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Look Inside Hedge Fund Billionaire Steve Cohen’s $33 million Manhattan Mansion (CNBC) Billionaire Steve Cohen‘s 9,600-square-foot Manhattan triplex (yes, you read that right), is for sale and it’s listed for $33.5 million. The home, built in 1905, is located in the Abingdon, a luxe building...

Leon Cooperman Is an Enquirer Investor, But He’s Also a Bezos Fan (Bloomberg) Billionaire hedge fund manager Leon Cooperman has a stake in the publisher of the National Enquirer, but he’s not taking sides in the tabloid’s battle with the “fabulous” Jeff Bezos. The Amazon.com Inc. founder levied...

Turner dives into sports-gambling content in pact with Caesars Turner Sports and its Bleacher Report digital unit are going Vegas, baby. WarnerMedia’s Turner Sports inked a pact with Caesars Entertainment to develop sports gambling content. Under the agreement, Bleacher Report will establish a...

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Twitter finally reveals how many users it has Twitter revealed its number of daily users for the first time on Thursday, disclosing that there are 126 million people on the service. After years of withholding the figure, choosing instead to just share its monthly userbase, Twitter reported what...

Amazon Drivers Do you tip the contracted driver who delivers your Amazon Prime goodies? If so, chances are that the tip goes towards their base pay, the Los Angeles Times reports. Amazon emails say it adds "any supplemental earnings required to meet our commitment that delivery partners earn...

Basic Income The results are out for the first half of Finland's much-watched basic income experiment. It seems the unconditional cash (given to unemployed people in lieu of basic unemployment benefits) didn't result in any meaningful rise in employment. It did, however, make the recipients...

Google Censorship Google has reportedly started censoring its search results in Russia, in order to comply with the country's laws. Russia's media regulator, Roskomnadzor, publishes a blacklist of banned websites that cover illegal topics such as drugs and suicide, and that publicize corruption...

Bezos Blackmail Jeff Bezos published emails that he says show the National Enquirer—whose boss, David Pecker, is a longstanding Trump ally—trying to blackmail him over salacious photos of the Amazon CEO and his girlfriend, Lauren Sanchez. He also published details of the embarrassing items. Fortune

This Is Why Costco Only Charges $5 For A Rotisserie Chicken

Judge gives Eddie Lampert second shot at Sears https://nypost.com/2019/02/07/judge-oks-eddie-lamperts-5-2b-takeover-of-sears/

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It’s a Billionaire Bounce Back as Einhorn, Ackman, and Edelman All Post Good January Returns, After a Brutal 2018 (Business Insider) For several well-known funds, the start of 2019 has helped wash off the stink of last year, as big-name managers like David Einhorn,Bill Ackman,Joseph Edelman and...

AQR: Returns Are Gonna Suck For The Next Decade, Unless We Are Wrong, In Which Case They Are Gonna Really, Really Suck(DealBreaker) Last year, the whiz-kids at AQR Capital Management ran their new streams of big data and everything else through the As-Bot and got an unpleasant surprise: Nothing...

U.S. Federal Pension Insurer Backs Eddie Lampert’s Bid to Buy Sears(The Wall Street Journal) Sears Holdings Corp. Chairman Eddie Lampert won the support of the U.S. government’s pension insurer for his $5 billion buyout proposal, a critical vote in his favor as he vies with other creditors who...

Why the S&P 500 Needs the VIX Needs to Keep Falling if it Wants to Keep Rising By Crystal Kim Updated Feb. 7, 2019 12:51 p.m. ET Photograph by Hulton Archive/Getty Images Text size Streaks are made to be broken, and the Cboe Volatility Index is on a hell of a long one. The VIX fell to 15.04 on...