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Confederate Monuments Across the USA

Imagine if Germany wanted to maintain statues of Rommel, Goring, Hoess, and Eichmann:   Click for complete article Source: AP   The post Confederate Monuments Across the USA appea...

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Trump Doesn’t Need Dimon, Fink, Or Schwarzman If He’s Got Teen Hedge Fund Manager Jacob Wohl, Says Jacob Wohl

This is a bad idea...he should replace Gary Cohn....

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10 Thursday AM Reads

I’ve decided to dissolve the council behind my morning train reads to avoid putting pressure on links: • Is LIBOR, Benchmark for Trillions of Dollars in Transactions, a Lie? (Rolli...

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• 5 days ago

What does respecting the referendum result mean?

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Everybody Else Is Reading This

Tiffany Trump Starts Her Adventures At Georgetown Law Next Week Above The Law LinkedIn Data-Scraping […]...

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U.S. Begins Nafta Negotiations With Harsh Words

The Trump administration opened talks with Canada and Mexico on the North American Free Trade Agreement by asserting that the current deal had failed....

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• 1 week ago

10 Wednesday AM Reads

My *sigh* mid-week morning train reads: • How Brokerage App Robinhood Got Millennials To Love The Market (Fast Company) • The question isn’t why Merck’s boss quit Trump’s CEO counc...

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• 1 week ago

The Good News on Wage Growth

The Good News on Wage Growth Mary C. Daly, Bart Hobijn, Joseph Pedtke SF FED BLOG August 14, 2017         Figure 1 shows why. It separates wage growth for workers who are in stable...

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VICE: Charlottesville: Race and Terror

Whatever thoughts I had on President Trump previously have been replaced with sheer disgust. On Saturday hundreds of white nationalists, alt-righters, and neo-Nazis traveled to Cha...

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• 6 days ago

Street Scene: The Whale That Should Not Have Gotten Away

The failure to prosecute Wall Street bankers and traders for misconduct has never been fully explained....

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Morning Agenda: Trump Bites Back Against C.E.O.s Who Rebuked Him

When asked why business leaders were leaving his councils, the president said: “Because they’re not taking their job seriously as it pertains to this country.”...

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Bob Mercer Would Even Take A Loan From Jim Simons’ Son To Get More Of That Sweet, Sweet Medallion Action

Nothing is out-of-bounds when it comes to investing in RenTech's super-secret internal hedge fund....

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The Big Sort: Political Migration: A New Business of Moving Out to Fit In

Some people are pulling up stakes in search of more congenial political surroundings. But it’s not clear how prevalent this is, or how practical....

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China’s Online Giants Back $12 Billion Deal to Shake Up State Firm

Tencent and Alibaba are among private companies that will take stakes in China Unicom, as part of an effort to overhaul bloated state-run companies....

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Links for 08-16-17

Why don’t all CEOs quit Trump’s advisory councils? - Larry Summers Nearly All US Trade Deals Were Negotiated by Republicans - PIIE How Donald Trump Is Driving Up Health Insurance P...

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Run for the hills! Its Record High Household Borrowing (again)

The Imaginary Debt Crisis Is Here to Stay Household borrowing has reached new records. Big deal. Personal income has grown much more. Bloomberg, August 16, 2017     Now that we hav...

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Fed Officials Confront New Reality: Low Inflation and Low Unemployment

A growing number of officials see a need to adjust the central bank’s assumptions on the economy, according to an account of the latest policy meeting....

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• 1 week ago

What does respecting the referendum result mean?

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Akzo Nobel Ends Feud With Elliott Management

The Dutch paint and chemicals company had been sparring with the hedge fund about a takeover offer and about replacing top executives....

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Opening Bell: 8.16.17

Frankfurt doesn't want your tired, your hungry, your Brexit bankers; Rajat Gupta just wants to be normal, unassuming captain of industry again; Cheetos-only restaurant signals...

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Well This Is Certainly An Awkward Time For #Resistance Leader Lloyd Blankfein To Deal With A Racial Discrimination Suit

“Segregation is alive and well on Wall Street.”...

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Breakingviews: $16 Billion Bond Sale Shows Amazon’s Power to Pursue Deals

In nearly tripling its debt to buy Whole Foods, the e-commerce behemoth is starting to look like a traditional retailer....

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MiB: Matt Wallaert wants to be your Chief Behavioral Officer

Matt Wallaert is on a mission to create a ‘Chief Behavioral Officer’ officer as a standard C-Suite position within corporate America. Wallaert is a behavioral psychologist and entr...

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For Rajat Gupta, Returning Is a Hard Road

After going to prison for a Wall Street scandal, the once-revered executive finds former friends divided about accepting him back into their lives....

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Warren Buffett Hates Hedge Fund Activism More Than He Loves GE

He won’t have anything to do with a company that listens to the likes of Nelson Peltz....