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Digital clothes are fashion’s freaky new frontier A company called Carlings offers a pair of high-fashion jeans for $22.04. Seems like a good deal, right? But there’s a catch: The jeans are digital. (To be clear, that means they literallydon’t existin real life.) So, what’s going on here...

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LVMH and Tiffany Tiffany is being taken over by the European luxury conglomerate LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton. The $16.2 billion deal is in part a bet on rising luxury consumption in China, where Tiffany is building multiple flagship stores. It's also LVMH's biggest buy yet—CEO Bernard...

“The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.” - Ben Stein

In-N-Out sued by Cal Fire for allegedly starting 2017 wildfire https://www.sfgate.com/california-wildfires/article/In-N-Out-sued-by-Cal-Fire-for-Huasna-Fire-14859122.php

The entrepreneur who built an empire of odor:Suzy Batiz has done many things in pursuit of a successful venture including: opening a tanning salon, starting a clothing line; and selling cheap lingerie at a markup to strippers. And then came the product that made her one of America’s richest...

“The presence of passion within you is the greatest gift you can receive. Treat it as a miracle.” - - Wayne Dyer

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Final Judgment Handed Down Against Former Portfolio Manager (HedgeCo.net) (HedgeCo.Net) A federal district court in New York, New York has entered a final judgment against Richard Lee, a former portfolio manager at S.A.C. Capital Advisors L.P., a former hedge fund management firm that was...

Lone Pine Capital’s Latest Investor Letter Argues that Tech Disruption has Destroyed the Value Stock Thesis, and Warns that the ‘Past is Not Prologue’ (Business Insider) Lone Pine Capital‘s two funds – Lone Cypress and Lone Cascade – each lost more than 2% in the third quarter thanks to the...

“Life is no brief candle to me. I want to make it burn as brightly as possible.” - George Bernard Shaw

"" Bridgewater Makes $1.5 Billion Options Bet on Falling Market World’s largest hedge fund takes on a big bearish trade; founder Dalio says firm’s overall position on market isn’t negative Bridgewater Associates, a hedge fund founded by Ray Dalio, is betting on a stock-market downturn...

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“I want to make it clear that we don’t have any such net bet that the stock market will fall.” - Ray Dalio

He is not well suited for Premier League style physical football and he is not a leader...

Long-Short Equity Hedge Funds Keep Losing Investors But some managed futures managers are making a comeback. Amy Whyte November 21, 2019 Qilai Shen/Bloomberg Managers of long-short equity hedge funds are having an undeniably bad year for fundraising. Investors redeemed about $41 billion...

The bribery business is alive and well on Amazon. Customers are gaming Amazon for thousands of dollars worth of free stuff. How? People trade positive reviews for reimbursement (a workaround for Amazon’s ban on swapping free products for reviews). One woman profiled by BuzzFeed“purchased” $15k...

Loon is flying the internet to rural areas... via balloon This week Alphabet subsidiary Loon inked a deal with Internet para Todos (IpT) to bring solar-powered, balloon-based connectivity to remote parts of the Amazon rainforest. The deal will make the internet available to about 200k people...