Reuters – Paulson & Co, the hedge fund linked to civil fraud charges against Goldman Sachs , will launch a new fund open to retail investors, the Financial Times said on Thursday.
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Paulson & Co to launch retail fund: report
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Paul the German octopus chose Spain to beat the Netherlands in the World Cup finals. He has chosen all of the winners in the German games with 100% accuracy in this tournament. But will he be right when Germany’s off the pitch?
The Upshot – When he looks at the economy, Warren Buffett sees “recovery.” In an exclusive interview today with Yahoo! News and The Huffington Post (link), Buffett disagreed with the recent statement by New York Times columnist and Nobel Prize winning economist Paul …
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Buffett: ‘We’re coming back, no question in my mind’
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BusinessWeek – Some hedge fund managers are famous for big scores — John Paulson made $15 billion shorting the housing market. Then there’s Seth Klarman, who got rich by making money steadily over time. As markets began to collapse in 2008, the founder of Baupost Group focused on corporate bonds he calculated would yield solid returns even if the economy got worse. “We didn’t have the degree of conviction Paulson had,” says Klarman, 53, in an interview in his Boston office. “We don’t deal in absolutes. We deal in probabilities.”
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The Financial Life: Seth Klarman
(BusinessWeek)
Investor’s Business Daily – When Paul Gabrail and two partners snag a foreclosed home on the cheap, neighbors have good reason to cheer.
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Anti-Flippers Buy And Hold Cheap Homes
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The prestigious British medical journal Lancet took a rare step this week: It retracted a 1998 paper that sparked a firestorm about potential links between vaccines and autism. That paper has been a bane to Dr. Paul Offit, co-inventor of the rotavirus vaccine and chief of infectious diseases at Children’s Hospital in Philadelphia. Offit tells host Guy Raz why he thinks the paper was a disaster for parents seeking answers about autism.
Paul Pillar, professor at Georgetown University’s Center for Peace and Security Studies, talks with Renee Montagne about U.S. efforts to target and kill high-value Taliban targets in Pakistan. Is it working? And what does it accomplish?
The Hayden Planetarium in New York takes opera to the moon with a new production of Il Mondo Della Luna. Diane Paulus and Philip Bussmann talk about merging cosmos footage with music, how science can enhance the arts and the future of technology and theater.
Bdelloid rotifers haven’t had sex for 30 million years and that’s puzzling. Most asexual animals are doomed to extinction. Reporting in the journal Science , Paul Sherman and Chris Wilson explain the extraordinary adaptations that allow these rotifers to persist in celibacy.
Reuters – Paul Volcker, a member of the Obama administration’s economic team and a former chairman of the Federal Reserve, will testify on February 2 to a U.S. Senate committee on the latest White House bank regulation proposals.
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Senate panel to hear from Volcker on bank plan
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