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Self-Improvement and Money Management, Finances and Investing

Self-Improvement and Money Management, Finances and Investing

FIRE movement: Financial Independence, Retire Early

FIRE movement: Financial Independence, Retire Early

Rentals: Real estate and personal finances - using rental properties

Rentals: Real estate and personal finances - using rental properties

London UK - financial center

London UK - financial center

Exit strategies: sell your startup company - M&A acquisitions

Exit strategies: sell your startup company - M&A acquisitions

Citibank - Banking, Financial Markets and Regulations

Citibank - Banking, Financial Markets and Regulations

Money Laundering - Offshore investing, International Financial Markets

Money Laundering - Offshore investing, International Financial Markets

Commodity exporting and economic development

Commodity exporting and economic development

Fintech - future of Digital finance, payments, banking

Fintech - future of Digital finance, payments, banking

Pensions, retirement plans and Debt, Government Budget Deficits

Pensions, retirement plans and Debt, Government Budget Deficits

LIBOR, interest rates, global financial markets and scandals, manipulation

LIBOR, interest rates, global financial markets and scandals, manipulation

Investing in Artificial Intelligence (AI) Startups - examples, companies

Guide for potential INVESTORS: An introduction to Investing in Artificial Intelligence (AI) Star...

Credit Cards - Visa, Mastercard, more

Credit Cards - Visa, Mastercard, more

Central Banking - the Federal Reserve, Interest Rates, Inflation, Money Supply issues

Central Banking - the Federal Reserve, Interest Rates, Inflation, Money Supply issues

Fintech - Digital finance, payments and a changing global financial system

Fintech - Digital finance, payments and a changing global financial system

Debt, Government Budget Deficits and the USA

Debt, Government Budget Deficits and the USA

International Financial Markets - global hubs for international finance

International Financial Markets - global hubs for international finance

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Article

Stockmarkets. The potential listing of Shein is a test of London’s allure

It would also intensify scrutiny of the fast-fashion giant | Britain (2024)


Article

They thought they were joining an accelerator — instead they lost their startups | TechCrunch

When the now-defunct Austin accelerator Newchip filed for bankruptcy, founders learned that warrants into their startups were being sold off. (2024)


Article

The 'valley of death' for climate lies between early-stage funding and scaling up | TechCrunch

It's easier for climate companies to get enough funding to get started. It's much harder once they need money to scale. (2024)


Article

FIRECalc: A different kind of retirement calculator

Thinking of chucking it all and retiring early, long before you startgetting a pension or Social Security, and before you have ready access to your... (2024)


Article

EB-5 visa program: The Rural Ski Slope Caught Up in an International Scam | The New Yorker

A federal program promised to bring foreign investment to remote parts of the country. It soon became rife with fraud. Sheelah Kolhatkar reports. ... (2024)


Article

Dealwise: The marketplace for buying and selling SaaS companies | Y Combinator

Get acquired, or find your next acquisition target (2023)


Article

How Does the World’s Largest Hedge Fund Really Make Its Money? - The New York Times

Ray Dalio’s investing tactics have always been a closely kept secret, even inside Bridgewater Associates. Several years ago, some of Wall Street’s ... (2023)


Article

Economic integration: How Asia is reinventing its economic model

A new Era of Asian commerce. How the continent at the heart of globalization is reinventing itself. The continent’s future will involve less Weste... (2023)


Article

Visa acquires Brazilian fintech startup Pismo in $1B blockbuster deal | TechCrunch

Credit card giant Visa is acquiring Brazilian payments infrastructure provider Pismo for $1 billion in cash. (2023)


Article

Trade and Geopolitics; enter the investment police. America’s plan to vet investments into China

Citing national security, America’s government considers tighter rules on outbound capital | Business Placing limits on America’s globetrotting ... (2023)


Article

Professional services; PwC has disgraced itself down under

The firm’s employees helped multinationals dodge taxes in Australia | Business The professional services giant is in hot water over allegations ... (2023)


Article

The Opportunity for Healthcare x Fintech | Andreessen Horowitz

The healthcare system is broken—fintech offers solutions. How technology will make healthcare more intuitive, efficient, and cost-effective. Tho... (2023)


Article

Banking. The financial system is slipping into state control

Government control the banking sector; What will it look like after the next spell of instability? | Finance & economics (2023)


Article

Interest rates: LIBOR will at last be switched off in June

The scandal-ridden benchmark is a relic of a previous era. By 2012 LIBOR set the rates for contracts governing some $550 trillion, more than seven ... (2023)


Article

Africa’s debts. Africa faces a mounting debt crisis

Rising rates are hurting some of its brightest economic stars. Some of the continent’s brightest economic stars are in serious trouble (2023)


Article

The fight over the future of global payments. Financial fragmentation

Digital payments have transformed domestic finance. Now competition is going global. A challenge to the West’s legacy system, including the Visa-Ma... (2023)


Article

China and the West take a step to ease Africa’s debt crisis

A deal for Ghana is the first test case for a new approach. IMF, World Bank, the Paris Club, China and lending in Africa (2023)


Article

Digital Finance: As payments systems go digital, they are changing global finance | Special Report

The fight over payments systems is hotting up around the world. There may be surprising winners, says Arjun Ramani | Special report For centurie... (2023)


Article

What Happens if the US Defaults on its Debt?

Understand the different types of defaults, what happens if the US defaults on its debt, and how it could impact your finances. (2023)


Article

Indian firms are flocking to the United Arab Emirates. Asian commerce.

Forget Mumbai. Dubai is the place to be. Why Indian business is flocking to the United Arab Emirates. All of this suggest that the Emirates is evol... (2023)


Article

Sovereign-stealth funds. Welcome to a new era of petrodollar power

What are the hundreds of billions of oil riches being spent on? | Finance & economics (2023)


Article

Reserve Currencies: The power and the limits of the American dollar | The Economist

Heavy lies the crown: The greenback is still king. But those who want to evade it are finding ways to do so | Leaders (2023)


Article

How to fix the IMF International Monetary Fund | The Economist

The fund must get tough on obstructive creditors, but save them a seat at the table | Leaders (2023)


Article

OpenAI API example use case: Morgan Stanley GPT-4 to organize its vast knowledge base.

Morgan Stanley wealth management deploys GPT-4 to organize its vast knowledge base. (2023)


Article

Bill.com - International Payments: Send Payments from One Place | BILL

With BILL, you can send domestic and international payments, all from one place. Gain efficiency and accuracy with a streamlined process. Get start... (2023)


Article

The End of Silicon Valley (Bank) – Stratechery by Ben Thompson

Silicon Valley Bank bears responsibility for its demise, but it symbolizes a Silicon Valley reality that is very different from the myth — and the ... (2023)


Article

Linktree intros Payment Lock, paywalls creators can put around individual pieces of media | TechCrunch

Looking for more ways to grow its revenue, Linktree knows the way to creators' hearts and wallets: build tools to help them make money. (2022)


Article

The world won’t decarbonise fast enough unless renewables make real money | The Economist

Governments must accept that green power is pricey | Leaders (2023)


Article

Visa will not acquire Plaid after running into regulatory wall • TechCrunch

Visa and Plaid called off their agreement this afternoon, ending the consumer credit giant’s takeover of the data-focused fintech API startup. The ... (2021)


Article

Why Every Company Will Become a Fintech Company | a16z Future

Fintech startups are providing complex banking infrastructure "as a service." That means every company can now benefit from financial services. (2020)


Video

YouTube creator: How I Retired Early At 37 With $1.2 Million In California

If you ask Francis the best way to retire early, his answer is simple: don't.For years, the now 42-year-old went to great lengths to achieve FIRE, ... (2024)


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Using real estate investing, This attorney plans to retire by 42 and live virtually tax-free | FIRE Starters

Seattle attorney Sylvia Hall worked off six figures in student debt on her path to financial independence. Now, she plans to use real estate to pay... (2024)


Video

How London became the dirty money capital of the world | FT Film

Russian oligarchs and companies have been investing in London for two decades, encouraged by British politicians of all stripes, but critics say th... (2024)


Video

Why Citibank Branches Are Closing Around The World

After the company’s collapse during the 2008 recession, Citi’s stock has continuously struggled. Shares of the company saw more than a 30% drop ove... (2023)


Video

Citigroup and the 'financial supermarket' experiment | FT Film

The 1998 mega-merger between banking giant Citicorp and insurer Travelers Group created the world's biggest financial services company. But Citi's ... (2023)


Video

International finance: Why oligarchs choose London for their dirty money

Britain is one of the best places in the world to launder dirty money. Our new film tells you why—and asks whether that's likely to change.00:00 - ... (2023)


Video

The Open Source Movement in Fintech

Imagine that financial services could be built like Lego blocks — that developers could easily combine different pieces to discover hundreds of new... (2023)


Video

France secretly owns 14 countries, neocolonial Africa

France secretly owns 14 countries, neocolonial Africa (2023)


Video

Review: The Book That Changed My Financial Life - Morgan Housel's book 'The Psychology of Money”

In this episode of BOOK CLUB, we're talking about 14 money rules I follow to build and keep wealth which I learned from reading Morgan Housel's boo... (2023)


Video

Value Investing - Aswath Damodaran

Many investors, when asked to describe their investment philosophies, almost reflexively describe themselves as value investors. While some of that... (2020)


Video

How Robinhood Makes Money (Jan 2019)

Robinhood, an investing app valued at over $5 billion, says it's trying to "democratize America's financial system" by making investing accessible ... (2020)


Video

How Robinhood Really Makes Money (Dec 2018)

Want to join our free STOCKHUB discord chat? Here is the link https://discord.gg/MkquuN7 After yesterdays video on the Robinhood app 3% savings acc... (2020)


Video

How Private Equity Avoids Tax - WSJ

Financial News explains some of the main tactics used by experts in the private equity industry to minimise tax bills. Subscribe to the WSJ channel... (2019)


Video

How these penny-pinchers retired in their 30s — PBS

Eschewing consumer culture, Pete Adeney, also known as Mr. Money Mustache, practices an extreme frugality that allowed him to retire at age 30. Avo... (2018)


Video

A Conversation with Aileen Lee - Moderated by Geoff Ralston

YC Partner Geoff Ralston talks to Cowboy Ventures Founder Aileen Lee. Transcript and additional content can be found here: See Min 26 - for VC ... (2018)


Video

Startup Mechanics - Kirsty Nathoo - CS183F

Kirsty Nathoo is a Partner and the CFO at Y Combinator. She has worked with thousands of companies through all stages of their life; from incorpora... (2018)


Video

YC - Legal and Accounting Basics for Startups (Kirsty Nathoo, Carolynn Levy) - Lecture 18

How to Start a Startup Published on Nov 20, 2014 There's a lot that goes behind the scenes in running a startup. Getting the legal, finance (eq... (2018)


Video

How Cars Can Keep You Poor - Two Cents • PBS

Cars have become an integral part of American society. While it can feel that buying a new car is granting you new freedom, buying a new car is mor... (2018)


Video

Do I Need To Buy A House? | PBS

The importance of homeownership is still embedded in American culture, but actual homeownership has dropped to its lowest level since 1967. How sho... (2018)


Video

5 Ways People Are Dumb About Money - PBS

Not only do we as humans make financial mistakes, our mistakes are predictable! Here's the story of how we learned that we can predict our mistakes... (2018)


Video

How are credit scores calculated? - Two Cents • PBS

It's not just about payment history. Several things are taken into account when your credit score (or FICO score) is calculated. How have you h... (2018)


Video

Credit Reports - Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

LastWeekTonight Published on Apr 10, 2016 Credit reports play a surprisingly large role in our lives, but even more surprising is how often they ... (2018)


Video

Retirement Plans - Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

LastWeekTonight Published on Jun 12, 2016 Saving for retirement means navigating a potential minefield of high fees and bad advice. Billy Eichn... (2018)


Video

Debt Buyers - Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

LastWeekTonight Published on Jun 5, 2016 Companies that purchase debt cheaply then collect it aggressively are shockingly easy to start. We can... (2018)


Video

Payday loans - Predatory Lending: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

LastWeekTonight Published on Aug 10, 2014 Payday loans put a staggering amount of Americans in debt. They prey on the elderly and military serv... (2018)


Video

Drawing Conclusions: Is renting really a waste of money?

If you've ever wondered why some people think renting is better than owning, here's the explanation behind how that can be true. (2018)


Video

Trading Places (1983)

What happens when you combine the comic genius of Eddie Murphy with Dan Aykroyd and director John Landis? You get a timeless comedy classic laced w... (2018)


Video

Margin Call (movie) - Trailer

Margin Call Trailer. "You're selling something that you know has no value" ! FRESH Movie Trailers Published on Jul 26, 2011 (2018)


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Index Funds vs. Actively Managed Mutual Funds? - introduction (both sides) - Kiplinger

Should you invest in index funds or actively managed mutual funds? Kiplinger has the answer. (2018)


Video

Personal finance education in high school | Tanvee Patankar | TEDxYouth@LakeVilla

This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. When Tanvee was in 8th grade, she presented her idea to h... (2018)


Podcast

Did Hurricane Ian Bust Florida’s Housing Boom? - The Daily | Podcast on Spotify

Listen to this episode from The Daily on Spotify. Since Hurricane Ian devastated southwestern Florida last month, residents have filed a record num... (2022)


Podcast

The Student Debt Dilemma With Constantine Yannelis - Capitalisn't | Podcast on Spotify

Listen to this episode from Capitalisn't on Spotify. We’re taking a week off here at the end of the summer, but with Biden’s recent student loan an... (2022)


Podcast

Morgan Housel - The Psychology of Money - Standard Deviations with Dr. Daniel Crosby | Podcast on Spotify

Listen to this episode from Standard Deviations with Dr. Daniel Crosby on Spotify. Morgan Housel is one of the world's foremost leaders on all thin... (2022)


Podcast

Offshore Finance - What the ‘Pandora Papers’ Mean for Bitcoin - CoinDesk Podcast

Listen to this episode from CoinDesk Podcast Network on Spotify. A new 2.94 terabyte data leak doxes tens of thousands of offshore accounts of prom... (2021)


Podcast

Work V. Wealth: Capital Gains Tax, Explained | On Point

The capital gains tax. The Biden administration wants to raise it. But why is capital taxed less than work to begin with? (2021)


Podcast

Lighting the Stock Market on Fire - Vox Media | Podcast

Listen to this episode from Go For Broke on Spotify. Venture capitalists and tech entrepreneurs chasing big payouts helped inflate the dot-com ... (2020)


Podcast

20VC Podcast: SPACs. What Are They? How Do They Change The Venture Landscape?

Listen to this episode from The Twenty Minute VC: Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch on Spotify. Kevin Hartz is Co-Founder & Partner @ ... (2020)


Podcast

Banks Took Billions In Fees To Process Small Business Loans Amid Pandemic Crisis

Banks handling the government's $349 billion loan program for small businesses made more than $10 billion in fees — even as tens of thousands of sm... (2020)


Podcast

a16z Podcast: Direct Listings, Myths and Facts - Andreessen Horowitz

Another route to the public markets is the direct listing, recently reinvented for tech companies (with Spotify and Slack so far). This episode of ... (2019)


Podcast

a16z Podcast: Innovating in Bets – Andreessen Horowitz

Every organization, whether small or big, early or late stage — and every individual, whether for themselves or others — makes countless decisions ... (2019)


Podcast

a16z Podcast: Fintech for Startups and Incumbents – Andreessen Horowitz

In this episode — which originally aired as a video on YouTube — a16z general partner Alex Rampell (and former fintech entrepreneur as the CEO and ... (2019)


Podcast

The Benefits Of Taking Out Loans For College : NPR

Counselors and parents are hesitant for students to take out loans for college. But a new study shows that borrowing money can actually be helpful ... (2018)


Podcast

When Retirement Advice Goes Viral : Planet Money : NPR

So how much should you have saved for retirement? We wanted to know, so we asked the guy who invented the 401k. (2018)


Podcast

Berkshire Hathaway: (podcast) “Warren Buffett loses his touch” | The Economist on Spotify

Berkshire Hathaway has evolved into an acquisition engine of large industrial companies. Unfortunately, the returns look pedestrian (2018)


Podcast

Costs of the Olympics | Council on Foreign Relations

Andrew Zimbalist, the Robert A. Woods professor of economics at Smith College, joins CFR's James M. Lindsay to discuss the political and economic c... (2018)


Podcast

a16z Podcast: Market Shifts – Andreessen Horowitz

NASDAQ CEO Adena Friedman runs one of the world’s largest financial services companies, including the NASDAQ stock exchange that’s home to more tha... (2017)


Podcast

Apple’s monster investment arm

The Economist, 2017: “Should the world’s biggest company shrink its in-house finance division before it goes bananas? (2017)


Book

Your Money or Your Life

A fully revised edition of one of the most influential books ever written on personal finance with more than a million copies sold “The best book o... (2024)


Book

High Growth Handbook - by Elad Gil

Well known technology executive and angel investor Elad Gil has worked with high growth tech companies like Airbnb, Twitter, Google, Instacart, Coi... (2022)


Book

Seeking Wisdom: from Darwin to Munger

Peter Bevelin begins his fascinating book with Confucius' great wisdom: "A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it, is committing an... (2021)


Book

The Almanack of Naval Ravikant

Getting rich is not just about luck; happiness is not just a trait we are born with. These aspirations may seem out of reach, but building wealth a... (2021)


Book

Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World by Liaquat Ahamed

"This is the story of the Great Depression as told through the lives of the central bankers who tried and failed to deal with the crisis. As one, M... (2018)


Book

Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think

When asked simple questions about global trends—what percentage of the world’s population live in poverty; why the world’s population is increasing... (2018)


Website

Lemon Squeezy - Payments, tax & subscriptions for software companies

Sell digital products and SaaS software the easy peasy way with Lemon Squeezy. As your merchant of record, we handle the tax compliance burden so y... (2023)


Website

Ramp - Corporate Cards for Startups & New Businesses

Ramp's finance automation platform is a game-changer for startups with a corporate card solution. We provide more than your average business credit... (2023)


Website

Pilot.co - Hire Anywhere | Global payroll, benefits & compliance - pay contractors and employees worldwide

Easily onboard and pay contractors and employees worldwide, in one platform. Pilot is your all-in-one payroll and HR solution for your global team.... (2023)


Website

SaaS Calculator - metrics

This calculator will help you determine your startups' growth ceiling. It calculates the CAC and LTV metrics and the growth rates needed to reach t... (2022)


Website

Splitwise - sharing expenses with anyone

Splitwise is a free tool for friends and roommates to track bills and other shared expenses, so that everyone gets paid back. On the web, iPhone, a... (2022)


Website

Frontier - An advance market commitment (AMC) to accelerate carbon removal

Frontier is an advance market commitment to buy an initial $925M of permanent carbon removal between 2022 and 2030. It’s funded by Stripe, Alpha... (2022)


Website

Ledgy - cap table management

Ledgy makes your equity plans scalable, compliant in all countries, integrates with your existing systems and comes with enterprise-ready security ... (2021)


Website

Gusto - Payroll and benefits

Set your business up with modern payroll, benefits, and HR. Gusto also manages third party benefits (health, dental, vision) Our plans were b... (2021)


Website

Republic — Invest in Startups

On Republic, anyone can invest in startups. Become an investor in cutting-edge private companies with as little as $10 ✅ (2021)


Website

Florida Student Scholarship & Grant Programs

Office of Student Financial Assistance State Scholarship and Grant Programs Access to Better Learning a... (2019)


Website

TLDR Stock Options

An easy tool to ballpark the value of startup options. what are your options worth? a simple calculator... (2019)


Website

Compensation and Equity Calculator - Front

This is a tool we built at Front to improve the level of transparency we provide to candidates whom we end up making an offer to. You can read more... (2018)


Website

StartEngine: Equity Crowdfunding & Investment Opportunities

StartEngine is One of The Nation's Leading Equity Crowdfunding Platforms. StartEngine Allows Everyday People The Opportunity to Invest Online a... (2018)


Website

Crypto Trading 101 - full set of guides - CoinDesk

CoinDesk unpacks and explains Fibonacci retracements, a tool used to predict potential price support and resistance, for crypto traders. (2018)






Note

Poverty, and the cost of college

The California Sunday Magazine The College Try Liz Waite and Kersheral Jessup couldn’t afford a higher education, let alone rent. But they worked a... (2017)


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LP Survey Micro-VC

LP Survey for venture capital (2018)


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Currency Exchange Rates and Arbitrage: TBird international finance class 01

Published on May 30, 2009 Series of lectures from Brian Butler, given during fall 2008 session at Thunderbird Global MBA, Miami campus: This ... (2018)


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Currency Hedging: TBird International finance class

Published on May 30, 2009 Series of lectures from Brian Butler, given during fall 2008 session at Thunderbird Global MBA, Miami campus: This ... (2018)


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Currency Trading and Speculation: International finance class lecture

Series of lectures from Brian Butler, given during fall 2008 session at Thunderbird Global MBA, Miami campus: This lecture 02: learn to use Inte... (2018)


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Stanford CS 007-10: Personal Finance for Engineers / Additional Topics

These are the slides from the 10th session of the Stanford University class, CS 007 "Personal Finance for Engineers" This seminar covers student re... (2018)


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Stanford CS 007-09: Personal Finance for Engineers / Real Estate

These are the slides from the 9th session of the Stanford University class, CS 007 "Personal Finance for Engineers" This seminar covers real estate... (2018)


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Stanford CS 007-08: Personal Finance for Engineers / Financial Planning & Goals

These are the slides from the 8th session of the Stanford University class, CS 007 "Personal Finance for Engineers" This seminar covers financial p... (2018)


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Stanford CS 007-07: Personal Finance for Engineers / Good Investing is Boring

These are the slides from the 7th session of the Stanford University class, CS 007 "Personal Finance for Engineers" given on November 7, 2017. This... (2018)


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Stanford CS 007-06: Personal Finance for Engineers / All About Debt

These are the slides from the 6th session of the Stanford University class, CS 007 "Personal Finance for Engineers" given on October 31, 2017. This... (2018)


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Stanford CS 007-05: Personal Finance for Engineers / Know Your Worth

These are the slides from the 5th session of the Stanford University class, CS 007 "Personal Finance for Engineers" This seminar focuses on liquidi... (2018)


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Stanford CS 007-04: Personal Finance for Engineers / Spend Less Than You Make

These are the slides from the 4th session of the Stanford University class, CS 007 "Personal Finance for Engineers" given on October 17, 2017. This... (2018)


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Stanford CS 007-03: Personal Finance for Engineers / Getting Paid

These are the slides from the 3rd session of the Stanford University class, CS 007 "Personal Finance for Engineers" given on October 10, 2017. This... (2018)


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Stanford CS 007-02: Personal Finance for Engineers / Predictably Irrational

These are the slides from the 2nd session of the Stanford University class, CS 007 "Personal Finance for Engineers" given on October 3, 2017. This ... (2018)


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Stanford CS 007-01: Personal Finance for Engineers / Introduction

Published on Nov 1, 2017 These are the slides from the 1st session of the Stanford University class, CS 007 "Personal Finance for Engineers" giv... (2018)


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