Before Facebook Deal, Instagram's Talks With Twitter - NYTimes.com

Before Facebook Deal, Instagram's Talks With Twitter - NYTimes.com:

This one will be talked about for years:

"Facebook’s deal to buy Instagram for $1 billion stunned Wall Street and Silicon Valley when it was announced in April. But executives at Twitter had an additional reason to be surprised. Instagram’s founders “held several meetings as late as March with top Twitter executives,” The New

Irving Fisher, the First Celebrity Finance Professor - Bloomberg

Irving Fisher, the First Celebrity Finance Professor - Bloomberg:

A history lesson on the man behind the "Fisher effect"

"Fisher developed revolutionary insights into financial theory that are still invoked today. He explained that the market interest rate coincides with the human tendency to discount an uncertain future when compared with the more pressing present. He argued that we distribute

Take the money: Why we make better financial decisions for strangers than family


Take the money: Why we make better financial decisions for strangers than family

This
one should not really surprise anyone and is essentially the logic
behind my recent test question of "what is the role of a financial
planner in the face of investors prone to behavioral biases".


"They
found participants were more likely to select a smaller immediate
reward than delay for a larger