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10 Weekend Reads

The Big Picture

Pour yourself a mug of coffee, grab a seat by the window, and get ready for our longer-form weekend reads: • How New York and California Botched Marijuana Legalization : Steep taxes and heavy regulation are making it hard for licensed pot sellers to operate in some states, driving more producers and buyers to illegal outlets.

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Transcript: Elizabeth Burton, Goldman Sachs Asset Management

The Big Picture

One, one is true and I’ve always said is that I wanted people to stop, ask if I could doing math. And no one asked me if I can do math anymore with a degree from Booth, particularly in econometrics and statistics. So people really ask you, you take French and can you do math. Two reasons. There was a good equity rebound.

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Transcript: Steven Klinsky

The Big Picture

So I mean, in ’07 and ’08, you know, what killed the economy in ’07 and ‘08 were mortgages going down. I mean, if we really stretched 10 times net income, I think if we find the hot buyer, we can get the 10 times, you know, with no adjustments, no trickery after tax net income, that would be a great price for most businesses.

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The 16 Best Business Ideas For Women

Clever Girl Finance

They help keep the economy running while improving their own lives and innovating new ways to make the world better. If you liked math in school and have a knack for numbers, you might make a great bookkeeper. After all, we’re half the population—that’s billions of women with unique ideas, skillsets, and visions for the future.

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The 48 Best Business Ideas For Women

Clever Girl Finance

They help keep the economy running while improving their own lives and innovating new ways to make the world better. Bookkeeping and accounting If you liked math in school and have a knack for numbers, you might make a great bookkeeper. Related posts on business ideas for women Try out one of these best business ideas for women!

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Transcript: Liz Hoffman

The Big Picture

Burger King Tim Hortons, I remember very clearly because it was in the middle of those waves of kind of tax dodgy, those inversion deals. And it was day by day from the seat of, it was the month that the economy shut down. And it’s two dozen CEOs, investors, policy makers from like all across the economy. RITHOLTZ: Right.

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Transcript: Steve Case

The Big Picture

? ?. The transcript from this week’s, MiB: Steve Case on AOL, Startups & Venture , is below. And if you are at all interested in technology, venture, startups, entrepreneurship, I suspect you will also. And in our early days, we really just tried to figure out like many startups get noticed to stay alive.

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