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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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• 5 days ago

The case against shrinking the Fed’s balance-sheet

AS EXPECTED, the Federal Reserve announced on September 20th that it will soon begin reversing the asset purchases it made during and after the financial crisis. From October, Amer...

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SAC Insider-Trader Totally Forgot He Hadn’t Insider Traded When He Pleaded Guilty To It

So can he take that back now?...

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Quants Hungry For Data Fix, Looking For Dealers Everywhere

If you’ve got the good stuff, they’ve got the green....

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• 5 days ago

White Collar Watch: Hack Will Lead to Little, if Any, Punishment for Equifax

The chances that Equifax or its executives see significant criminal or civil penalties are low, because of the nature of the attack and a quirk of regulation....

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• 5 days ago

A Start-Up Slump Is a Drag on the Economy. Big Business May Be to Blame.

The formation of new companies has failed to bounce back since the recession, and economists say the trend may be holding back wages and productivity....

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• 5 days ago

Janet Yellen Is Just Going To Pour Herself A Glass Of Red, Sit Back And Unwind (A Few Trillion Dollars Of Fed Assets)

We could all use a drink or three....

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• 5 days ago

Janet Yellen Officially Done Stimulating Your Economy

She's done with this tickling routine, jerks....

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• 5 days ago

Monte Carlo Simulations & the "SimDesign" Package in R

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Where The Working Class Can (Not) Afford to Live

We were just having a conversation about how expensive places in the USA were like New York City, Washington D.C., and San Francisco versus Great European cities like Paris, Rome a...

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• 5 days ago

Toshiba Reaches Tentative Deal to Sell Microchip Unit

The board of the Japanese conglomerate is close to an agreement with a group of investors led by Bain Capital, although details must still be finalized....

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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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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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• 5 days ago

Coming soon: National Network of Charging Stations for Cars

Despite tremendous advances over the last decade, electric cars have yet to go mainstream. Even once Tesla ramps up production of its Model 3 cars, one obstacle will remain: a lack...

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• 5 days ago

Sheryl Sandberg Leans In To Take Public Beating On Mark Zuckerberg’s Behalf

Facebook's fuck-up is on Sheryl because The Zuck is woke now....

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• 5 days ago

Everybody Else Is Reading This

See Also: Have You Seriously Not Read The Ty Cobb Story Yet? Above The Law […]...

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• 5 days ago

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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• 5 days ago

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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• 5 days ago

FOMC statement

No change in the target range for the federal funds rate, balance sheet unwinding to begin in October: Federal Reserve issues FOMC statement: Information received since the Federal...

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• 5 days ago

Mike Bloomberg Is Starting To Wonder If Anyone Is Reading Their Bloomberg Terminal

Like, REALLY reading it....

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• 5 days ago

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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• 5 days ago

Links for 09-20-17

The great unwind begins - Jim Hamilton Colleges as class reproduction machines - Brookings How Food Spending Varies with Income - Jayson Lusk The harm of high housing costs - Stumb...

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• 5 days ago

Harvard Endowment Still Sucks

But having cut out both the dead and living wood, it hopes to suck less going forward....

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Tata Steel and ThyssenKrupp Agree to Create European Steel Giant

The two companies hope a joint venture would be better equipped to tackle chronic problems in the sector. But the deal faces major obstacles....

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Undergraduate economics teaching moves into 21st century