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The Audible Daily Deal is a good one today. It's a Great Courses lecture series from Robert Sapolsky (for $2.95):
Being Human: Life Lessons from the Frontiers of ScienceWhy do Family-Controlled Public Companies Outperform? The Value of Disciplined Governance [H/T @ChrisMayerAgora] (LINK)
George Cooper talks about his book,
Money, Blood and Revolution (video) (LINK)
Austbrokers faces major buffeting [H/T Linc] (LINK)
Corporate disasters usually stem from many small problems conspiring to cause one very big one. A dip in sales, distracted management, a little too much debt; for want of a nail, the kingdom was lost.
Austbrokers, however, is threatened by the opposite principle: one enormous problem that will cause many more. Warren Buffett wants to put the company out of business.
Video Captures Catlike Creature (a Genet) Riding Rare Rhino (LINK)
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The Audible Daily Deal looks like an interesting course from The Great Courses (for $3.95): How Ideas Spread (The lecturer also wrote a book on these ideas: Contagious: Why Things Catch On) Follow Buffett Reinsurance Guru’s Sage Advice...
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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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Horizon Kinetics - Under the Hood: What’s in Your Index? (LINK) A review of George Cooper's book, Money, Blood and Revolution (LINK) Shut Up When They’re Talking To You: Always Say Less Than Necessary - by Ryan Holiday (LINK) Book of...
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Today's Audible Daily Deal is well worth the $0.99 you pay for the audiobook (available until 11:59PM ET): The Little Book of Talent: 52 Tips for Improving Your Skills Drivers of ROE in the Context of Portfolio Management (LINK) Chris Mayer:...
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb's interview at the Tomorrow Conference in June 2015 (video) [H/T ValueWalk] (LINK) Related book: AntifragileRichard Thaler talks to Barry Ritholtz about his book, Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics (LINK)...
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