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"Dwell on the past, and you will lose an eye. Ignore the past, and you will lose both eyes." - Old Russian proverb

"Fallen blossoms do not return to branches, a broken mirror does not again reflect." - Japanese proverb

Buried in Reddit, the Seeds of Melvin Capital’s Crisis Retail investors plotted online to take down Gabriel Plotkin’s hedge fund. Now Citadel and Point72 have thrown it a lifeline. Michelle Celarier January 25, 2021 Daniel Acker/Bloomberg For months, retail investors posting on a Reddit...

Queue-jumper Rod Baker, the erstwhile CEO of Great Canadian Gaming Corp, has resigned and faces charges after being busted for jumping the COVID vaccine queue. He and his wife travelled to a small community called Beaver Creek, so they could get the Moderna vaccine under the pretense that they...

“It’s always about the music, never about anything else.” - Eddie Van Halen

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“It’s silly to try to escape other people’s faults. They are inescapable. Just try to escape your own.” ~ Marcus Aurelius

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1.4 billion population with 300 million or so with any kind of buying power....

Big bet that business travel will be back.TripAction -- a corporate travel software platform -- raised $155m at a $5B valuation.

AstraZeneca glitch The EU is fuming at an AstraZeneca production glitch that will lead to lower supplies of its vaccine in the first half of the year. The failure comes after Pfizer and BioNTech also had to temporarily cut their vaccine shipments, due to the need to retool a Belgian plant so it...

Chinese investments China got more foreign direct investment last year than the U.S. did, according to figures from the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development. In fact, FDI flows to China rose by 4% to $163 billion, in a year when overall FDI flows plummeted by 42% to $859 billion...

Israel isolates Israel has closed its only international airport for at least a week, so as to get more of its population vaccinated before faster-moving, possibly more lethal new variants of the coronavirus take hold in the country. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: "No nation has done what...

“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” - MLK

“Quality is not an act, it is a habit.” - Aristotle

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"You know in your heart of hearts you have never taken this level of risk, and you never thought you would." - Jeremy Grantham, GMO, January 22, 2021