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These kinds of considerations explain why, on April 29th, Bill Ackman raised $5bn for a new “closed-end” fund, from which ...

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Our report from 1974 ...

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Yet it would be a mistake to doubt the sincerity of China’s verdict that America’s best days are past it. This worldview, ...