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For those who prefer audio, it looks like
Charlie Munger: The Complete Investor is now available as an audiobook.
How Playing the Long Game Made Elizabeth Holmes a Billionaire [H/T Will] (LINK)
Seeking Wisdom In India - by Jana Vembunarayanan (LINK)
More notes from the annual meeting of Dhandho Holdings and Pabrai Funds (LINK)
Warren Buffett's short interview (video) with Reuters from a couple of weeks ago (when he was doing the auction lunch interviews) [H/T Will] (LINK)
This Car Dealer Turned Billionaire Got a Little Help From Buffett [H/T Linc] (LINK)
Insurance Deals Gather Momentum Amid Cost Squeeze [H/T Matt] (LINK)
The feverish pace of global deal making is spreading to yet another industry: insurance. Deal makers don’t expect the pace to slacken any time soon.
A mix of impending new capital requirements, flagging profit growth and low investment returns has led insurance companies to turn to consolidation to try to cut costs and improve profitability.
Across the globe, $103.2 billion worth of insurance deals have taken place so far this year, more than double the value compared with the same period last year, according to data tracker Dealogic.
David Tepper builds Hamptons mansion on land bought from boss who snubbed him (LINK)
Scientists have had to tap the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Norway because of the chaos in Syria (LINK)
In search of the moustached kingfisher bird (LINK)
Book of the day [H/T @tferriss]: Anything You Want: 40 Lessons for a New Kind of Entrepreneur
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Warren Buffett on CNBC.... Links to videos: Warren Buffett: When stocks go down it's good news Warren Buffett: Negative effects of low oil Warren Buffett: Expected rails to do better Warren Buffett: Earning power our annual goal Distracted driver...
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Warren Buffett’s Family Secretly Funded a Birth Control Revolution [H/T Linc] (LINK) Donald Yacktman: "Viewing Stocks as Bonds" | Talks at Google (video) [H/T ValueWalk] (LINK) Value Guru Joel Greenblatt's Performance Could Be A Sign Of Overheated...
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I'll be on vacation posting over the next week and a half or so, where I've scheduled some quotes and book excerpts, but probably won't post much else, if anything. Latticework of Mental Models: Law of Diminishing Marginal Utility (LINK) Mutual...
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Notes from the Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting (Part I, Part II) Philosophical Economics: Profit Margins in a “Winner Take All” Economy (LINK) Zenefits Is Tagged With a $4.5 Billion Valuation After Just Two Years (LINK) [The Co-Founder was...
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Michael Lewis on Charlie Rose discussing Flash Boys, one year after publication (video) (LINK) How to Succeed in Life, the Warren Buffett Way (LINK) Things You Didn’t Know About Buffett’s Strategy (LINK) Warren Buffett and 3G May Have One Barrier...
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