Here’s how Charlie Munger would teach a business school course

Legendary investor and polymath Charlie Munger, Berkshire Hathaway’s vice-chairman and Warren Buffett’s long-time business partner, has said several times the best way to learn about business is to study the multi-decade financial results of great businesses. Business schools that don’t adopt this method are doing their students a disservice, he said. “The Harvard Business School, when it started out way early, they started out with a history of business. They take you through the building… Source link

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Inflation Perfect Storm: The Fed’s Dual Conundrum

(1:30) – Centrifugal Force: Markets Coil Then Jump (9:20) – Big Move In Bonds: Financial Plumbing Pressures (15:10) – Richly-Valued Growth Stocks Overdue to Correct (20:40) – GameStop Stock Surges Again: How a Pro Traded It (24:15) – Stimulus + Growth + Inflation = Commodity Prices Rising (29:00) – Technical Targets for the Nasdaq 100 (37:00) – Good Lessons For New Investors are Everywhere Podcast@Zacks.com  Mind Over Money Archive   Whether or not the stock market just peaked for the near-term of… Source link

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USA Gymnastics turned Olympic dreams into nightmares

The most enduring image from the USA women’s gymnastics 2012 Olympic team wasn’t of gold-medal-celebrating athletes or a stuck landing at the end of a championship routine. It was one of self-doubt and disappointment. It came courtesy of McKayla Maroney, undeniably the world’s best vaulter at the time, who nonetheless was denied a gold medal after she shockingly fell on her second attempt. Had she landed square, she would have won easily. She didn’t and had to settle for silver. On the… Source link

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Labor Department expands jobless aid for those forced to choose ‘your money or your health’

Workers whose states denied them unemployment aid during the COVID-19 pandemic may be able to retroactively access benefits back to Feb. 2, 2020, according to a new Labor Department rule issued Thursday. The Department of Labor (DOL) broadened access to the federal pandemic unemployment assistance (PUA) established under the CARES Act, and comes in response to a Jan. 22 executive order seeking clarification on who qualifies for it. The DOL rule expands eligibility to certain workers who… Source link

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Google Stadia: two new reports reveal internal struggles

Two new reports from Bloomberg and Wired have shed light on some of Google’s failures in building its Stadia cloud gaming service. The reports come just a few weeks after Google announced it would be shutting down its in-house Stadia game development studios. One key issue, according to Wired, is that Google may not have put as much investment in its internal studios as its much-hyped plans for Stadia may have suggested. Stadia chief Phil Harrison announced Google’s Stadia Games and… Source link

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U.S. SEC suspends trading in 15 securities due to 'questionable' social media activity – Yahoo Finance

TipRanks 2 ‘Strong Buy’ Stocks With 7% Dividend Yield You can get whiplash, trying to follow the market fluctuations these days. Volatility rules for now, as investors are pulling out of Big Tech – a move that is pushing the general markets down. The bearish sentiment comes as new COVID case numbers are falling, along with the weekly unemployment claims. Both are positive news bites for the economy, and will help to justify increased economic opening. At the same time, a Congressional… Source link

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How to use Google Currents

Currents is the enterprise social network you might not have known your Google Workspace organization needed, or even had. Google discussed Currents during a session at Google Next in 2019. Image: Andy Wolber/TechRepublic What’s Hot at… Source link

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Bitcoin ‘not quite ready’ to be a standard payment option for sellers

Bitcoin has tumbled about 15% in the past week. Despite its price appreciation this year (up more than 60%) and the enthusiasm around trading bitcoin, its acceptance as payment for transactions is still relatively low. That’s not likely to change in 2021— at least not on online marketplace Etsy. “I don’t think it’s quite ready yet to be tender,” said Etsy CEO Josh Silverman in an interview with Yahoo Finance Live. “You need a lot of people holding it before it is actually useful as a form… Source link

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The NBA Yahoo Cup Post Up Presented by BetMGM

Eric Lindquist brings you his NBA DFS picks for Round 11 of the Yahoo Cup Post Up. Yahoo Daily Fantasy Basketball 2/26/21 | Isaiah Roby The race for the BetMGM NBA Yahoo Cup is fast approaching the midway point. The multi-round, single-entry contest that runs nearly every Friday throughout the NBA DFS season tips off Round 11 of 23 tonight. Scoring is cumulative for the year-long points race, with your five lowest scores dropped. At the end of the season, a $50,000 prize pool is shared among… Source link

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What Are The New Lead Form Extensions In Google?

Google recently announced the release of new lead form extensions that had been in beta since the fall of 2019, as reported by DMS Insights. After users click on ads in search, video and Google Discover, the new (and improved) lead form extensions appear without requiring users to click through to landing pages or websites, as reported by Carolyn Lyden for Search Engine Land (SEL). After a Google lead form extension form is completed, users can opt to keep searching or click… Source link

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