Money and Finance
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National Archives Opens Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission Records [H/T Linc] (LINK) Prem Watsa's 2015 letter to shareholders [H/T ValueWalk] (LINK) Chuck Feeney, Bill Gates' and Warren Buffett’s hero, honored by Ireland Fund [H/T Linc] (LINK)...
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Nassim Taleb: 193 additional aphorisms and heuristics (LINK) Chuck Akre on WealthTrack (LINK) 'Biggest dinosaur ever' discovered (LINK) How do you like your 'toothfish?' (LINK) ...
- Boss Rail: The Disaster That Exposed The Underside Of The Boom. (china) – By Evan Osnos
Evan Osnos was also on Charlie Rose discussing this article and other China topics HERE. On the morning of July 23, 2011, passengers hurried across Beijing South Station at the final call to board bullet train D301, heading south on the world’s largest,...
- California And Bust - By Michael Lewis
The smart money says the U.S. economy will splinter, with some states thriving, some states not, and all eyes are on California as the nightmare scenario. After a hair-raising visit with former governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, who explains why the Golden...
- Buffett Tips Off Mu Crowd
During a videoconference yesterday, University of Missouri business students had the chance to pick the brain of the billionaire investor and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. as a part of a daylong educational forum hosted by MU’s Trulaske College of...
Money and Finance
Chuck Feeney: The Billionaire Who Is Trying To Go Broke
On a cool summer afternoon at Dublin’s Heuston Station, Chuck Feeney, 81, gingerly stepped off a train on his journey back from the University of Limerick, a 12,000-student college he willed into existence with his vision, his influence and nearly $170 million in grants, and hobbled toward the turnstiles on sore knees. No commuter even glanced twice at the short New Jersey native, one hand holding a plastic bag of newspapers, the other grasping an iron fence for support. The man who arguably has done more for Ireland than anyone since Saint Patrick slowly limped out of the station completely unnoticed. And that’s just how Feeney likes it.
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Related previous post: Secret Billionaire: The Chuck Feeney Story
Related book: The Billionaire Who Wasn't: How Chuck Feeney Made and Gave Away a Fortune Without Anyone Knowing
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National Archives Opens Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission Records [H/T Linc] (LINK) Prem Watsa's 2015 letter to shareholders [H/T ValueWalk] (LINK) Chuck Feeney, Bill Gates' and Warren Buffett’s hero, honored by Ireland Fund [H/T Linc] (LINK)...
- Links
Nassim Taleb: 193 additional aphorisms and heuristics (LINK) Chuck Akre on WealthTrack (LINK) 'Biggest dinosaur ever' discovered (LINK) How do you like your 'toothfish?' (LINK) ...
- Boss Rail: The Disaster That Exposed The Underside Of The Boom. (china) – By Evan Osnos
Evan Osnos was also on Charlie Rose discussing this article and other China topics HERE. On the morning of July 23, 2011, passengers hurried across Beijing South Station at the final call to board bullet train D301, heading south on the world’s largest,...
- California And Bust - By Michael Lewis
The smart money says the U.S. economy will splinter, with some states thriving, some states not, and all eyes are on California as the nightmare scenario. After a hair-raising visit with former governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, who explains why the Golden...
- Buffett Tips Off Mu Crowd
During a videoconference yesterday, University of Missouri business students had the chance to pick the brain of the billionaire investor and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. as a part of a daylong educational forum hosted by MU’s Trulaske College of...