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BARRON’S MAGAZINE – JULY 14, 2025 – FINANCE PREVIEW

BARRON’S MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘The Stock Market Has Bounced Back to New Highs. 55 Picks From Our Roundtable Pros.

The Stock Market Has Bounced Back to New Highs. 55 Picks From Our Roundtable Pros.

The challenges of the first half aren’t over, our 11 panelists say. Where they see opportunities for the second half of the year.

Social Security Needs Fixing. What Washington Can Learn From 1983.

Congress ended up raising the retirement age and payroll taxes to make the program solvent.

Venture Capital Bet Big on Gambling. Now It’s Banking on the Addictions.

U.S. VC firms have invested $2 billion in gambling businesses since 2018. At least six of the firms are simultaneously betting on problem gambling treatments.

Americans Are Eating Cheaper. What That Means for the Economy.

Eating habits can provide subtle clues to how consumers are feeling about the economy and their own financial health.

THE ECONOMIST MAGAZINE – JULY 12, 2025 PREVIEW

THE ECONOMIST MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘Scrap the asylum systemAnd build something better…

Scrap the asylum system—and build something better

Rich countries need to separate asylum from labour migration

America cannot dodge the consequences of rising tariffs for ever

Their economic impact has been delayed but not averted

After another leader is brought low, Thailand’s voters need a real choice

The kingdom is stagnating while its elites squabble

Sex hormones could be mental-health drugs too

If they can be liberated from ignorance and hucksterism

BARRON’S MAGAZINE – JULY 7, 2025 – INVESTMENT REVEW

BARRON’S MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ETFs Are Eating the World. The Right—and Wrong—Ways to Invest.

ETFs Are Eating the World. The Right—and Wrong—Ways to Invest.

More than 700 ETFs launched last year, including ones that hold crypto or make leveraged bets on individual stocks like Nvidia. How to make sense of it all.

Tariff Scorecard: Tracking Winners and Losers in the Global Trade War

As the July 9 tariff deadline approaches, expect more deals in coming days, but the drama is far from over. Who is in and who is out—for now.

Clean Energy Got Hit Hard in the Tax Bill. Some Players Still Have a Way to Win.

Last-minute changes to the Republican megabill could benefit big solar and wind developers like Next Era.

My Doctor Told Me to Take My Blood Pressure at Home. She Didn’t Tell Me How Hard It Is.

There are a lot of factors that can distort blood pressure measurements that you take at home.

BARRON’S MAGAZINE —— JUNE 30, 2025 PREVIEW

BARRON’S MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘How Trump’s Tariffs Could Upend the U.S. Auto Industry’…

How Trump’s Tariffs Could Upend the U.S. Auto Industry

President Trump wants an all-American car. U.S. vehicle sales could plunge by as much as 20% if he uses massive levies to get one.

Bonds Have Underperformed. Why You Should Own Them Now.

Barron’s has long favored dividend-paying stocks for those seeking income. But bonds now deserve a hard look because they are so attractively priced.

This Investing Pro Delivers a 5.5% Yield With Low Volatility. Here Are His Secrets.

Ed Perks, manager of the 73-year-old Franklin Income Fund, is investing equally in stocks and bonds, often from the same companies. He shares some picks.

Nuclear Power’s Biggest IPO in Years Is on the Way

Holtec CEO says the plan is to go public within several months. The IPO may be coming at just the right time.

THE ECONOMIST MAGAZINE – JUNE 21, 2025 PREVIEW

THE ECONOMIST MAGAZINE (June 19, 2025): The latest issue features ‘How will this end?‘….

Where will the Iran-Israel war end?

In a worse place if Donald Trump rushes in

To keep Russia out and America in, NATO must spend more

European members need a hard date to boost their defence budgets

Japan’s government bonds: this time it won’t end well

Even as interest costs mount, politicians promise hando

Why MAGA’s pro-natalist plans are ill-conceived

Efforts to deliver a baby boom either fail or cost a fortune

BARRON’S MAGAZINE – JUNE 16, 2025 – INVESTMENT VIEWS

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BARRON’S MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘Internet Interrupted’ – The lifeblood of the internet is drying up. What the decline of search means for users, companies, and stocks.-

Google Search Is Fading. The Whole Internet Could Go With It.

The lifeblood of the internet is drying up. What the decline of search means for users, companies, and stocks.

X’s New Show Was Postponed After a Barron’s Investigation

“Going Public,” a show hosted by X, allows viewers to invest in start-ups. Two of the featured entrepreneurs have a checkered past, Barron’s found.

These Are the Hottest Bond ETFs This Year—and for Good Reason

Treasury-bill ETFs are rapidly gaining in popularity and challenging money-market funds and bank deposits as a place for retail investors to park cash.

This Vanguard Economist Won’t Rule Out 9% Bond Yields

Joe Davis, the firm’s global chief economist, says rates could shoot up if the benefits of AI don’t outweigh the costs of the deficit in coming years.

CHICAGO BOOTH REVIEW – SUMMER 2025 PREVIEW

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CHICAGO BOOTH REVIEW (June 10, 2025): The Summer 2025 issue features how fintech is changing the financial system, whether monopsony is skewing the labor market, and the potential effects of Donald Trump’s economic policies.

Banking Is Getting Easier, but Is It Riskier?

Fintech may be generating unintended consequences for consumers and the industry.

Does Fintech Threaten the Stability of the Financial System?

Regulating new financial products and platforms requires understanding their risks and vulnerabilities.

How AI Can Make Smarter Predictions

Researchers gave AI a way to evaluate and calibrate its own uncertainty.

Are Employers Playing a Game of Monopsony?

Labor’s share of national income has fallen, and competition for workers may have something to do with it.

THE ECONOMIST MAGAZINE – JUNE 7, 2025 PREVIEW

THE ECONOMIST MAGAZINE: The June 7, 2025 issue features ‘Phew, it’s a girl!’ – The stunning decline of boy preference…

The stunning decline of the preference for having boys

Millions of girls were aborted for being girls. Now parents often lean towards them

America’s tax on foreign investors could do more damage than tariffs

Provisions in the Republican budget are a dangerous step

The West is rethinking how to fight wars

Ukraine’s daring raid on Russia has lessons for European armed forces. But they need cash, too

Myanmar is a demonstration of Chinese hegemony in action

China is playing all sides in the country’s bloody civil war

Africa’s most admired dictator rolls the dice

Kagame’s intervention in Congo threatens his legacy at home

BARRON’S MAGAZINE – JUNE 2, 2025 INVESTMENT PREVIEW

BARRON’S MAGAZINE (May 30, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Target at the Tipping Point: What It Needs to Do Now

Target at the Tipping Point: What It Needs to Do Now

The storied company is in a dicey place, plagued by empty shelves, skimpy staff, and messy stores. It’s time for drastic action.

Buy Viking on the Dip. Affluent Travelers Keep Coming Back.

The cruise operator’s stock recently took a hit after cautious management earnings commentary and investor jitters, but it’s well positioned to correct course.4 min read

Heart Disease Could Be a Goner When These New Drugs Arrive

Successful trial results in the next few years could save thousands of lives and generate billions in new annual revenue for drugmakers.

The Economist Magazine – May 31, 2025 Preview

THE ECONOMIST MAGAZINE (May 29, 2025): The latest issue features New, untested and dangerous – A special report on American finance…

American finance, always unique, is now uniquely dangerous

Donald Trump is putting an untested system under almighty strain

Pausing foreign applications to American universities is a terrible idea

The Trump administration hobbles a great American export

First he busted gangs. Now Nayib Bukele busts critics

El Salvador’s president has all the tools of repression he needs to stay in power indefinitely

India needs to turn the air-con on

If its awful air pollution is ever solved the country will get even hotter