| As I learned in a series of conversations with Robertson over the past six months, the man once known as "The Wizard of Wall Street" for the incredible success he had running his hedge fund firm... | |
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| It may have begun as a problem with subprime mortgages in the U.S., but markets and lenders throughout the world have been spooked by billions in bad loans and credit instruments. Here's a map to the... | |
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| Of all the tricks that life can play, it's hard to imagine any stranger than what befell Melinda French. Today she is living in a gargantuan high-tech mansion on the shores of Lake Washington,... | |
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| Walter Schloss has lived through 17 recessions, starting with one when Woodrow Wilson was President. This old-school value investor has made money through many of them. What's ahead for the economy?... | |
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| Scientists think the new field of neuroeconomics can explain some business behavior, perhaps even distinguish rational from irrational decisions. Are some people's brains hardwired to run companies... | |
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| Free enterprise has been good to Bill Gates. But today, the Microsoft Corp. chairman will call for a revision of capitalism.In a speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, the software... | |
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| George Soros hired money management firm BlackRock Inc's co-founder Keith Anderson as his hedge fund's chief investment officer, selecting the fourth person for the position in eight years.Anderson,... | |
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| If Warren Buffett can't figure out derivatives, can anybody?For hundreds of years, the way to solve problems in the financial market was clear: Get Wall Street’s titans in one place and knock heads.... | |
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| RESTAURANTS charging inflated prices for wine could be doing their customers a favour. A study has found that people who pay more for a product do enjoy it more.The researchers discovered that people... | |
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| On Wall Street, the losers in the collapse of the housing market are legion. The biggest winner looks to be John Paulson, a little-known hedge fund manager who smelled trouble two years ago. Funds he... | |
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