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Asks: How Would You Invest $100,000?  March 12, 2012, 1:44 PM
Welcome to an ongoing feature on the Floating University blog,
FU Asks, where we open up the academic debate on our e-learning
platform to the Big Think community.   This week we're featuring
a discussion prompt from William Ackman, Activist Investor and
CEO of Pershing Square Capital:  Assume you just won $100,000 in
the lottery.  How would you invest it?﻿ What would you do if you
were responsible for investing the endowment of your college
or university?﻿ How would this differ from how you might invest
the money you won in the lottery? Why?﻿﻿﻿﻿  Here's Ackman
offering a crash course on investment and compound interest,
from his Floating University lecture on investing:  Answer the
above prompt and have your response featured on the Floating
University e-learnin