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60 Minutes on The Future of Money (video) (LINK)
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TED Talk - Tim Harford: How messy problems can inspire creativity (video) (LINK) The $500 Million Battle Over Disney’s Princesses: How Hasbro grabbed the lucrative Disney doll business from Mattel (LINK) [H/T @ChrisPavese] (LINK) Greg Ip on EconTalk...
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Howard Marks on Bloomberg TV (video) (LINK) Dec. 16 (Bloomberg) -- Howard Marks, co-chairman and co-founder of Oaktree Capital Group LLC, talks about investor concerns about Russia's financial markets, investment strategy and the outlook for oil prices...
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Horizon Kinetics: 3rd Quarter 2014 Commentary (LINK) Broyhill Q3 Letter (LINK) Google Thinks Amazon Is Its Biggest Competitor. Here’s why. [H/T The Big Picture] (LINK) Related books: How Google Works; The Everything Store (which was also a good...
- Howard Marks On Bloomberg
Link to video: Howard Marks on Risk Assessment, Market Strategy Sept. 5 (Bloomberg) -- Howard Marks, chairman of Oaktree Capital Group LLC, talks about assessing market risk, volatility and sentiment. Marks speaks with Stephanie Ruhle and Erik Schatzker...
- Nathan Myhrvold: The Wealthy Should Fund Innovation
For some technologists, it's enough to build something that makes them financially successful. They retire happily. Others stay with the company they founded for years and years, enthralled with the platform it gives them. Think how different the...
Money and Finance
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60 Minutes on The Future of Money (video) (LINK)
A "mobile money" revolution has swept Kenya, where people can send and receive money on their cell phones. It's improved commerce and brought basic necessities to poorer areasHoward Marks on Bloomberg last Friday (video) [H/T ValueWalk] (LINK)
Howard Marks, co-chairman at Oaktree Capital, discusses high-risk debt markets and the future of hedge funds.Bob Gurr, Disney Imagineer | Talks at Google (video) (LINK)
Retired Disney Imagineer Bob Gurr stopped by Google to discuss his career which spans 40 years developing more than 100 designs for attractions ranging from the Disneyland and Walt Disney World Monorails to the design of the mechanical workings of Disney’s first Audio-Animatronics® human figure, Abraham Lincoln, featured in Great Moments with Mr. Lincoln.Blue Origin completes successful Earth landing of its New Shepard rocket (LINK)
Jeff Bezos just accomplished the near impossible: one-upping Elon Musk.
Quote of the day, from John Mackey in the Whole Foods conference presentation from last week:Bezos’s private space company, Blue Origin, has just completed a successful Earth landing of its New Shepard rocket, making it the first reusable rocket to land totally intact, something that has eluded Musk’s SpaceX.
"But one thing about business is that if you're not willing to attack your own business model, you can't expect other people not to attack it.... You have to be willing to disrupt yourself because others are going to disrupt you."Book of the day: How the World Was One [H/T Chris Dixon in his chat with Shane Parrish. There are also more good books mentioned in the show notes]
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TED Talk - Tim Harford: How messy problems can inspire creativity (video) (LINK) The $500 Million Battle Over Disney’s Princesses: How Hasbro grabbed the lucrative Disney doll business from Mattel (LINK) [H/T @ChrisPavese] (LINK) Greg Ip on EconTalk...
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Howard Marks on Bloomberg TV (video) (LINK) Dec. 16 (Bloomberg) -- Howard Marks, co-chairman and co-founder of Oaktree Capital Group LLC, talks about investor concerns about Russia's financial markets, investment strategy and the outlook for oil prices...
- Links
Horizon Kinetics: 3rd Quarter 2014 Commentary (LINK) Broyhill Q3 Letter (LINK) Google Thinks Amazon Is Its Biggest Competitor. Here’s why. [H/T The Big Picture] (LINK) Related books: How Google Works; The Everything Store (which was also a good...
- Howard Marks On Bloomberg
Link to video: Howard Marks on Risk Assessment, Market Strategy Sept. 5 (Bloomberg) -- Howard Marks, chairman of Oaktree Capital Group LLC, talks about assessing market risk, volatility and sentiment. Marks speaks with Stephanie Ruhle and Erik Schatzker...
- Nathan Myhrvold: The Wealthy Should Fund Innovation
For some technologists, it's enough to build something that makes them financially successful. They retire happily. Others stay with the company they founded for years and years, enthralled with the platform it gives them. Think how different the...