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| CRISIS breeds opportunity, as the bottom-fishers starting to circle beaten-up mortgage bonds and leveraged loans can attest. For George Soros it offers a chance of a different sort: to revive his... | |
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| Mr Buffett is often identified as the heir to his mentor, Benjamin Graham. Graham emphasised intelligent investment based on fundamental value. But in Graham’s day the ability to read a company... | |
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| From a Ming dynasty explorer to fast-food titans to contemporary American computer whizzes, meet 30 all-time greats.They are early colonial traders, 19th-century industrialists, and today's... | |
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| My name is usually associated with Iscar, and I am glad that it is. But Iscar is a well-known story, and I want to speak here not of billion-dollar businesses, but of two relatively new, relatively... | |
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