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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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• 21 hours 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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• 14 hours 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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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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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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President Trump Fires Robert And Rebekah Mercer

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

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• 19 hours 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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• 10 hours 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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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....

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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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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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• 16 hours ago

Bird Retirement

25 Years ago today, Larry Bird retired from basketball. Bird was a 12-time NBA All-Star and was named the league’s Most Valuable Player (MVP) three consecutive times (1984–1986). H...

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• 9 hours ago

Carl Icahn Quits as a Special Adviser to President Trump

The billionaire investor’s views on environmental regulations had raised criticism from Democratic lawmakers....

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Winners from globalisation (Ben Broadbent)

Two hundred and fifty years ago, a few miles south of here, Adam Smith began working on the Wealth of Nations. It was published a decade later, in 1776. So there were (at least) tw...

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Stocks Drop as Attacks in Spain Push Investors to Safe Havens

Share indexes in Europe and Asia were lower after the assaults in Barcelona and the seaside town of Cambrils, which were the country’s worst in a decade....

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As Executives Retreated, Lone Voices Offered Support for Trump

As the president’s advisory councils were disbanding, a few corporate chieftains made a case in terms of business self-interest, patriotism and pragmatism....

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Paul Krugman: Trump Makes Caligula Look Pretty Good

"The Worst President Ever™": Trump Makes Caligula Look Pretty Good, by Paul Krugman, NY Times: Even before the media obsession with Hillary Clinton’s email server put The...

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• 18 hours ago

How to Become Great at Just About Anything (Rebroadcast)

Season 6, Episode 50 This week on Freakonomics Radio: what if the thing we call ‘talent’ is grotesquely overrated? And what if deliberate practice is the secret to excellence? Thos...