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Finance Preview: Barron’s Magazine-October 14, 2024

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BARRON’S MAGAZINE (October 12, 2024): The latest issue features ‘Hidden Drug Deals’ –

PBMs’ Backroom Negotiations Revealed in Confidential Files

PBMs are under the microscope for allegedly inflating drug prices. New Barron’s reporting raises broader questions about the industry—and its role in the opioid crisis.

Insurer Stocks Ride Out Hurricanes With Manageable Losses. How to Play Them Now.

Share prices of insurers bounced back when Hurricane Milton caused less damage than forecast. Here’s how to play the sector now.

Berkshire Hathaway and Cathie Wood Own Nu Holdings Stock. Why You Should, Too.

Nubank, Latin America’s largest fintech bank, has the ability to grow globally. A recent pullback in its parent company’s shares offers an attractive entry point.

Tech Investing in Private Markets Takes Guts. Know the Risks.

There are several ways for retail investors to trade shares of hot tech start-ups that don’t trade publicly. But know the potential pitfalls before jumping in.

Oil’s ‘War Premium’ Is Back. Can Prices Top $100?

As violence escalates in the Middle East, traders are scooping up oil-sensitive stocks and options. It’s a risky strategy.

Own ‘Junk’ in Your Retirement Portfolio? It’s Not as Crazy as It Sounds.

Default rates are low and yields top 7%. How to invest in the upper tiers of the high-yield bond world.

Emerging Markets Are Finally Taking Off. Stocks and Funds to Buy.

The recent rally in Chinese stocks gives long-suffering investors in emerging markets reasons to be optimistic.

Art: ‘Vincent van Gogh – Life and Light in Provence’

The National Gallery (October 11, 2024): Journey to the south of France and witness the landscapes that so inspired Vincent van Gogh and the painting techniques that have made him famous today. Travel through Arles and Saint-Rémy – from the banks of the Rhône to the hospital where he stayed.

See for yourself the locations that made their way onto Van Gogh’s canvases. ‘Van Gogh: Poets and Lovers’ is a once-in-a-century exhibition that brings together paintings from across the globe, some rarely seen in public. Track Vincent’s work through 1888 and 1889, the two most artistically fruitful years in his life.

Van Gogh: Poets and Lovers 14 September 2024 – 19 January 2025

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The New York Times Magazine – Oct. 13, 2024

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THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE (October 11, 2024): The latest issue features ‘Al Pacino Is Still Going Big’…

The Interview – Al Pacino Is Still Going Big

Al Pacino has been one of the world’s greatest, most influential actors for more than 50 years. He’s audacious. He’s outrageous. He’s Al Pacino, and I’m pretty sure you know what that entails.

Why France’s Most Controversial Novelist Is Also Its Most Celebrated

Reviled as much as he is lauded, Michel Houellebecq holds up a mirror to a world we would rather not see.

Should Famous People Be Telling Us This Much About Their Illnesses?

For some celebrities, revealing all is part of the product. For others, it looks like a deeply unpleasant chore.

By Mireille Silcoff

Preview: The New Atlantis Magazine – Fall 2024

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The New Atlantis Magazine (October 10, 2024) : The latest issue features ‘The Builder Issue’ – Why we don’t build…

Mass. Exodus

Massachusetts is one of the richest states in the country — because it’s pricing out its own middle class. Why did the state stop building enough to house them?

Will Anyone Vote for Abundance?

“Time to build” is a great idea. But it’s not clear that liberals or conservatives really want it.

If We Can Do It In Baltimore…

Why it takes a disaster to build fast

We Don’t Need This Much Permitting

What matters is whether building projects actually follow the law, not whether they promise to in advance.

Research Preview: Science Magazine – Oct. 11, 2024

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Science Magazine – October 10, 2024: The new issue features ‘Graphene at 20’ – New forms, and a brighter future, for the storied material…

El Niño fingered as likely culprit in record 2023 temperatures

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Research suggests swings in Pacific Ocean can account for planet’s sudden and perplexing temperature jump

The Economist Magazine – October 12, 2024 Preview

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The Economist Magazine (October 10, 2024): The latest issue features ‘The Trumpification of American Policy’….

The Trumpification of American policy

No matter who wins in November, Donald Trump has redefined both parties’ agendas

The front line of the tech war is in Asia

The two superpowers are vying for influence. China will not necessarily win

Who will control the next Congress?

The new president is much less likely than usual to see allies take charge on Capitol Hill

Britain should not hand the Chagos Islands to Mauritius

Once again, the Chagossians have been denied a say

The Atlantic Magazine – November 2024 Preview

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The Atlantic Magazine – October 9, 2024: The latest issue features Tom Nichols on How Donald Trump Is the Tyrant George Washington Feared

The Moment of Truth

The reelection of Donald Trump would mark the end of George Washington’s vision for the presidency—and the United States.By Tom Nichols

The Trump Believability Gap

Voters detest the things that Trump wants to do. But they just don’t believe he’ll follow through.By David A. Graham

Why Politicians Lie

And how to get them to stopBy Bill Adair

Israel and Hamas Are Kidding Themselves

Arts/Books: Times Literary Supplement – Oct. 11, 2024

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Times Literary Supplement (October 9, 2024): The latest issue features ‘This English House’ – W.H. Auden’s changing view of home by Seamus Perry…

Country Life Magazine – October 9, 2024 Preview

Country Life Magazine (October 8, 2024): The latest issue features

Daffy goes digital

Annie Tempest’s inimitable characters totter gently into the modern age with a new website

Mud, mud, glorious mud

Dogs, birds, pigs and humans alike follow hippopotami down the hollow. Deborah Nicholls-Lee dons her wellies and joins them

A sense of time and place

Ben Pentreath unravels what makes an interior English, that indefinable, yet instantly recog-nisable and beguiling aesthetic

Made in the Marches

The border of England and Wales is proving inspiring for artisanal craftsmen, finds Arabella Youens

Mixing old and new

Country Life’s Interiors Editor Giles Kime opens the doors to his revived 17th-century cottage

New looks for a new season

From bamboo bookshelves to lamps and pots, Amelia Thorpe chooses accessories to covet

Turi King’s favourite painting

The scientist and historian picks a powerful royal portrait   

Growing pains

Minette Batters takes her seat in the House of Lords

The right place to build

The historic streetscapes of our towns and cities reveal lessons we still need to learn about how to build, believes Ptolemy Dean

The legacy

Kate Green salutes Dorothy Brooke and the global equine charity that bears her name

Antlered majesty

Manmade, yet wild, deer parks prove we can create Arcadia, asserts John Lewis-Stempel

Timber of the gods

Jack Watkins admires the huge, ancient and once-exotic cedars that punctuate our landscapes

The good stuff

Hetty Lintell tallies her trinkets

Interiors

An imaginative kitchen extension and tea-tinged fabrics

Building on great bone structure

The good bones that anchor the gardens of Foscote Manor, Buckinghamshire, please the eye of George Plumptre

Foraging

John Wright raises a dram of home-made vodka to the crab apple      

Operation mincemeat

Always comforting, cottage pie satisfies Tom Parker Bowles

Salt of the earth

Pick up a handful or several of salted peanuts when you’re next in the pub, urges Rob Crossan

I have news for ewe

The humble sheep changed the course of British art history, reveals Bendor Grosvenor

Preview: The New Yorker Magazine-October 14, 2024

A busy city street seen through an overpass in Jackson Heights Queens.

The New Yorker (October 7, 2024): The latest issue features Victoria Tentler-Krylov’s “New Heights” – Sunlight flickering on the hustle and bustle of the streets.

Trump’s Dangerous Immigration Obsession

The daily stream of racism and mendacity has had a numbing effect. But the question of what Trump might actually do is a prospect that voters cannot afford to ignore. By Jonathan Blitzer

Silicon Valley, the New Lobbying Monster

From crypto to A.I., the tech sector is pouring millions into super PACS that intimidate politicians into supporting its agenda. By Charles Duhigg

Sleep Essential for Health

Donald Trump is lying next to you in the bed, wearing snug cotton pajamas printed to look like his signature blue suit. You want to tell him a few things you think he ought to know, but his fake snoring drowns you out. By Ian Frazier