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Tesla stock sale is right but feels so wrong

If it involves a flurry of announcements, filings, subpoena disclosures, a stock with Lebowski levels of insouciance, a surprise equity raise and Larry Ellison backing up the truck, then we must be talking about Tesla. It’s been busy for the electric-vehicle phenomenon. Not long after Tesla Inc. filed its 10-K annual report, the company announced it would sell up to ...

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Is the nuclear family really a curse for America?

When the history of our era is written, scholars will search for larger causes to explain its bitterness and contradictions, despite so much wealth. Was it globalisation? Populism? Economic inequality? Polarisation? Greed? To this list you can now add an unlikely candidate: the nuclear family. In a powerful essay for The Atlantic — “The Nuclear Family Was a Mistake” — ...

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Europe stocks advance on China lift; yen, gold decline

Bloomberg European stocks rose on Monday after Chinese shares advanced with the yuan as investors took encouragement from the Asian country’s pledges to support the world’s second-biggest economy in the face of the coronavirus outbreak. The yen and gold both dipped. Gains in the Stoxx Europe 600 Index were led by automakers and miners. US equity-index futures climbed, though Wall ...

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