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Lender to Foreign Students Raises $40 Million in Financing

The lender, Prodigy Finance, said Monday that it had also secured a $200 million credit line from an undisclosed bank....

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• 19 hours ago

10 Sunday Reads

My easy like Sunday morning reads: • Starbucks Teaches Silicon Valley a Lesson in Tech (Barron’s) • Donald Trump puts the great ‘Cohn trade’ in doubt (Financial Times) • The Unsolv...

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• 15 hours ago

Robots in MIdwest

Brookings: Where are the robots, exactly? One answer—if you read the steady flow of doomy articles online — is that automation is everywhere, not just all over the media but (you w...

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• 1 day ago

Documentary: Louis Armstrong – Satchmo

Late night palette cleanser: American jazz trumpeter and singer Louis Armstrong.   The post Documentary: Louis Armstrong – Satchmo appeared first on The Big Picture....

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• 1 day ago

10 Weekend Reads

The weekend is here! Pour yourself a mug of Kicking Horse coffee, grab a seat by the pool, and get ready for our longer form weekend reads: • Inside The Partisan Political Fight Fo...

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MiB: Ellen Zentner, chief U.S. economist at Morgan Stanley

Ellen Zentner, the chief U.S. economist at Morgan Stanley. She explains why Texas came through the financial crisis so well, courtesy of its rainy day fund. Her career took her fro...

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• 1 day ago

Protest Playlist

spoti.fi/2i45KLh “We Can’t Make It Here” James McMurtry 2006 My favorite track of the century, although I do prefer the acoustic take rushed out for the election that is now hard t...

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• 2 days ago

Paul Singer Ready To Treat Berkshire Hathaway Like Argentina

This thing’s only been going on for three years. Elliott Management has not even begun to fight....

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• 2 days ago

10 Friday AM Reads

Finish the week strong with our pre-weekend morning train reads: • The perils of calling the peak of the equities bull run (Financial Times) see also Seven Strategies for Investing...

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• 2 days ago

Sharing the Pie: Trump Says More Jobs Will Help Race Relations. If Only It Were So Simple.

Racial attitudes don’t jump around with the economy, and well-being is about more than jobs....

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• 2 days ago

Japan and the burden of government debt

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For Uber, a Quiet Investor Becomes a Sudden Thorn

Benchmark, a venerable Silicon Valley start-up investor, is caught in a bitter public brawl with Uber’s co-founder, Travis Kalanick. It’s an unusual position for the firm....

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• 2 days ago

Morning Agenda: A Quiet Investor in Public Fight at Uber

The venture capital firm Benchmark spent years as a low-profile backer of start-ups. Now, it’s trying to challenge Uber....

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• 2 days ago

EBI: Jim Ross of State Street Global Advisors

      We are thrilled to announce a great addition to this November’s 2nd annual Evidence-Based Investing Conference in New York City. There are few people more plugged into the wo...

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• 2 days ago

Markets Tumble After Midday Rally Fades

Stocks had turned higher following reports that President Trump’s chief strategist, Steve Bannon, left his White House post, but slumped in the final minutes of trading....

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• 2 days ago

President Trump Fires Robert And Rebekah Mercer

We all know what just really happened here....

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Links for 08-18-17

Trump’s CEOs resigned. His staff should do the same. - Larry Summers Alfred Crosby Deserves a Nobel Prize in Economics - Douglas Campbell Fed Confronts New Reality: Low Inflation a...

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• 3 days ago

The Milky Way

Your late night palette cleanser to wipe away all of the days news:   click for ginormous graphic Source: New Scientist   The post The Milky Way appeared first on The Big Picture....

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• 2 days ago

Fair Game: He Didn’t Need the Insurance, or the Ruined Credit Report

Allan Dunlap was among 800,000 Wells Fargo borrowers wrongly charged for auto coverage. The bank admits errors, but he’s had to fight to be made whole....