Investors are returning to hedge funds. That may be unwise
Look beyond the current turbulence
Superheroes are useless when times are good. If Gotham was a safe and pleasant place, Batman would probably just spend his days relaxing in a mansion upstate. Superman only ducks into a phone booth to reveal his blue-and-red lycra when the bad guys are holding someone up at gunpoint.
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Finance & economics October 28th 2023
- How health-care costs stopped rising
- America would struggle to break Iran’s oil-smuggling complex
- Investors are returning to hedge funds. That may be unwise
- Xi Jinping steps up his attempt to rescue China’s economy
- America and the EU demonstrate protectionism’s ratchet effect
- Welcome to the age of the hermit consumer
- Israel’s war economy is working—for the time being
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