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On our TBR list this weekend: <\/strong>At least one of us is stuck reading about transfer pricing this morning (trust us, you don\u2019t want to know) and plans to cleanse his brain afterward by re-reading Barbarians at the Gate<\/strong><\/a>, a classic from 1989 that created the genre of \u201cinside the deal\u201d business reporting we know today. It combines larger-than-life business personalities, phenomenal writing and a dose of 1980s nostalgia \u2014 what\u2019s not to love? If you, like us, missed it the first time around, it\u2019s a great way to kill a quiet Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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