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The other day I introduced a new central tenet of mine, something I’ve only recently come to understand that I fully intend to stick with for life. The basic premise was to only associate yourself, whenever it’s within your control, with “A-Listers.” I’m not talking about A-Listers in the sense that they’re famous or celebrities,…

Zara is one of those global brands that almost no one in America knows about. But the New York Times has a profile of it this weekend on the heels of its founder, Amancio Ortega, having bumped ahead of Buffett on the Bloomberg Billionaire Index. What’s the secret of the massive fashion retailer’s success? Just-in-time…

“Do you want to be right or do you want to make money?” That was the question my boss asked all the rally-haters during the QE2 surge in late 2010. His email inbox was filled with “But they’re just kicking the can!” or “Stocks are only rallying because of the Fed!” Believe me, I saw…

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Michael Noer’s Forbes cover story on Khan Acadamy and all of the other education ideas and startups that are revolutionizing how we learn is must-read stuff… “Once you have device-based learning, you are producing so much data we know everything about what you know and how you learn best,” says Knewton CEO Jose Ferreira. “You…

I took a walk around the neighborhood yesterday afternoon, it was sunny and we’ve been pretty hands off with this market since before Halloween. I was struck by the amount of personal possessions that had been destroyed and left on the street – still there 12 days after Sandy. Furniture and clothing and appliances and…

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