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☆ They were on the run from the Taliban, abandoned by their US allies — until a Wall Street banker decided to smuggle them out of Afghanistan
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-23 | by ( Nina Burleigh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +29 min

His daughter worked for the US-backed government in Kabul, prosecuting the Taliban and their followers for acts of violence against women. The war in Afghanistan effectively began on 9/11, with the attacks on Wall Street and the Pentagon. Last summer, when the Taliban overran Kabul, Calbos was in Greece visiting his father. "I see kind of a mirror image to mine in his history and his family," Calbos says. With the clock ticking on the family's temporary visas, Calbos scrambled to arrange a flight out of Pakistan.

Twitter, a social network with hundreds of millions of users, “was over a decade behind industry security standards,” he later testified. His concerns, raised privately at first and later in a whistleblower disclosure that became public, would upend one of the world’s most influential social networks and raise new questions about its pending acquisition by the world’s richest man, Elon Musk. A big part of the issue, Zatko told a Senate panel, was that software and e-commerce companies “want to ignore problems as long as possible. When he was hired to join Twitter, Zatko framed the move in terms of the public good. “This wasn’t my first choice,” he previously told CNN.

☆ Handicapping whether the stock market is at a turning point after Thursday's upside reversal
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-15 | by ( Michael Santoli | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +8 min

We can at least run through what we know about this market and how market cycles tend to unfold more generally. Fewer individual S & P 500 stocks made a new 52-week low than in mid-June even as the index itself undercut the June low, a modest positive glimmer. The prior extreme lows on this chart were near noteworthy market lows, if not always right at them. The Stock Trader's Almanac notes that of the 23 S & P 500 bear markets since World War II, seven ended in October. The S & P 500 has failed in four tries of since late August even to get above the short-term 20-day moving average, most recently on Friday.

☆ Premarket stocks: How to read big bank earnings
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-13 | by ( Nicole Goodkind | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

Beyond disappointing headline figures, Wall Street analysts are focusing on three important factors: loan growth, capital adequacy, and the economic outlook. Loan growth: The rate at which businesses borrow money from big banks doesn’t just tell us about the health of a financial institution itself. But Wall Street estimates show that loan growth is expected to decelerate in Q4 and into next year. Growth of Individual loans will likely decline, showing that Americans are beginning to feel the pinch of rising interest rates. Capital adequacy: Expect banks to take questions about how much money they have on hand.

☆ What’s in Our Queue? ‘Partner Track’ and More
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-06 | by ( Deborah Leiderman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

�� Enjoying the creatures of Central ParkDeborah Leiderman �� Enjoying the creatures of Central ParkWhat’s in Our Queue? ‘Partner Track’ and MoreVanessa Clifton/NetflixI am a senior staff editor on The New York Times’s Culture desk. And I have a knack for trivia. I’m enjoying fall and can’t wait to watch the leaves turn. Here are five things I have been watching, reading and listening to recently →

☆ 'Hocus Pocus 2' review: Bette Midler, Kathy Najimy and Sarah Jessica Parker conjure the same old brew on Disney+
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-29 | by ( Review Brian Lowry | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

“Hocus Pocus 2” should benefit from that dynamic, delivering a breezy sequel – 29 years later – that should provide go-down-easy Halloween viewing for families in the less-demanding confines of Disney+. Then again, this kind of movie hardly needs to reinvent the cauldron, representing more of a cut-and-paste job. While the not-too-scary hijinks are acceptable for kids, those scenes will likely deliver more of a kick for parents who caught the movie way back when, helping turn it into a Halloween favorite. By that measure, “Hocus Pocus 2” finds what amounts to the streaming sweet spot, feeling just big enough, but not too big. “Hocus Pocus 2” premieres September 30 on Disney+.

☆ 'Punked': DeSantis keeps White House, Delaware and media guessing on migrant flight plans
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-21 | by ( Marc Caputo | Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms Lauren-Egan-Circle-Byline-Template.Jpg | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +9 min

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre accused DeSantis of not wanting a workable, bipartisan solution on immigration. “Obviously,” DeSantis said, “it’s sad that Martha’s Vineyard people deported them the next day. Ray Ewing / Vineyard Gazette via APThe migrants who were flown to Martha’s Vineyard weren’t deported; they were moved to a military base near Cape Cod. “If you say you’re a sanctuary state, then don’t complain. Share in the pain — whether you’re president, God or anyone else.”Marc Caputo reported from Florida and Lauren Egan reported from Delaware.

☆ The night the Lord of the Skies got away
▼ + stars: | 2022-07-22 | by ( Noah Hurowitz | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +38 min

It was May 1985, and Ramirez had only been with the Border Patrol for two and a half years. But he also knew that at the end of that road, just before the international port of entry, was a Border Patrol station. The Lord of the SkiesWithin a decade of that traffic stop, Amado would be the most significant drug trafficker in Mexico. It's the border," Ford told me recently when I reached him by phone. Ford and Amado didn't make a deal that night, but Ford said they agreed to "something tentative."

☆ He was my high school journalism teacher. Then I investigated his relationships with teenage girls.
▼ + stars: | 2022-05-16 | by ( Matt Drange | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +40 min

It was a hot July day and the classroom at Rosemead High School should have been empty. (Christopher Vu for Insider) Show less Rosemead High School sits just east of Los Angeles in the San Gabriel Valley. Burgess as an upperclassman at Rosemead High School with the former teacher Hugh Zegers, center, and classmates. The author interviewing Rod Marinelli, a Rosemead High School alum who was then coaching the Detroit Lions, for the Rosemead student newspaper, the Panther's Tale. The author and a classmate, Amy Julia Harris, beside their journalism teacher Burgess at graduation night in June 2007.

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But when I started reading "Millionaire Teacher" by Andrew Hallam, I had a lightbulb moment: I was living beyond my means. Once I realized I could have a comfortable retirement if I just started saving whatever I could, I changed my ways. Advertisement'Millionaire Teacher' showed me I was living way beyond my meansIn the first chapter of "Millionaire Teacher," Hallam describes an experience he had tutoring the son of a wealthy family. With a little help from "Millionaire Teacher," though, I was able to change my ways. In short, my thinking was completely backward, and thankfully, reading the first chapter of "Millionaire Teacher" finally snapped me out of it.

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☆ Warren Buffett wants young people to know: Ignoring this is like 'leaving a car out in hailstorms'
▼ + stars: | 2019-04-12 | by ( Gillian Zoe Segal | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

As with most things in life, Buffett says there's just one catch: It's the only car you're ever going to get...in your entire life. "If there's the least little bit of rust, you're going to get that fixed immediately so it doesn't spread — because you know it has to last you as long as you live." In other words, the way you treat your car should be no different than the way you treat your body. "You have only one mind and one body for the rest of your life," Buffett says. "If you aren't taking care of them when you're young, it's like leaving that car out in hailstorms and letting rust eat away at it.

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