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“Klara and the Sun” keeps insisting we feel things when the storytelling hasn’t earned our tears or despair.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026
Kettner has earned a reputation on Wall Street and in Europe for making prescient market calls.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 22, 2026
"We've earned a strong period but nothing about it is owed to us going forward," said Mitchell.
From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026
During the streak, he has thrown 51 innings and allowed just four earned runs, for a microscopic ERA of 0.71.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026
He’d graduated from the University of Rhode Island, earned a business degree at Babson College, and spent most of his career working sleepy jobs at sleepy life insurance companies—but all that was in the past.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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