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I’m Chris Rovzar, Pursuits editor-at-large, stepping in for our usual newsletter scribe Felix Salmon while he’s on vacation. I may not be as good with numbers as Felix, an economic journalist with years of finance writing under his belt — but what I do know, after decades of fitness classes, is how to sweat.