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The millionaires’ magician: Steve Cohen, who is also known as the Millionaires' Magician, has made a killing doing parlor magic for the 1 percent. Warren Buffett has flown him out to his home. He’s performed for the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia and the Queen of Morocco. The rich, Cohen figures...

“‘Have fun’ is my motto. Be silly. You’re allowed to be silly.” - Jimmy Fallon

“If you haven’t read hundreds of books, you are functionally illiterate, and you will be incompetent, because your personal experiences alone aren’t broad enough to sustain you,” — Jim Mattis

“Laughter is an instant vacation.” - Milton Berle

Amazon Ring Amazon's Ring smart-doorbell subsidiary has now partnered with over 400 police forces in the U.S. to allow cops to ask owners for footage from the devices. Privacy advocates are heavily against the program, as the doorbell-cameras capture images of many people who are innocent of...

Cable Fears A largely completed, Google- and Facebook-backed undersea cable between L.A. and Hong Kong is reportedly under threat from U.S. officials, who want to block the venture on national security grounds. Officials are apparently suspicious of the Chinese partner that's involved in the...

Italian Resolution Meanwhile, Italy's latest bout of turmoil is over for now, after the populist 5Star Movement and center-left Democratic Party agreed to form a coalition goverment. The 5Stars' erstwhile coalition partner, the far-right League, recently pulled the plug on that arrangement in...

Levandowski Charges Anthony Levandowski, a former Uber engineer, has been charged with stealing driverless car technology from Alphabet's Waymo unit. The companies settled a civil case over the matter last year, but the criminal case could see Levandowski put behind bars for up to a decade...

Anthony Levandowski was indicted after all, and now his startup may be in trouble Earlier this week, the bumbling bad boy of the self-driving car industry, Anthony Levandowski, was charged with 33 counts of theft and attempted theft of trade secrets from his former employer, Google. Back up a...

Tesla’s discounted insurance program drives into a few early potholes Tesla just announced thelaunchof Tesla Insurance: Tesla owners in California now can sign up for rates between 20% and 30% lower than those offered by traditional carriers. But when Tesla owners tried to access the new site...

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I believe he was at a bridge tournament when Bear Stearns went belly up...

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Good Writers Make Better Hedge Fund Managers Look for hedge fund managers with expansive vocabularies — but watch out for convoluted sentence structures, a new study shows. Amy Whyte August 28, 2019 Illustration by II How well hedge fund managers describe their strategies in writing may...

The Pure Gold Company has seen a 632 per cent increase in people purchasing physical gold bars and coins over the last week, compared to the weekly average for 2019. The firm says buyers are racing to secure the precious metal because they fear the combined effects of a possible no deal Brexit...

Investors are buying stock in old comics and Pokemon cards Most of us probably know a 11-year-old who blew their whole allowance on a pack of Pokemon cards back in the day… but blowing stacks of cash on Pokemon cards isn’t just for pre-teens anymore. In recent years, fractional investment --...

”Challenges are inevitable, but giving up is not. Just keep going.” - Abigail Doolittle (@TheChartress)

“The truth is more important than the facts.” - Frank Lloyd Wright

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