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    Ethan Wu is a financial reporter at the Financial Times. He hosts the twice-weekly Unhedged podcast on markets and finance. He also co-writes the Unhedged daily newsletter. Before joining the FT, Ethan worked at Business Insider and Adweek and studied economics at Cornell University.

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