What can artificial intelligence bring to archaeology? Maurizio Forte introduces recent work dedicated to reconstructing ancient landscapes, and weighs some of the risks and rewards.

Autoarchaeology at Christiansborg Castle: Digging into ancestral connections to the transatlantic slave trade

The discovery of an unsuspected family link to Christiansborg Castle, Ghana, led to a project examining a forgotten aspect of the transatlantic slave trade. Rachel Ama Asaa Engmann introduces us…

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The Economist Magazine – July 20, 2024 Preview

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The Economist Magazine (July 18, 2024): The latest issue features ‘A TICKET TO WHERE?’ – Where would Donald Trump and J.D. Vance take America?…

Where would Donald Trump and J.D. Vance take America?

The anti-globalist MAGA enthusiast is more consequential than the average veep pick

Euphoric markets are ignoring growing political risks

Investors’ exuberance in the face of political ructions is unlikely to pay off

Inside AI’s black box

Researchers are figuring out how large language models work

Labour’s first week

What does Labour’s win mean for British foreign policy?

Will Biden’s dam break?

Joe Biden is failing to silence calls that he step aside

Ungovernable France

France is desperately searching for a government

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News: EU President Von Der Leyen’s Second Term, China’s Third Plenum

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The Globalist Podcast (July 18, 2024): EU leaders are deciding today on whether to reappoint Ursula von der Leyen as European Commission president. But what would her second term look like?

Then: we examine the reforms being proposed in China’s third plenum and look at Joe Biden’s announcement on Supreme Court changes. Plus: the latest from Dhaka as protests escalate and we discuss the Emmy Awards nominations.