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All Roads Lead to Lending Why every consumer internet company on earth eventually becomes a loan book, and why the ones that pretend otherwise go broke. In November 2020, the People's Bank of China cancelled the largest IPO in history. Ant Group was three days from listing at
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There is a moment in Craig Brewer’s Song Sung Blue, somewhere between the sequinned jumpsuits and the dive bar fistfight, where you realise you are not watching a film about Neil Diamond at all. You are watching a film about the people who carry a famous man’s music
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And why India's gaming ban is less about protecting its citizens than settling a trillion-rupee tax bill There is a well-worn narrative about sports and gambling. Sports create the spectacle. Gambling follows. One is the product; the other is the parasite. India just ran the most
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Intelligence gets the trophy. Hard work gets the applause. Pattern recognition quietly does all the work and never gets the credit. It is time to fix that. There is a moment in every Virat Kohli press conference, usually after a particularly clinical chase or a spell of bowling he set