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10 Good Friday AM Reads
April 2, 2021 6:45am by
Barry Ritholtz
My Good Friday, Great 3 day weekend morning reads:
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How Food Banks Succeeded and What They Need Now America’s charitable food banks take pride in what they’ve accomplished over the past year, and the numbers justify it: They distributed roughly 50 percent more food in 2020 compared with 2019, a considerable portion to first-time visitors. They served millions of people even as they dealt with supply-chain interruptions and health risks for their volunteers and employees. (New York Times)
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The Best Part of Life in the 21st Century? Not Being Dead A surfeit of ways to die: Crop failure meant starvation. Constant wars might have killed us. If disease didn’t get us, there was a pretty good chance famine, war, and conquest would. Diseases took a lot of people. The elements would have taken more. Scenarios our ancestors would have routinely ....

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