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April 2021 Magazine Exclusive

Ready Player Won: Inside GameStop

Before the Netflix GameStop movie comes out, meet the real people behind the Reddit subthread with this in-depth profile of everyone's favorite Wall Street story from 2021.

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Virtual Thanksgiving

November 24, 2020 Dear Reader, Who would have thought the two main tenants of the American Thanksgiving holiday – traveling to see family and gathering inside for a traditional turkey meal – would...

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November 2020

Virtual Thanksgiving

We gather together to ask…that we actually not gather, after all. Maybe next year! By Alice Lloyd My father doesn’t like Thanksgiving. I’ve never really understood why… He’s generally a...

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Online learning is an oxymoron… Biden and Trump should fear the viral debate moment… Is the market already pricing in a contested election?

Dear reader, The school debate rages on… In my house, we’re three weeks into virtual learning. My elementary and middle school aged sons are adjusting… There have been tech issues and frustration, but...

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September 2020

School’s In! Well, Sort of…

Online Learning Is an Oxymoron By Alice Lloyd Summer’s fading, and fall is creeping in. The first few crisp nights of the season trigger the practically primordial nervous back-to-school feeling… When it dips...

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June 2020

The Millennial Investor

A Generation’s Crisis-Conditioned Approach By Alice Lloyd “Is it safe to come out now?” is the question of the year. It’s top of mind whether your pandemic panic has been predominantly financial, psychological, medical...

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September 2019

What Wall Street Won’t Tell You

The inside story of the iconoclastic accountant who knows what the balance sheet hides. By Alice Lloyd Meet Joel Litman. He strikes an imposing even otherworldly presence… particularly if he’s recently flown in...

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August 2019

Digital Natives May Have Destroyed Drinking

We knew not what we did. By Alice Lloyd So, apparently, it’s the summer of the Aperol Spritz. It could always be worse. Six years ago was the summer of the cicada, when their buzzing bodies swarmed the east coast in an...

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July 2019

What I Like About U.(S.A.)

Even #Resistance feels patriotic sometimes, doesn’t it? By Alice Lloyd It’s not necessarily a rational feeling, the patriotic stir. It has too many triggers to count, the strongest of which catches us unawares and...

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April 2019

Red Scare

A majority of millennials favor socialism – how did this happen? By Alice Lloyd It was September 2016, and Hillary Clinton had a youth problem. In a conference room at Democratic National Committee headquarters on...

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