Kindly note there would be no Read, Learn, Improve for the week ending 1-Jul-17 and 8-Jul-17. Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it – Link here How Yahoo Blew It – Selling ads against search – it seemed like such a simple thing. But while CEO Terry Semel fumbled and bumbled, Google …
Read More Read, Learn, Improve – 24-Jun-17How 15,080 Profitable Indian Companies Paid No Tax in 2015-16 – Link here Bulls, Bears & Charlatans – Link here The Unsung Heroes of Investing – Link here No One Has Ever Made a Corruption Machine Like This One – Link here To err is human; so is the failure to admit it – Link …
Read More Read, Learn, Improve – 17-Jun-17The 1% rule explains why a few people end up with most of the rewards – Link here or Link here The Doctor Is In. Co-Pay? $40,000 – Link here How Ravi Narain built the NSE, and then lost his grip – Link here A Dozen Thoughts from Charlie Munger from the 2017 Berkshire Annual Meeting …
Read More Read, Learn, Improve – 10-Jun-17I and my friend came across this interesting company, have a look and please let me know your views/feedback/comment, anything on the same – Link here Mumbai has an efficient, exclusive food-delivery service—if you can afford it – Link here WHY WE LIE: THE SCIENCE BEHIND OUR DECEPTIVE WAYS – Honesty may be the best policy, but …
Read More Read, Learn, Improve – 3-Jun-17Only Robots Can Tally What the Largest U.S. Pension Fund Pays in Fees –Link here Church of England made stunning 17% return on investments in 2016 –Link here – not sure if Mumbai’s Siddhivinayak or Shirdi Saibaba trust or any such religious trust have an active manager, I think it’s time their start doing …
Read More Read, Learn, Improve – 27-May-17These three firms own corporate America – Link here Syphilis is on the rise because penicillin isn’t profitable – Link here Make In Mozambique: The Real Reason Modi Visited – Link here Just The Good Stuff From Wednesday’s Google I/O Keynote – Link here – (don’t miss Augmented Reality video) America’s Cars Are Suddenly Getting Faster …
Read More Read, Learn, Improve – 20-May-17(Best read of the lot) Storytelling Animals – Link here The Stock Market Is Weirdly Calm. Here’s a Theory of Why – Link here This Tiny Arctic Town Loves Visitors Unless They’re Automotive Spies – In the Northern Swedish village of Arjeplog, where automakers test secret prototypes, car photographers are considered a public nuisance – …
Read More Read, Learn, Improve – 13-May-17Watch: Robot bricklayers are here. Could they replace manual construction workers in India too? – Robotic process automation could lead to a loss of half of the world’s jobs by 2050 – Link here What if You Could Grow a Baby in a Bottle? – Link here A Chicken That Grows Slower and Tastes …
Read More Read, Learn, Improve – 6-May-17Frank and Steven’s Excellent Corporate-Raiding Adventure – Two law professors tried to mimic big activist hedge funds, investing their retirement savings in a small, languishing public company and trying to shake it up. Here’s what happened – Link here Is It Time to Break Up Google? – Link here Grantham: The Rules Have Changed …
Read More Read, Learn, Improve – 29-Apr-17The Most Important Lessons – Lesson 1: Know thyself, value investor – Link here Outlook grows dimmer for stock-picking fund managers – Link here The $90 Billion Investor Who’s Out to Fire Wall Street – Link here Lies, Damn Lies, and Financial Statistics – Link here China Is Playing a $9 Trillion Game of …
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