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Salman Khan | David's Macro Blog
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David's Macro Blog. Analysis and commentary on business, economics, real estate, financial markets, and other fun topics. Khan Academy: Radical Education Change that Actually Works. Could one guy making free education videos in his closet alter the entire multi-billion dollar educational landscape forever? Salman Khan left his lucrative hedge fund career in his 30’s to spend full-time making educational videos for Khan Academy. Watch Practice. Learn almost anything for free. Authors @ Google Salman Khan.
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Web 2.0 Summit 2010 | David's Macro Blog
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David's Macro Blog. Analysis and commentary on business, economics, real estate, financial markets, and other fun topics. Tag: Web 2.0 Summit 2010. Mark Zuckerberg at Web 2.0 Summit: Facebook’s Plan to Build out the Social Internet Ecosystem. Over the next five years almost every major product vertical will be rethought to be social. GET ON THE BUS! Mark Zuckerberg Interview at Web 2.0 Summit. Quotes are Mark Zuckerberg unless otherwise noted). The bottom line we found was that you make something social ...
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Innovation | David's Macro Blog
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David's Macro Blog. Analysis and commentary on business, economics, real estate, financial markets, and other fun topics. Mark Zuckerberg at Web 2.0 Summit: Facebook’s Plan to Build out the Social Internet Ecosystem. Over the next five years almost every major product vertical will be rethought to be social. GET ON THE BUS! Mark Zuckerberg Interview at Web 2.0 Summit. Quotes are Mark Zuckerberg unless otherwise noted). The bottom line we found was that you make something social and that rethinks the whol...
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Reviews and Predictions | David's Macro Blog
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David's Macro Blog. Analysis and commentary on business, economics, real estate, financial markets, and other fun topics. Category: Reviews and Predictions. Most Memorable Photos of the Past Decade 2000-2010. 2010 Year in Review. It is always interesting to go back and read what I wrote last year because often I’ve forgotten! Plus it is humbling to realize how imperfectly we see the future, which looked so clear at the time. My favorite quote for 2010 is:. Notable Events During 2010. Credit was tight for...
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Success | David's Macro Blog
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David's Macro Blog. Analysis and commentary on business, economics, real estate, financial markets, and other fun topics. SEAL Training – Train the Best, Discard the Rest. Whose existence has never been officially acknowledged, is the group of men who entered Pakistan and killed Usama Bin Laden at his home. They are just like the super quiet helicopters used to fly into Pakistan undetected, just 1 hour from its capital city. I’ll wait, Lieutenant Moore said. A number of the race horses were the biggest c...
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Economics | David's Macro Blog
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David's Macro Blog. Analysis and commentary on business, economics, real estate, financial markets, and other fun topics. Why Lehman Failed and Filed for Bankruptcy. During the height of the 2008 credit crunch, Lehman Brothers, led by CEO Dick Fuld, was not bailed out by the government. Instead, it was allowed to fail and become the largest bankruptcy in history. How did this 150-year old firm that survived the Civil War and the Great Depression fail? The short answer is, the firm was obsessed with growth.
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C-SPAN Interview of Michael Lewis on The Big Short | David's Macro Blog
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David's Macro Blog. Analysis and commentary on business, economics, real estate, financial markets, and other fun topics. C-SPAN Interview of Michael Lewis on The Big Short. When did Wall Street become the dumb money? Why did traders who lost on their bets still earn millions (sometimes tens of millions) in income? The most remarkable thing to me is that individual traders on BOTH. Sides of the bet (for or against subprime mortgages) got rich while their firms collapsed and taxpayers got the bill. There ...
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Business and Finance | David's Macro Blog
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David's Macro Blog. Analysis and commentary on business, economics, real estate, financial markets, and other fun topics. Category: Business and Finance. Mark Zuckerberg at Web 2.0 Summit: Facebook’s Plan to Build out the Social Internet Ecosystem. Over the next five years almost every major product vertical will be rethought to be social. GET ON THE BUS! Mark Zuckerberg Interview at Web 2.0 Summit. Quotes are Mark Zuckerberg unless otherwise noted). The bottom line we found was that you make something s...
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social media | David's Macro Blog
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David's Macro Blog. Analysis and commentary on business, economics, real estate, financial markets, and other fun topics. Mark Zuckerberg at Web 2.0 Summit: Facebook’s Plan to Build out the Social Internet Ecosystem. Over the next five years almost every major product vertical will be rethought to be social. GET ON THE BUS! Mark Zuckerberg Interview at Web 2.0 Summit. Quotes are Mark Zuckerberg unless otherwise noted). The bottom line we found was that you make something social and that rethinks the whol...