Another Path to a Billion
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The other secret of the world's richest can make you rich, too.
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The recent philanthropic moves by Warren E. Buffett raise the question of exactly what the other billionaires have in mind for their money.
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What do you do when you've got billions of dollars lying around and don't know how to spend them?
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&quot;WE DO not know where this journey will end, yet we know this: human beings are headed into the cosmos.&quot; That&#39;s the dream of President George W. Bush, who in January announced an ambitious venture that foresees an American once again planting footprints
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Private-equity billionairesâthe new Masters of the Universeâoften pay far lower rates than the rest of us. But Washington is trying to change that. Get ready for a fight.
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Mike Arrington is doing a great job of laying out the options for Yahoo wrt Microsoft's offer to buy them out. He's written two pieces that helped put it together for me. Mike clearly has great sources in the investment banking community and among potential buyers of Yahoo, and is actively talking with them. He's got a business lawyer's mind and, as you know I'm sure, he's spent the last few years immersed in web applications.  Bottom-line: Yahoo's three choices are: 1. Tough it out alone. 2. Sell advertising rights to Google. 3. Accept Microsoft's offer.  Mike argues that option 1 would result in shareholder lawsuits and in the end would get Yahoo nowhere because they'd end up selling to Microsoft eventually. Option 2 would enable them to pay a major cash dividend to their shareholders, making up for the lost windfall coming from Microsoft's offer. Options 2 and 3 have the risk of being rejected by government regulators.  Now, as a member of Yahoo's developer community, and generally a respector of Yahoo (is that a word) -- I say take the deal. I don't think Yahoo has ever had leadership that has been up to navigating the treacherous waters of tech industry economics and politics. At least with the Microsoft acquisition they would get one -- Ray Ozzie. He's a guy you can sit across the table from and plot something out and he can deliver. I've had many good meetings with Yahoo people, but rarely have they resulted in action. From my own selfish point of view, Microsoft owning Yahoo might mean that Ray makes more trips to the Bay Area (figuratively) and when he sits down, we can talk about new open interfaces and developer programs for Yahoo properties. I've read most of the commentary on the Yahoo deal, and the other piece that made an impression was Mark Cuban's. He says that Yahoo should accept the Microsoft deal because it would give them the breathing room they need re Wall Street. He argues that the market has always allowed Microsoft to sink resources into developing markets, and that's exactly what Yahoo needs to become the organization that it has been trying to be. Instead, the market treats Yahoo as a comp to Google, but Yahoo doesn't have the economics of Google, so that's, long-term, a losing battle.  There's one more reason I think Yahoo should sell to Microsoft -- the fatigue of the people. The company has been wobbly too long. If they don't take the Microsoft offer it's going to be a long wobbly decline and the shareholders will be right to be angry. Here's their chance to get out, it's time, so just do it.
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Will a million be enough to fund your retirement?
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This is going to be the year the world learns to live with a cheaper dollar. How well it does that may have a profound effect on prospects for continued world growth.
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A Fool continues his look into the guts of the major investment banks.
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Having millions doesn't mean you don't lose sleep. A look at what weighs on the wealthy.
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One billion dollars is no longer enough to get into America's most exclusive club.
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How the millionaire next door got there.
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The money is coming. Profit from where it will go.
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Also: Stephen Hawking's next goal: Space travel. Read these stories and more from around the Web on News.com Extra.
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A. $2.1 trillion B. $920 billion C. $230 billion D. $100 billion A. $2.1 trillion is not correct. While more than 5 billion people live in the developing world, the total aid given to help their development last year was considerably less than $2.1 trillion.
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The next ultimate growth stock is out there. David Gardner explains how to find it.
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Is the multibillion-dollar cash cow vulnerable at last to alternatives? Google, Yahoo and IBM seem to think so.