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Is Warren Buffett the "only ... man in history [who] has invested billions of dollars of other people’s money successfully over the long run"?
In "$1 billion stakes on the menu", The Economist (2016-05-21 print edition) writes:
only one man in history has invested billions of dollars of other people’s money successfully over the long run: Warren Buffett.
Is this claim plausible?
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Did big investors use pre-knowledge of 9/11 to short American stocks?
There are many claims that some large investors had foreknowledge of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, and used that to buy "put" options - especially in the affected airlines - that allowed them to benefit from stock drops.
Further, some…
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Did US Govt profit from the 2008 financial crash bailouts?
This site here says that basically, the government sold back some of the assets it bought to bail-out banks during the financial crisis of '08.
I'm assuming it was basically the federal bank that financed this bail-out, which we can see essentially…
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Can credit cards be cloned remotely with an RFID reader?
This news story from "13 Investigates" shows Walt Augustinowicz (an RFID expert, and seller of RFID proof pouches) who has a portable reader than picks up credit card details while they are still in people's wallets and purses.
He also demonstrates…
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Will Australian unions be getting $AU22m per year from superannuation funds?
This article from The Fair Go (a group sponsored by the Liberal Party of Australia) claims that Australian unions will get $AU22 million per year from superannuation.
IF THIS RATE OF GROWTH CONTINUES OVER THE NEXT TEN YEARS, INDUSTRY FUNDS WILL BE…
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Was NYSE outage on July 8th, 2015 a result of a cyber attack?
New York Stock Exchange claims that the downtime was due "internal technical issue" and denies claims of cyber attack.
On the other hand, allegedly few hours prior to the outage Anonymous has tweeted:
Wonder if tomorrow is going to be bad for Wall…
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