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This piece first appeared in my newsletter, Future Proof. Please subscribe. “Event movies will save cinema”, we’re constantly told by adults who should be too old to get excited by the sight of men in spandex. This summer has been dominated by two event movies — Barbie, Greta Gerwig’s ode…

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“Do you sincerely want to be rich?” That was the question posed by Bernie Cornfeld, an infamous American huckster, who, in the 1960s, set up a scheme to help American ex-pats and military servicemen invest in a way that avoided income tax. The extremely popular scheme — Investors Overseas Services…