Hi members!
I hope you had a fun and restful weekend.
We closed out last week with a terrific members’ conference call discussing our field guide on hidden money and how the US has become one of world’s best tax havens. Many of you attended and many also asked thought-provoking questions, all contributing to a great conversation.
This week, we have another field guide that’s sure to spark even more dialogue—the rise of direct-to-consumer genetic-testing kits. This recent phenomenon is only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to a burgeoning healthcare technology. Our knowledge of the human genome is growing fast, but also continually reveals how much more we haven’t learned. Consumer kits promise enhanced knowledge of our health and our heritage, but what is a growing business is also one based on less-than-stringent claims of efficacy and accuracy. Quartz reporter Katherine Foley gets to the bottom of things throughout the week.
Today also marks the second episode of our new members-only video series Because China. Our latest video looks at Chinese students in America. Chinese students are the largest group of international students from any one country ever, and we go to America’s heartland, the state of Illinois, to see what the implications are when so many students and so much money come from one country.
We’ll have much more this week, so stay tuned for more articles on the members home at qz.com. I hope you have a great week.
All best,
Sam Grobart
membership editor