Don Coxe Basic Points August 2012.PDF BMO

Berkshire Profit Falls 9 Percent On Buffett’s Derivatives Bets. Bloomberg

Kinross CEO Shakeup Signals Breakup Or Sale Of Gold Miner. Bloomberg

Hold the Bubbly: London Financiers Keep Low Profile at Olympics. WSJ

Conrad Black: Church, state, and Barack Obama. National Post

John Hempton'a latest short. Richemont: waiting for the bullet. Bronte Capital

Berkeley Laser Fires Pulses Hundreds of Times More Powerful Than All the World’s Electric Plants Combined. Scientific American

Ivanhoe Mines rebranded to Turquoise Hill Resources and got a new website$IVN (soon to be $TRQ)

NASA awards $1.1 billion to Boeing, SpaceX, Sierra Nevada Corporation. Christian Science Monitor

Andrew Ross Sorkin long form interview with the best. Charlie Rose
Andrew Ross Sorkin on Charlie Rose
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Cuban pumping commercial real estate...

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