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2) Tap dancing to work: Warren Buffett on practically everything, 1966-2012 : a Fortune magazine book
Publisher
Portfolio/Penguin
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fortune editor Carol Loomis has collected and updated the best Buffett articles published in Fortune magazine between 1966 and 2012, including thirteen cover stories and a dozen pieces authored by Buffett himself. Loomis has provided commentary about each major article, supplying context and her own informed point of view. Readers will gain fresh insights into Buffett's investment strategies and his thinking on management, philanthropy, public policy,...
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2015
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 336 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
It was a time of unregulated madness at the dawn of the Roaring Twenties. Leo Koretz, a lawyer from Chicago, enticed hundreds of people to invest as much as $30 million in phantom timberland and nonexistent oil wells in Panama. Leo vanished when his scheme finally collapsed in 1923.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"When Bill Browder's young Russian lawyer, Sergei Magnitsky, was beaten to death in a Moscow jail, Browder made it his life's mission to go after his killers and make sure they faced justice. The first step of that mission was to uncover who was behind the $230 million tax refund scheme that Magnitsky was killed over. As Browder and his team tracked the money as it flowed out of Russia through the Baltics and Cyprus and on to Western Europe and the...