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How not to run an investment bank

Natixis SA’s 14 years as a publicly traded bank will be best forgotten. Losses during the global financial crisis pushed the French firm, which trades securities and owns an asset manager, to the edge soon after its 2006 creation. While the company has been profitable since then, repeated trading losses and funds that ran wild have been a constant reminder ...

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Tech is a major topic on the Clubhouse

In the technology world, this may be remembered as the month when Clubhouse started to matter. Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg made appearances on the service. For a short time, Chinese-language discussions dealt with the Xinjiang issue in a frank and open manner, attracting wide public attention. If you don’t already know, Clubhouse is a year-old social media service consisting ...

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Republicans’ excuses for not convicting Trump

The Senate’s impeachment trial of Donald Trump is unprecedented: It’s the first time a president has been tried twice, and the first time an ex-president has been tried at all. The fact that it is taking place is a testament to how outrageous Trump’s conduct was in his last months in office. Even opponents of the impeachment trial, such as ...

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