Jeremy Lin

2 weeks ago | publishersweekly.com | Deborah Baker |Quinn Slobodian |Robin Givhan |Jeremy Lin

Madeline Potter. Harper, $27.99 (272p) ISBN 978-0-06-333766-4English literature PhD Potter debuts with an elegant and impressive history of the Roma people. She traces how governments have sought to eject, eradicate, and assimilate the Roma from Tudor England to Nazi Germany to the “new wave of fierce prejudice and discrimination” that followed the fall of the Iron Curtain, when many Roma migrated westward.

1 month ago | publishersweekly.com | Deborah Baker |Quinn Slobodian |Robin Givhan |Jeremy Lin

John Seabrook. Norton, $31.99 (368p) ISBN 978-1-324-00352-6New Jersey’s Seabrook family, if less well known today than the Murdochs or the Redstones, had a Succession story every bit as dark, according to this captivating account. New Yorker reporter Seabrook (The Song Machine), a scion of the family who plumbed its history while undergoing therapy and recovering from alcoholism—a disease he attributes to his lineage—traces the dynasty back to its founder, C.F. Seabrook (1881–1964).

1 month ago | bloomberg.com | Kate Schroeder |Michael Boyle |Jeremy Diamond |Jeremy Lin |Brian Coffaro

Bloomberg and the Robin Hood Foundation have enlisted investors in a stock-picking contest for charity. Follow the leaderboard to see who’s ahead.

Dec 19, 2024 | jeuneafrique.com | Jeremy Lin

L’Afrique est à l’avant-garde d’une révolution silencieuse qui transforme les sociétés et redéfinit les économies émergentes : celle du mobile money. Avec 36,7 milliards de transactions totalisant 701,4 milliards de dollars en 2021, le continent domine le paysage mondial de ce secteur, concentrant plus des deux tiers des 1 000 milliards de dollars ayant transité via ces services à l’échelle

Nov 14, 2024 | bloomberg.com | Mark Glassman |Jeremy Lin |Laura Bliss

Money doesn’t win US elections, but it often helps. In bids for the Senate, the candidate who spends the most is typically the victor. That pattern held this year: In 21 of 33 Senate races, the candidate who spent the most on advertising—generally the major expenditure for a campaign—was the winner. The link between spending and winning has always been weaker in presidential contests.