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How Goldman Sachs, UBS, and more reacted to Walmart's $10 billion 'Black Swan' deal to sell Asda
The merger has taken the City largely by surprise. Analysts at Barclays dubbed it a "black swan" de…
Oscar Williams-Grut
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Announcing BI Global Trends Festival 2020 speakers: Don't miss Reed Hastings, Carlos Watson, Nouriel Roubini, Jennifer Jordan, and more!
The Business Insider Global Trends Festival will take place virtually from October 19-23. Here is o…
Business Insider
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6 Highly Influential People Share Their Favorite Books
Ryan Holiday is an author and the media strategist behind authors Tucker Max and Robert Greene. Rya…
Farnam Street
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That Time A Super Rich Hedge Fund Manager Wrestled His Middle-Class Brother Over A $50 Timex Watch
In 2002, Malcolm Gladwell wrote a New Yorker profile on Nassim Nicholas Taleb - Mark's one-time par…
Julia La Roche
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The CEO of a $736 billion asset manager that sidestepped the most toxic casualty of the financial crisis warns of the big risk in markets right now
The following week was a maelstrom in markets and I spent the entire week working with colleagues t…
Akin Oyedele
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Thomas Edison's Reaction To His Factory Burning Down Shows Why He Was So Successful
According to a 1961 Reader's Digest article by Edison's son Charles, Edison calmly walked over to h…
Richard Feloni
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The 100 best leadership and success books to read in your lifetime, according to Amazon
"We chose books to help people plan for their futures and/or deal better with their present," said …
Shana Lebowitz
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Would You Like To Be The ‘Lucky Idiot’ Or The ‘Skilful Investor’?
Have you ever invested without analysing the stock’s fundamentals and still ended up making lots of…
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The past is the future
A leading media group recently reached out to us with an interesting question: Why? One of the more…