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Berkshire’s moneymakers

By Steve Jordon, From Omaha World-Herald Co., Warren Buffett’s decision to hire two investment lieutenants is paying off for Berkshire […]

Dow, S&P500 Surge to Record Highs

  By The Daily Ticker |Michael Santoli The Dow Jones Industrial Average jumped above 15,000 for the first time in […]

Bitcoin Craze Highlights Intrinsic Value of Gold and Silver (GLD, SLV, EBAY, AMZN)

If you have been following the coverage of Bitcoin this week, you have seen a frenzy level come about. The […]

Robot recruiters

How software helps firms hire workers more efficiently     THE problem with human-resource managers is that they are human. […]

Mr. Emerging Markets Is Bullish on the US

By Dan Weil, From Money News, Antoine van Agtmael, the investment pro who came up with the term “emerging markets” […]

Home prices rise, seen helping economic recovery

By Jason Lange WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Home prices rose in February at their fastest rate in almost seven years, a […]

High Yield H2O Stocks

How many uses of water are there? Let me count the ways. drinking agricultural irrigation washing as a solvent as […]

Return and Ridicule

By Fred Wilson, Union Square Ventures, From http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2013/04/return-and-ridicule.html I am going down to Princeton today to talk to Ed Zschau’s […]

Bubble or No, This Virtual Currency Is a Lot of Coin in Any Realm

WHEN he was a Yale Law School student, Reuben Grinberg wrote one of the first academic papers about Bitcoin, a […]

Citigroup Looking More Like A Normal Big Bank These Days

With its first full quarter with new CEO Michael Corbat in charge now in the books, Citigroup (NYSE:C) continues to […]