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10 Sunday Reads

The Big Picture

This is way outside the norm,” said a former White House ethics lawyer. ProPublica ) see also Clarence Thomas’s ethics are not the Supreme Court’s only problem. The ethical conduct of the Supreme Court has been under growing scrutiny,” Emmarie Huetteman wrote. Huetteman hasn’t worked for the NYT since 2017.

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MiB: Charlie Ellis on Vanguard’s Rules of Investing

The Big Picture

Ellis recalls that “Bogle was a force of nature” who created and honed the firm’s philosophy and culture of strong ethics. This is our third conversation with the finance legend (see 2015 and 2017 editions). But Ellis also points out that most of the firm’s growth took place after Bogle stepped down as CEO.

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10 Sunday Reads

The Big Picture

My Sunday morning look at incompetency, corruption and policy failures: • Inside Sam Bankman-Fried’s Family Bubble : At Stanford Law School, Joseph Bankman and Barbara Fried specialized in ethics and social fairness. He disclosed none of these activities on his annual disclosure forms, an obvious violation of federal ethics law.

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10 Weekend Reads

The Big Picture

How We Got “Democracy Dies In Darkness”: And other stories from eight years running The Washington Post ( The Atlantic ) • Why We’ll Never Live in Space : Medical, financial and ethical hurdles stand in the way of the dream to settle in space. Currently, he is Vice Chairman of IBM.

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2017 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholder Meeting

Brown Advisory

2017 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholder Meeting achen Mon, 06/12/2017 - 15:11 Thousands of people come to Omaha each spring for the Berkshire Hathaway annual shareholders’ meeting to hear the insights of Warren Buffett and Charles Munger, Buffett’s longtime business partner. annualized compared with 6.9%

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2017 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholder Meeting

Brown Advisory

2017 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholder Meeting. Mon, 06/12/2017 - 15:11. Buffett and Munger celebrate good business and investment practices, the potential for human achievement, high ethics and decency to one’s fellow man. annualized compared with 6.9% Index Fund Investing Versus Berkshire (or Active Management).

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The Bad Actors

The Irrelevant Investor

There is no way that Wells found the 14,000 least ethical financial advisors in the industry. million at the start of 2017, had been charged $128,000 in commissions that year — nearly 10 percent of its valu e, and about 10 times what many financial planners would charge to manage accounts that size.

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