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A few months later, Trump—who didn’t like to use email and was not particularly tech savvy—sent out the first tweet he had typed out for himself on an Android smartphone, thanking an actress for her warm words about him. McConney later compared the moment to the scene in the movie Jurassic Park, when dinosaurs realize they can open doors themselves. In Trump’s case, no longer having to rely on staff meant there was no one to mediate his worst impulses, such as when he targeted the 1950s actress Kim Novak for her plastic surgery, sending her into a deep depression. (After Novak released a statement that accused him of bullying, he apologized privately.)
Confidence Man
Maggie Haberman
It’s safe to say that The Origin of Species (as it became known after Darwin himself dropped the On from a later edition) is one of the most influential books ever written. What printed works surpass it in reach and impact? Maybe the Bible, the Qur’an, the Mahabharata, and a few other scriptural texts that have inspired millions of people to piety and bloodshed. What stands in the same category? Maybe De revolutionibus orbium coelestium by Copernicus, maybe Newton’s Principia, and maybe, if you count journal articles, the two papers of 1905 and 1916 in which Einstein described special and general relativity. Unlike those other great works of science, though, The Origin is a book written in plain everyday language and meant by its author to speak to any attentive reader.
The Reluctant Mr. Darwin
David Quammen
Other special situation areas with the potential to create even more bargain opportunities include restructurings, mergers, liquidations, asset sales, distributions, rights offerings, recapitalizations, options, smaller foreign securities, complex securities, and many more. In fact, I wrote a whole (poorly titled) book about these types of investments,2 and I spend a good amount of time teaching my MBA class about them each year. These special situations involving companies going through various types of extraordinary change clearly provide fertile ground for bargain hunters. Unfortunately, this area still presents some serious roadblocks for many investors. First, since the individual special situations are fairly unique, each investment requires a reasonable amount of time and effort to find and evaluate.
The Big Secret for the Small Investor
Joel Greenblatt
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