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Morning Agenda: Masayoshi Son Warns of the Singularity

The SoftBank founder laid out his predictions for how artificial intelligence will change the world — and how his giant Vision Fund fits into that....

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Everything must go

Everything must go A rash of store closings is a sign that the ground has shifted under bricks-and-mortar merchants, with consequences for the retail sector and district communitie...

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Electricity Production is Radically Changing

The age of batteries is just getting started. In the latest episode of our animated series, Sooner Than You Think, Bloomberg’s Tom Randall does the math on when solar plus batterie...

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Public Health: Obamacare Repeal Bill Offers Both Enormous Flexibility and Uncertainty

States would be given money to establish their own health policies, and it’s hard to know who would remain covered and how....

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10 Wednesday AM Reads

My midweek morning train reads: • U.S. Stocks Are Front-Running Third-Quarter Earnings Beats (Bloomberg) • Myths, Markets and Easy Money (Bilello) • Capitalism and democracy — the ...

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How to Minimize Investment Returns

How to Minimize Investment Returns by Warren Buffett Berkshire’s Annual Report (p18) February 28, 2006       It’s been an easy matter for Berkshire and other owners of American equ...

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Opening Bell: 9.20.17

Guggenheim is in hot water; bitcoin's split could split again; quit your hedge fund and run for governor; a "Mad Pooper" is terrorizing Colorado; and more....

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New Videos! Starting with One on Gains From Trade…

Sooo…I have a minor confession to make- I’ve established a bit of a cottage industry tutoring students in the course I taught while I was in grad school. Not gonna lie, it’s pretty...

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President Trump Probably Not Going To Screw Anthony Scaramucci Over Again

The puppy-like Mooch’s loyalty to MAGA may finally pay off....

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Links for 09-19-17

Is Larry Summers a Fan of Nominal GDP Level Targeting? - David Beckworth The Global Cost of the Eurozone’s 2012 Fiscal Coordination Failure - Brad Setser Undergraduate economics te...

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Seinfeld Goes Back

Hold my calls: This opens tonight on Netflix, Jerry before Seinfeld: Returning to his roots, taking the stage of the Comic Strip, the club where he first started doing Stand Up. In...

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Public Health: One Reason to Take the Latest Obamacare Repeal Seriously, and Three Reasons It Could Fail

The political and procedural hurdles are many, but the hunger for victory among Republicans may overcome all....

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Undergraduate economics teaching moves into 21st century

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Toys ‘R’ Us Files for Bankruptcy, Crippled by Competition and Debt

The toy store chain will get $3 billion in financing to continue paying employees and suppliers as it deals with Chapter 11....

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11 Pictures of Saturn Will Stun You

Click to see all the pictures. Source: Bloomberg The post 11 Pictures of Saturn Will Stun You appeared first on The Big Picture....

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Bias in Cable News: Persuasion and Polarization

The post Bias in Cable News: Persuasion and Polarization appeared first on The Big Picture....

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Everybody Else Is Reading This

St. Louis Police Now Just Arresting And Taunting Protestors Above The Law Fight Over Electoral […]...

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Harvard Endowment Reports ‘Disappointing’ 8.1 Percent Return

The endowment’s new chief, N.P. Narvekar, said the university’s $37.1 billion fund had problems that would “require time to overcome.”...

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Morning Agenda: Retailers (Not Named Amazon) Continue to Struggle

The bankruptcy filing by Toys “R” Us shows just how much pain store operators are feeling — and highlighted that more suffering is in store....

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Cost of Hurricane Harvey: Only One Storm Comes Close

Source: New York Times The post Cost of Hurricane Harvey: Only One Storm Comes Close appeared first on The Big Picture....

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Ray Dalio Calls Bitcoin A “Bubble” And Still Manages To Go Easy On It

This is a matter of principle....

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DealBook: Fixing the ‘Brain Damage’ Caused by the I.P.O. Process

Entrepreneurs are exploring new ways to list companies on exchanges — and placate stock-holding Silicon Valley employees — while avoiding the pitfalls of initial public offerings....

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10 Tuesday AM Reads

My two for Tuesday morning train reads: • Investing Hot Shots Can’t Time the Market, Either (Bloomberg Gadfly) see also How Millennials Can Prepare For the Next Financial Crisis (A...

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Opening Bell: 9.19.17

Maybe we've got this whole QE unwind thing backwards; Bill Gross is merely average; the sharing economy comes to sex dolls; and more....

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Carl Icahn Inadvertently Saves Chipotle’s Trading Day By Getting A Little Carried Away Pranking Bill Ackman

In which we learn that there's a fine line between filling an office with queso and accidentally rigging a market....