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Agricultural commodities

‘When will the beef cycle bottom?’

Ranching: not just gunfights and rodeos

Newspaper industry

Kicking the Telegraph’s tyres

For-sale broadsheet has some metric headaches

Slaying space zombies

The facts and fiction of final-frontier finance

Dismal sci-fi, by Goldman Sachs

Which stocks should you be buying for the year 2075? All of them, of course!

Corporate culture

Wall Street has a new favourite phrase and it’s utterly nauseating

Of mouse and men: the resistible rise of ‘double click’

UK local government finance

Go Woking, go broking?

Leveragin’ la vida local

FTAV’s further reading

Price controls; BIS data; deep value; The Telegraph; nation states; moral decline; Goldman Sachs; Baby Gronk

State’s witnesses (n.pl., fem.)

Former Binance.US chief Catherine Coley speaks

Venture capital investment

‘Attractive women 16% more likely to secure start-up funding’ — study

Looking like a million dollars

A (very short) history of global reserve currencies

How many banks does it take to float an ash maker?

Corporate governance

The Proxies: A celebration of substantial corporate perks

Life’s about more than a salary. It’s about a salary and use of an aircraft

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