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William Ackman: Everything You Need to Know About Finance and Investing in Under an Hour | Big Think
A Big Think talk in which hedge-fund manager William Ackman goes through the basics of finance and investing in under an hour. It is pitched as a crash course on the most important concepts.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN recommends it to beginners as a quick, clear overview of finance and investing fundamentals.
This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.
Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Big Think
- Topic
- finance and investing basics
- Format
- lecture
- Level
- intro
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 3
- HN mentions in dataset
- 3
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2015–2020
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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William Ackman: Everything You Need to Know About Finance and Investing in Under an Hour [VIDEO] — An excellent crash course for the most critical concepts.
amix on Hacker News · 2020-07
In Ask HN: What are some good resources to learn business administration/finance?tl;dr Know what you're buying, know your risk threshold, hold it as long as you can, invest frequently. It's going to sound like a stale and naive quip but buy low and sell high. I look for deals. Sometimes that's an IPO with a nice …
kleer001 on Hacker News · 2015-08
In Ask HN: Do you day trade in stock market? What are your investing strategies?A great follow up in the "New York billionaires explain basics of the economy" curriculum: William Ackman: Everything You Need to Know About Finance and Investing in Under an Hour | Big Think [0] Covers the money making, Wall Street side [0] [VIDEO]
ipnon on Hacker News · 2020-04
In Ask HN: What are you reading to make sense of the economy?
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