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Kyle Bass’s Texas Feud Spotlights Short-Selling Tactics (Bloomberg) Ernest Poole had been dead for more than 60 years when someone opened an account in his name at an online platform called Harvest Exchange. Poole, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter, was best known for his sympathetic pieces...

'How much good inside a day? Depends how good you live 'em.' - Shel Silverstein

“There’s always a new challenge to keep you motivated.” - Sean Connery

Secretly, Insiders Are Likely Promoting Their Companies on Seeking Alpha. But It Barely Moves Markets. Stock price reaction to anonymously authored equity research is “muted,” according to researchers at Cornell University. Amy Whyte October 28, 2020 Illustration by II In April 2017, the...

CULTURE The Poker-Playing Adult-Magazine Mogul Behind One of the Biggest Trading Competitions Is Back Norman Zadeh, the founder of both the United States Trading Championship and Perfect 10 magazine, has re-started his famed competition. By Alicia McElhaney October 29, 2020 At first glance...

Boeing cuts As its revenues plunge, Boeing has announced a further 7,000 layoffs on top of the 19,000 job cuts announced earlier this year. It's not clear that these will be the last cuts, either. The company posted a quarterly loss of $754 million yesterday, thanks to pandemic-struck airlines...

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“The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.” - Plutarch

“Our bodies are our gardens, to the which our wills are gardeners.” - William Shakespeare

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"People don’t have ideas, ideas have people." ~ Carl Jung

“With self-discipline most anything is possible.” - Theodore Roosevelt

Looming default Zambia has long-running economic problems, but the exacerbating force of COVID-19 has led it to suspend debt service payments to external commercial creditors, and now the southern African country seems likely to default if it does not make progress toward an IMF-backed reform...

"You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.” – Abraham Lincoln

“Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

The founder helping us take back our privacy:Moxie Marlinspike is the CEO of Signal, the end-to-end encrypted messaging service, which he launched in 2014. Marlinspike believes that encrypted-communication tools aren't just necessary during political tumult. Activists use Signal to coordinate...

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