Why we'll see deals explode in 2024 | How the Palestinian Authority Failed Its People | Ursula K. Le Guin on Art, Storytelling, and the Power of Language to Transform and Redeem | Opinion | How to be Human

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� � � � � � You Might Like � � � � � � � � � Why we'll see deals explode in 2024 - Fortune    IPOs and mergers could rebound next year when roughly 1,200 companies are expected to run out of money, according to executives at the AlphaMarket Growth Summit. The public offerings of Arm Holdings, Instacart and Klaviyo were expected to deliver a big boost to the slumbering IPO market in September. The trio did deliver solid first days, but those gains didn’t last. The stocks of each company have dropped in the aftermarket. Instacart is down nearly 19% from its $30 IPO price, while Arm traded below its $51 offer price and Klaviyo ended Thursday at its $30 price. Then there was the dismal debut of Birkenstock, the German sandal company, which went public last week. Birkenstock has yet to trade above its $46 IPO price, ending Thursday at $37.26. Birkenstock “was the nail in the coffin for growth IPOs for the balance of the year,” one executive at the conference said. About 170 execs, including venture capital, limited partners, and startups, descended on the Yale Club for the AlphaMarket Summit Wednesday. Continued here How the Palestinian Authority Failed Its People - The Atlantic    As the war in Gaza continues to intensify, the Palestinian Authority has been conspicuously quiet. Since its establishment in 1993, and particularly since the Second Intifada, in the early 2000s, the PA has been losing credibility not only diplomatically but also among the Palestinian people. Hamas rushed to fill the subsequent vacuum in ideas, politics, and security. Today the Palestinian people are paying the price. Any political arrangement made after this war in Gaza needs to focus not just on the future of the coastal strip but also on rehabilitating the PA. Since the signing of the Oslo Accords in 1993, the Palestinian people have been presented with two competing, irreconcilable visions of their future. One, posited by the Palestine Liberation Organization—a secular, though by no means democratic, group and the parent of the Palestinian Authority—envisioned a diplomatic process leading to a Palestinian state side by side with Israel. The other, promoted by Hamas, a designated terrorist group and a member of the larger Muslim Brotherhood network, called for the establishment of a Palestinian state from the River Jordan to the Mediterranean—in other words, the destruction of Israel—to be achieved through violence. Diplomacy, terror, governance, charities, political organizing, messaging: The opponents used all tools at their disposal to advance their objectives both on the ground and in the hearts and minds of Palestinians. In the days immediately following the signing of the Oslo Accords, the PA held a clear advantage. Oslo itself gave the Palestinian people hope for achieving freedom after 25 years of occupation. The establishment of the PA saw Palestinians governing themselves on parts of their land for the first time in living memory, and PLO leaders, who had symbolized the Palestinian cause for generations, returned to live among their people, generating a sense of pride. Continued here Don't like ads? Go ad-free with TradeBriefs Premium Ursula K. Le Guin on Art, Storytelling, and the Power of Language to Transform and Redeem - The Marginalian    “People wish to be settled; only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them,” Emerson wrote in contemplating the key to personal growth. Hardly anything does this for us more powerfully than art — it unsettles us awake, disrupts our deadening routines, enlarges our reservoir of hope by enlarging our perspective, our grasp of truth, our capacity for beauty. This singular function of art is what Ursula K. Le Guin (October 21, 1929–January 22, 2018) reflects on in an interview by the polymathic marine conservationist Jonathan White, included in his wonderful Talking on the Water: Conversations about Nature and Creativity (public library). In a roaming conversation over tea, “with only momentary interruptions by Lorenzo the cat or chimes from the grandfather clock,” Le Guin tells White: Continued here Opinion | How to be Human - The New York Times -     If you ever saw the old movie “Fiddler on the Roof,” you know how warm and emotional Jewish families can be. They are always hugging, singing, dancing, laughing and crying together. The culture of my upbringing could be summed up by the phrase “Think Yiddish, act British.” We were reserved, stiff-upper-lip types. I’m not saying I had a bad childhood; far from it. Home was a stimulating place for me growing up. At Thanksgiving, we talked about the history of Victorian funerary monuments and the evolutionary sources of lactose intolerance (I’m not kidding). There was love in our home. We just didn’t express it. Whether it was nature or nurture, I grew into a person who was a bit detached. When I was 4, my nursery schoolteacher apparently told my parents, “David doesn’t always play with the other children. A lot of the time he stands off to the side and observes them,” which was good for a career in journalism but not for emotional availability or a joyous life. Continued here

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