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This Law Firm Wants to Put the Private Credit Debate to Rest Data on individual deals shows that the market is healthier than many think, according to Proskauer. Julie Segal February 14, 2020 David Paul Morris/Bloomberg It’s easy to speculate about the health of the private credit market...

BOARD BATTLES Chess pawn stars could be the next kings and queens of esports The grandmasters are going online. And they’re making old-school chess look like checkers. NBC Newsreportsthat a new breed of chess champions is using Twitch, the livestreaming platform, to reach big audiences -- and...

Top Hedge Fund Manager Has Washed His Hands Of Nearly 3 Million WWE Shares (Forbes) As WWE’s stock begins to stabilize amid a steady decline that burned several investors, who once upon a time saw its share price skyrocket to $100, top investor Stephen Mandel of Lone Pine Capital has divested...

HSBC cuts HSBC's annual profits fell by a third last year, and it has revealed plans to cut around 15% of its global workforce—that's 35,000 jobs to be cut; way more than the 10,000 analysts were expecting. The bank also warned about the coronavirus' impact on its profits this year. Its share...

Amazon competition The BBC has an epic piece on Amazon's data-fueled rise, and the competition investigations and privacy concerns that its approach has now sparked. As EU digital policy and competition chief Margrethe Vestager puts it: "We would never accept in a football match that one team...

“It’s a different sort of place. ... We have 25 people in the office,”he says of the small Berkshire Hathaway headquarters in Omaha, Nebraska. “And if you go back, it’s the exact same 25. The exact same ones.” https://www.cnbc.com/2017/05/22/surprising-things-in-warren-buffetts-office.html As...

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Topless protester confronts Bernie Sanders, de Blasio at Nevada campaign rally By Mark Moore February 16, 2020 | 5:29pm | Updated Topless protester confronts Bernie Sanders, de Blasio at Nevada campaign rally Video Player is loading. 0:44 / 0:44 More On: bernie sanders As Bloomberg's VP...

Warren Buffett Made Some Surprising Buys And Sells For Berkshire Hathaway In Q4 Warren Buffett bought shares of Kroger(KR) andBiogen(BIIB) in the fourth quarter, but the investing legend further pared his Apple(AAPL) and Wells Fargo(WFC) stakes,Berkshire Hathaway's (BRKB) latest quarterly 13F...

Thus began the era of the Capitalist-in-Chief By cashing in on events, speeches, and corporate board seats post-presidency, Ford managed to increase his net worth by more than 400%. But some other presidents have done even better. Here are the modern presidents (Nixon and beyond) whose net...

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Boaz Weinstein get's a lot press but he did not make the list...

Limited Liability Is Causing Unlimited Harm The original purpose of limited-liability protection was to encourage investment in—and risk-taking by—corporations, whose resulting innovations would benefit society. Yet by allowing shareholders to profit from the harms caused by corporations...

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Take the same item to 4 different pawn shops and you might get offers that vary by hundreds of dollars. Here’s why. This edition of The Hustle was brought to you byDiversyfund... Building wealth like the 1%. The Hustle Issue #93 Sunday, February 15, 2020 The economics of pawn shops Take the...

The pro athlete taking a break from it all:Andre Iguodala hasn't played a second of basketball since June, but now he's back on a contender. Iguodala had come to regard this time away as a sabbatical from the league, a chance to recharge physically and mentally after five years of being on the...

The reality TV producer advising the Saudi investment fund:Carla DiBello was a reality TV show producer who has somehow become a high-profile rainmaker to Saudi Arabia’s $300 billion investment fund. She’s helping the Saudi Public Investment Fund negotiate a $445 million deal to buy a majority...

Silicon Valley’s favorite doomsayer:Yuval Noah Harari, the author ofSapiens,now defines himself as both a historian and a philosopher. He has the ear of decision-makers; he travels the world to show them PowerPoint slides depicting mountains of trash and unemployed hordes. But, like a fiery...

The king of ultrarunning:Jim Walmsley is America’s best male ultrarunner. He once ran from rim to rim to rim of the Grand Canyon — 42 miles with 12,000 feet of climbing — in under six hours. Another time he broke the course record at the Western States 100-Mile Endurance Run in back-to-back...

The mountaineers finding calm in suffering:What a story. Driven by heavy loss, two of the world’s best mountaineers, Hilaree Nelson and Jim Morrison, set out to not only make history but also try out a relationship. And love brings with it vulnerability — which is great if you’re going on...