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Warren Buffett. AP Images Wall Street's top firms often hire from a specific college class. Steve Hanke of Johns Hopkins teaches students how to value companies using a Buffett-style approach. They build cash-flow models, run simulations, and analyze financial reports and executive pay. Wall Street's top firms jostle to hire from a specific college class . The professor's emphasis on teaching his students how to value companies like Warren Buffett helps explain why. Steve Hanke has taught "Applied Economics & Finance" at Johns Hopkins for more than 20 years. He handpicks the students for his class, and they virtually all score job offers from top-flight banks and hedge funds once they graduate. Hanke has been a Johns Hopkins professor and currency and commodity trader for half a century. The veteran economist is a former adviser to President Ronald Reagan, and was president of Toronto Trust Argentina in Buenos Aires in 1995, when it was the world...

Bre Tiesi on "Selling Sunset." Netflix 2023 was a great year for television overall, but a few shows dragged on a bit too long.  "The Bachelor," for instance, could totally be replaced by ABC's new hit spinoff "The Golden Bachelor." Here are five shows that we think should have been canceled this year. While 2023 gave us plenty of amazing television ("Silo," "Beef," and "The Bear," just to name a few), there were also several shows that simply overstayed their welcome this year. "Selling Sunset," for example, has long ceased to be entertaining, especially after controversial favorite Christine Quinn left the show ahead of the sixth season. And even though we love ABC's new spinoff "The Golden Bachelor," we think that the original "Bachelor" series could be canceled in favor of the new iteration. (Give us more old people looking for love, please!) Here are five shows that shou...

Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling in "Barbie." Dale Robinette/Warner Bros. Greta Gerwig's " Barbie ," starring Margot Robbie , is full of Easter eggs and references. The movie includes many nods to Mattel's various Barbie dolls released over the years.  Here are all the best details you might have missed in the film, which is now available to stream on Max. The opening scene is an homage to Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey." Top: Girls playing with dolls in "Barbie." Bottom: Monkeys in the opening scene of "2001: A Space Odyssey." Warner Bros.; MGM The opening scene of "Barbie" is mostly what was shown in the first teaser trailer for the movie, depicting the dawn of Barbie. A group of girls are seen playing with boring dolls until they meet Stereotypical Barbie (Margot Robbie) standing above them in all her glory. This is a reference to the opening of "2001: A Space Odyssey," which d...