Repealing the Frontiers of Ignorance

Wednesday, May 30, 2012

Koch Brothers Wealth: Historical Net Worth 1984-2012

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Being the researcher that I am I was curious to know what the Koch brother’s net worth has been historically. Through some painstaking r...
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Tuesday, May 22, 2012

War on Drugs and Increasing Prison Population

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From this chart it is clear that the since President Nixon launched the war on drugs it has been an utter failure. Not only are we lock...

CEO Compensation in Options 1965-2011

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The following chart shows the relationship between CEO-worker compensation in the form of options (H/T Greg Mankiw). Usually executive...
Monday, May 21, 2012

Mark Holden General Counsel for Koch Industries on MSNBC

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General counsel for Koch Industries Mark Holden recently went on MSNBC and talked to Martin Bashir and was asked questions by Bashir a...
Monday, May 14, 2012

Billionaire hedge fund manager at 38 retires

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Recently, John Arnold announced that he would close his hedge fund Centauras Energy and return money to investors. Arnold is pretty yo...
Friday, May 11, 2012

David Koch, Robert Kraft, and Marc Jacobs

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I thought this story was pretty interesting. Apparently David Koch and Robert Kraft were at the Met Ball and someone overheard Koch a...
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Saturday, May 5, 2012

David Koch Donates $35 Million to Smithsonian's Natural History

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The other day David Koch gave $35 million to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History in order to build a dinosaur hall. T...
Tuesday, May 1, 2012

Hostess vs. Unions

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As I mentioned in my previous post Hostess is now going through the bankruptcy process. Recently Hostess is in talks with the Teamste...
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Monday, April 30, 2012

Apple Sidestepping Taxes and Pursuing Excellence in Tax Avoidance

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.   In this story from the New York Times it is reported (or really whined about) how little Apple pays in taxes. The story starts o...
Saturday, April 28, 2012

FDA: Stifling New Cures

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In this report by Avik Roy of the Manhattan Institute finds that the cost of Phase II trials is increasing the costs of drugs. Roy ...
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