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“Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.” - Wayne Dyer

“Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.” - Napoleon Hill

Vatican Probe Vatican police are investigating the financing of a London luxury property development project by $200 million in Vatican money. So far, they have seized documents and computers from the Holy See's Secretariat of State and suspended five employees. Financial Times

Libra Troubles Facebook's Libra project has had a very bad last few days. First it was key partners such as Visa and Mastercard pulling out. And now, more evidence of the regulatory pushback that scared them away: a draft G7 report effectively saying the project must not proceed until Facebook...

What's Fair? It Depends on Your Point of View Traders Magazine Online News, October 8, 2019 Phil Mackintosh For those of us who trade every day, it’s easy to dismiss what goes into supporting a listing. We have humans to help with investor relations questions, systems to assist with...

On the menu at Hooters: Chicken, cleavage… and cancer drugs Hooters: The restaurant of choice for spicy chicken wings, cold beer, cleavage-baring waitresses, and... cutting-edge cancer drugs?! The parent company of the Hooters restaurant chain, Chanticleer Holdings -- which lists on the Nasdaq...

"Never argue with idiots - they will lower you to their level and crush you with their experience" - Mark Twain

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I lived with the identity thief who ruined my family — and didn’t realize until it was too late By Stefanie Cohen October 12, 2019 | 12:04pm | Updated Enlarge Image Axton Betz-Hamilton (center) proudly holds an award in 2012 she received for research on identity fraud while flanked by her...

“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path...and leave a trail. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"You can never be too prepared. Put the work in and let the best outcome happen." - Abigail Doolittle (@TheChartress)

Blackstone Talked With Ken Griffin’s Citadel About Buying Stake Flagship hedge-fund operation could be worth up to $7 billion A deal would add to Ken Griffin’s estimated $12.7 billion personal fortune. Photo: Patrick T. Fallon/Bloomberg News By Rachael Levy and Liz Hoffman Oct. 12, 2019 9:00...

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The billion-dollar high-speed internet scam:Elizabeth Pierce co-founded Quintillion Subsea Holdings, a startup in Anchorage trying to build a trans-Arctic data cable that would improve web speeds for much of the planet. The mission captivated the public. Pierce raised $270 million in funding by...

The modern-day explorer:Sarah Marquis is redefining what it means to be a modern-day explorer. She’s a hiking specialist who spends months, sometimes even years, walking across scarcely traveled swaths of earth. From 2010 to 2013, she trekked 10,000 miles from Siberia to the Gobi Desert, then...

The rich kids giving away their inheritances:$32 trillion. That’s how much generational wealth will be transferred over the next 25 years. But an increasing number of wealthy individuals between the ages of 18 and 35 want no part of the family fortune, and they are formally vowing to give away...

The style-quantifying astrophysicists of Silicon Valley: Chris Moody is an astrophysicist who builds galaxy simulations, using supercomputers to model the way the universe expands and how galaxies crash into one another. Now, he and his astrophysicist friends are pivoting to fashion by joining...

The master of cutthroat capitalism: Jeff Bezos is the world’s richest man, and Amazon is America’s second-largest private employer. As regulators hope to reign in the retail behemoth, it is preparing to fight back. This profile gives us a fascinating look at the inner-workings of the company...

" The worst loneliness is when a person is uncomfortable with himself." - Mark Twain

EARNINGS By John Butters | October 11, 2019 While most S&P 500 companies will report earnings results for Q3 2019 over the next few weeks, about 4% of the companies in the index (22 companies) had reported earnings results for the third quarter through yesterday. Given the current expectations...