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        <title><![CDATA[Gary Sernovitz - Freelance Contributor]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[The US Oil Industry Doesn’t Want the Iran War Either]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[American producers are uncomfortable about being viewed as instruments of Donald Trump’s foreign policy.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 11:00:10 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Lloyd Blankfein’s Unapologetic Case for Goldman Sachs]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[The former CEO’s memoir Streetwise is a love letter to the firm that forged him and a defense of the culture that made it dominant.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2026 10:00:02 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[In ‘Vigil,’ George Saunders Asks: Can An Oil CEO Repent?]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[The author’s second novel treats executive decision-making not as backdrop, but as the moral engine of the story.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2026 12:00:32 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[How Keeping Score Makes Games Fun and Life Worse]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[A new book contrasts the meditative joy of games with the way metrics capture what we value, and how we judge ourselves.]]></description>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-09/from-dungeons-dragons-to-wine-ratings-from-dungeons-dragons-to-wine-ratings</link>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2026 11:00:17 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[What Reliving the 1929 Crash Tells Us About Today’s Stock Market]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[In 1929, Andrew Ross Sorkin re-creates the euphoria and mania that led to the most famous stock market slump in history.]]></description>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-19/what-andrew-ross-sorkin-s-1929-tells-us-about-today-s-stock-market</link>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 19 Sep 2025 11:00:30 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[What to Do About a World Obsessed With Status]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Toby Stuart’s Anointed argues that while status-seeking is human nature, the internet has supercharged its influence.]]></description>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-05/how-ai-will-change-the-way-we-assign-status</link>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2025 08:00:18 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Are We Approaching Peak Lobster?]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[From the coasts of Maine to Chinese banquet halls, Greg Mercer’s The Lobster Trap traces a luxury food’s uncertain future.]]></description>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-15/the-global-lobster-rush-might-break-the-industry</link>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2025 10:00:32 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[A Brisk History of How Greed Became Good]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Paul Vigna’s The Almightier examines long-forgotten texts to understand the evolving relationship between morals and money.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2025 09:00:12 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Private Equity Doesn’t Actually Want to Kill the American Dream]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Megan Greenwell’s Bad Company fails to deliver on its thesis that the business model only succeeds at the expense of portfolio companies.]]></description>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-06/private-equity-doesn-t-actually-want-to-kill-the-american-dream</link>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2025 12:30:12 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Mark Twain Died Famous, Not Happy]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[In a new biography, Ron Chernow covers the sadness at the end of Twain’s life.]]></description>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-04-18/-mark-twain-by-ron-chernow-examines-sadness-as-much-as-success</link>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2025 07:00:32 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Venture Capital’s ‘Blitzscaling’ Obsession Is Warping the World]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Catherine Bracy takes Silicon Valley monoculture to task in a new book.]]></description>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-03-07/venture-capital-s-blitzscaling-obsession-is-warping-the-world</link>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 07 Mar 2025 14:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[What Makes America Great? Modern Corporate Finance]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Donald Chew’s new book looks at how certain ideas made the US the most successful nation at generating wealth, if not economic growth.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 14 Feb 2025 14:30:09 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Bill Gates’s Source Code Is a Thank You Letter to Lax Parenting]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[In a memoir of his childhood, the Microsoft founder attributes his success to a mix of freedom and luck.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 07 Feb 2025 13:00:50 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Malcolm Gladwell and Nate Silver Try to Explain the World — Again]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[On the Edge and Revenge of the Tipping Point both aim to inspire their readers.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 20 Dec 2024 14:00:02 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Best Wall Street Book of 2024 Is Also the Least Salacious]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Carrie Sun’s Private Equity, Alok Sama’s The Money Trap and Gary Stevenson’s The Trading Game reveal what makes a good book about finance — and what doesn’t.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 06 Dec 2024 11:00:02 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Taylor Swift’s Business Savvy Flies in the Face of Modern Marketing]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[A new book breaks down her mass appeal.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 08 Nov 2024 14:00:26 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Intelligent Investor Is Still Worth Reading 75 Years Later]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[The book is less about how to make money than how not to be an idiot.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 25 Oct 2024 13:00:16 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Why Do We Keep Reading About Elon Musk?]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Three new books this year examine his 2022 purchase of Twitter.]]></description>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Gary Sernovitz]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Fri, 18 Oct 2024 11:00:27 GMT</pubDate>
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