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Walt Alexander

Walt Alexander is the editor-in-chief of Men of Value. Learn more about his vision for the online magazine for American men with the American values—faith, family & freedom—in his Welcome from the Editor.

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published Aug 13, 2017 11:00:01 AM, by Heejin Kim (Bloomberg) — Seoul stocks may still be finding favor with investors seeking bargains globally, even as U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korea’s Kim Jong-un’s aggressive rhetoric drives the benchmark gauge down. Eight of top 10 gainers on the Kospi 200

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The Illinois Senate overrode Governor Bruce Rauner’s partial veto that would have cut millions of dollars for Chicago’s  cash-strapped school district, bringing the state closer to ending an impasse that has prevented aid from flowing to elementary and high schools. Rauner, a Republican, had issued an amendatory veto of a

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published Aug 10, 2017, 8:23:07 PM, by Divya Balji and Heejin Kim (Bloomberg) —South Korea’s stocks and currency fell after President Donald Trump warned North Korea that if it “does anything” to the U.S. or its allies “things will happen to them like they never thought possible.” The Kospi index

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Sports

As the college football season is just around the corner you can’t help but notice the preseason rankings. Ohio State once again makes its way to number 2 in the early rankings. However, it is important to realize great teams like Ohio State are not just loaded with great talent,

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published Aug 10, 2017, 3:58:59 PM, by Tim Loh (Bloomberg) —Contura Energy Inc., which inherited some of Alpha Natural Resources Inc.’s best coal mines during that company’s bankruptcy, has withdrawn a plan for an initial public offering amid lackluster demand from potential investors. Contura’s principal selling stockholders decided that the

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published Aug 10, 2017, 4:09:09 PM, by Sahil Kapur and Laura Litvan (Bloomberg) — President Donald Trump said Thursday he’s unhappy with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell over Congress’s failure to eliminate Obamacare, escalating a war of words with a fellow Republican who is key to advancing the president’s agenda.

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published Aug 9, 2017 4:33:43 PM, by Tim Loh (Bloomberg) —West Virginia Governor Jim Justice said Donald Trump is really interested in his plan to prop up Appalachian mining by giving federal money to power plants that burn the region’s coal. Justice, a coal and real estate mogul elected governor

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(Bloomberg) —Elon Musk calls Tesla’s mammoth battery factory in Nevada an alien mothership.  For the carmaker’s newest lenders, the plant might as well be in outer space. The billionaire coined that moniker for Tesla Inc.’s Gigafactory 1 as he waxed poetic about his company’s future on an Aug. 7 call

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published Aug 9, 2017 5:00:07 AM, by Alex Sherman, Scott Moritz and Gerry Smith (Bloomberg) — As The Bachelorette wraps up another season, a mating dance is developing in the telecommunications world. SoftBank is desperate to find a match for Sprint, the fourth-largest U.S. wireless company, of which it owns

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published Aug 8th 2017, 7:43 pm, by Bob Van Voris (Bloomberg) —The U.S. moved to drop fraud charges against Benjamin Wey, the founder of the private equity firm New York Global Group, after a judge threw out thousands of pages of documents she said were illegally seized by the FBI

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