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Lane Kiffin got a bit creative when finding Ole Miss’ next punter this fall. Kiffin locked down punter Charlie Pollock at a frat party, which feels like a recruiting tactic that only he could pull off. “I don’t know a whole lot about him. I think he was down at the frat house at a keg party or something where they got him from,” Kiffin said on Saturday. “We’ve got some conditioning work to do with my guy.” Now, Pollock isn’t just some random greek life member. Pollock was a… Source link

When Hill was a young comic in the 1970s, he refused to deign to racist stereotypes of Native Americans. Rather, his material addressed bigotry toward Native Americans throughout history, taking aim at White viewers, the forced displacement of indigenous people and even the harmful history of Christopher Columbus and Plymouth Rock Pilgrims. In 1977, 26-year-old Hill appeared on “The Richard Pryor Show,” the first time a Native American stand-up performed on a program that aired across the… Source link

Berkshire Hathaway Vice Chairman Charlie Munger did some kicking of a downed dog on Saturday. “Wasn’t that pretty obvious that something like that was going to happen?” Munger said during the Berkshire Hathaway annual shareholders meeting after bringing up Robinhood’s business troubles, later adding the company’s business model “was disgusting… God is getting just. … There’s been some justice.” A spokesperson for Robinhood didn’t immediately return Yahoo Finance’s request for… Source link

Tesla CEO Elon Musk.Chris Saucedo/Getty Images for SXSW Billionaire investor Charlie Munger once told people at a lunch “all the ways Tesla would fail,” Elon Musk recounted. Musk said the Berkshire Hathaway vice chairman’s comment made him “quite sad.” Tesla is currently the world’s most valuable carmaker with a market capitalization of $954.3 billion. Elon Musk said billionaire investor Charlie Munger once told people at a lunch “all the ways Tesla would fail.” The Tesla CEO was responding to a… Source link

In an exclusive interview Wednesday with Yahoo Finance Editor-in-Chief Andy Serwer, legendary investor Charlie Munger weighed in on the high stakes of soaring inflation in the United States. Citing examples from the Roman Republic to Adolf Hitler to Latin America, Munger said, “Inflation is a very serious subject, you could argue it is the way democracies die.” He notes that it was after of years of inflation when “eventually the whole damn Roman Empire collapsed, so [the current… Source link

Charlie Munger just doubled his bet on tech giant Alibaba to $71.5 million — try these 3 China plays instead to diversify your exposure Warren Buffett is famous for getting “greedy when others are fearful.” And his right-hand man Charlie Munger isn’t opposed to going against the herd, either. Best known as Berkshire Hathaway’s vice chairman and Buffett’s long-time business partner, Munger also serves as the chairman of Daily Journal, a newspaper publisher with a sizable stock portfolio of… Source link

A red-and-black-clad Woods tore up the course at the PNC Championship Sunday … and it wasn’t Tiger. Twelve-year-old Charlie Woods officially stepped onto golf’s world stage Sunday afternoon. He might become a professional golfer in his father’s footsteps, or he might just end up playing the game for fun. Either way, right now he’s the talk of the sport, and justifiably so.   Tiger and Charlie fell to the duo of John Daly and son John Daly II, but the tournament came down to the final two… Source link

Bloomberg Buffett’s Berkshire Gets More Cautious on Stocks and Buybacks (Bloomberg) — Warren Buffett’s capital-deployment machine pulled back on several fronts at the start of the year as the billionaire took a more cautious stance on stocks.Berkshire Hathaway Inc.’s net stock sales in the first quarter were the second-highest in almost five years and the conglomerate, where the billionaire is chief executive officer, slowed its buyback pace, according to a regulatory filing Saturday…. Source link

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

Berkshire Hathaway Vice Chairman Charlie Munger gave his views about Robinhood, zero-commission trading, and the GameStop frenzy on Wednesday. Speaking at the Q&A portion of the annual meeting of the Daily Journal, a technology and publishing company where Munger is also executive chairman, the 97-year-old held little back, impugning the no-commission business model as “a dirty way to make money.” When asked about the GameStop trading frenzy that unfolded in January, Munger said his views… Source link