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New Zuckerberg-Chan Pledge Exceeds All of America’s 2014 Charitable Giving (not really)
December 2nd, 2015 | Source: NPQ
Source; Washington Post
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Business is booming at the Harvard of pot in California
November 16th, 2015 | Source: Washington Post
Jean Kennedy has a BS in biology and a master’s in special education. Now, she’s trying to decide what to do with her third degree: a certificate of achievement from Oaksterdam University, the Harvard Business School of marijuana.
“I’m Italian,” said Kennedy, 56, a retired high school biology teacher with graying hair and a heavy New York accent. “You know Italians, we grow tomatoes. Maybe I’ll grow some plants.”
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A Tale of Two Retirements
October 28th, 2015 | Source: For Effective Government.org
The retirement assets of CEOs at our largest corporations have exploded while the rest of us wonder when or if we’ll be able to retire.
A Tale of Two Retirements, released this morning, found that the 100 largest CEO retirement accounts are worth a combined $4.9 billion.
That’s equal to the combined retirement accounts of 41 percent of American families.
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Medicare‘s 50th Anniversary
July 29th, 2015 | Source: actuary.org
The 50th anniversary of Medicare, enacted on July 30, 1965, with President Lyndon Johnson’s signing of the Social Security Amendments of 1965, is a significant milestone for one of the most important social insurance programs in our nation’s history.
The Journalist and The Expert: Rapprochement Required
June 21st, 2015 | Source: Monday Note
At a time when the information world becomes increasingly shallow, journalists ought to join forces with experts. The alliance would bring deeper knowledge to journos and sharper story-telling to eggheads.
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Spiritual Lending: When Microfinance Mixes With Religion
May 23rd, 2015 | Source: WSJ.com
In Thailand, Buddhist monks don’t just serve people’s spiritual needs, they also manage microfinance networks that help the country’s poorest citizens.
Video/Photo: Warangkana Chomchuen: http://financingthefuture.wsj.com/videos/%7B8BA69888-4810-4E07-9E0A-C34E...
House Flippers Are Back Together With Wall St. What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
May 8th, 2015 | Source: Bloomberg
Real estate buyers seeking money to renovate and flip U.S. houses are getting help from some of the world’s biggest investment firms.
Colony Capital Inc., Blackstone Group LP and Cerberus Capital Management are among the companies that have started making bridge loans to investors who buy homes to sell them quickly for a profit. Borrowing costs -- traditionally the highest in residential lending -- are tumbling as the firms compete for customers.
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The Battery Age begins: Sungevity pairs home solar with batteries
May 1st, 2015 | Source: SFChronicle
Sungevity will offer devices from Sonnenbatterie to its customers wanting to store solar power.
The race to put a battery in every basement has begun.
Oakland solar company Sungevity said Wednesday that it will offer its customers a home battery system to store electricity from their rooftop solar arrays. Germany’s Sonnenbatterie will supply the batteries.
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How Bitcoin Technology Could Make Home Buying Hassle-Free
May 1st, 2015 | Source: Fast Company
Imagine yourself as a first-time homebuyer. You’re about to write the biggest check of your life for the down payment, not to mention taking on a monster loan. You have no idea who you can trust—from agent to lawyer to inspector—or what the process should be. And the list of—let’s face it—crappy experiences on the road to homeownership goes on. Must this meaningful life event be riddled with stress and anxiety from the get-go? It doesn't have to be.
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