William Ackman: Everything You Need to Know About Finance and Investing in Under an Hour

William Ackman: Everything You Need to Know About Finance and Investing in Under an Hour.WILLIAM ACKMAN, Activist Investor and Hedge-Fund ManagerWe all want to be financially stable and enjoy a well-funded retirement, and we don't want to throw out our hard earned money on poor investments. But most of us don't know the first thing about finance and investing. Acclaimed value investor William Ackman teaches you what it takes to finance and grow a successful business and how to make sound investments that will get you to a cash-comfy retirement.The Floating UniversityOriginally released September 2011.Additional Lectures: Michio Kaku: The Universe in a Nutshellhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NbBjN...Joel Cohen: An Introduction to Demography (Malthus Miffed: Are People the Problem?)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vr44C...Steven Pinker: Linguistics as a Window to Understanding the Brain http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-B_ON...Leon Botstein: Art Now (Aesthetics Across Music, Painting, Architecture, Movies, and More.)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6F-sH...Tamar Gendler: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Politics and Economicshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mm8asJ...Nicholas Christakis: The Sociological Science Behind Social Networks and Social Influencehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wadBvD...Paul Bloom: The Psychology of Everything: What Compassion, Racism, and Sex tell us about Human Naturehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=328wX2...Saul Levmore: Monopolies as an Introduction to Economicshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FK2qHy...Lawrence Summers: Decoding the DNA of Education in Search of Actual Knowledgehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6SY6N...Douglas Melton: Is Biomedical Research Really Close to Curing Anything?http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y95hT-...