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The race with no finish line:Here’s how Big Dog’s Backyard Ultra works: runners have one hour to complete a 4.167-mile loop at the race organizer's home. Sounds easy enough. But then they have to do it over and over and over again. Hundreds of miles and a ridiculous amount of pain later, the...

Crypto’s crown prince:Olaf Carlson-Wee wrote his 2012 college thesis on Bitcoin and joined Coinbase as its first employee. He appeared on the cover ofForbesin 2017, which read: “The craziest bubble ever.” He was riding high as his hedge fund Polychain Capital reached $1 billion in assets under...

The kitesurfing founder who built a $3-billion business:Melanie Perkins built design platform Canva from a simple online tool into a $3 billion behemoth. This year, the company expects to more than double its revenue to $200 million. It’s one of these rare Silicon Valley stories that you don’t...

in the below thread LBR says Educators, bloggers/ vloggers would not be doing what they do if they could make $ trading. Following aGuru is a losing game. Listen after minute 40:00...

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Macau. Next Friday marks the 20th anniversary of Macau's Dec. 20, 1999 handover from Portugal to China. Chinese President Xi Jinping will visit the city next week to celebrate the anniversary and announce a raft of economic policies to diversify Macau's casino-dependent economy—and, some say, to...

Star Premier League Player Mesut Özil Criticizes China Over Uighur Repression German-Turkish midfielder lashed out on social media at Muslim countries for failing to support ethnic group Arsenal’s Mesut Özil is a devout Muslim of Turkish heritage. Photo: Steven Paston/Zuma Press By Joshua...

How You Can Get Big Gains That Wall Street Can’t A dirty secret of the investment business is that fund managers don’t buy and hold. Not because they don’t want to, but because they can’t. Illustration: Alex Nabaum By Jason Zweig Dec. 13, 2019 11:00 am ET The best-performing stock of the...

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How a Challenge Between a Quant Manager and a Texas Pension Shook Out A quant manager thought it could reduce trade execution costs for Teacher Retirement System of Texas. Alicia McElhaney December 12, 2019 How a Challenge Between a Quant Manager and a Texas Pension Shook Out The Teacher...

University of Phoenix put out another fire. But can it rise from its ashesagain? The University of Phoenix recentlyagreedto a $191m settlement with the Federal Trade Commission after it was accused of advertising so fraudulent that even the university’s own executives described it as “smoke and...

Hedge Fund’s Control Over Wendy’s Goes Deep as Fast Food Chain Snubs Farmworkers (Eyes on the Ties) The Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) has waged a long campaign calling on Wendy’s to join the Fair Food Program. That campaign is now gaining more momentum – receiving more press coverage, for...

Huawei Loss The Norwegian telco Telenor has decided to go with Ericsson as the supplier for its 5G network rollout, instead of its 4G network partner, Huawei. Based on a "comprehensive and holistic" security and technical-quality evaluation, said Telenor CEO Sigve Brekke, "we have decided to...

Console Wars Microsoft has unveiled the Xbox Series X, its next-generation gaming console, which will go on sale during next year's holiday season. It's a blocky, monolithic design with impressive technical specs, but we still don't know how Sony will counter the move with a PlayStation 5—nor...

Oracle CEO Oracle will not take on a second CEO to replace the late Mark Hurd, leaving Safra Catz as the software giant's sole chief executive. Executive chairman Larry Ellison said the next generation of leadership within the company would provide "the next CEO when Safra and I retire, which...

Airbus Stamina The world's longest commercial flight will use an Airbus, not a Boeing. Australian carrier Qantas said it would work closely with the European plane making consortium on a deal for up to 12 A350-1000 aircraft for the Sydney-London route and others. However, it hasn't actually...

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