Sunday, March 24, 2013

Koch Update: Daycare Facility, David H. Koch Plaza, Newspapers, and New Wild Bill Koch Interview

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So while I have been away it seems as if the Koch brothers have been making the headlines. One I forgot last year   was   David Koch mad...
Friday, March 22, 2013

The Case For A Simpler Tax Code

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After studying the personal income tax code for a couple of years now I believe that the U.S. tax code is insanely inefficient, gives be...
Sunday, March 17, 2013

The Case For More Nurses and Physician Assistants

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With much people still talking about healthcare reform I thought there was one area thing people were not talking about: nurse practitio...
Friday, March 8, 2013

Forbes 400: Charles and David Koch & Historical Net Worth 1984-2013

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(This graph shows net worth over time with net worth of each of the Koch brothers)  Recently, Forbes came out with the richest people ...
Saturday, February 2, 2013

Keeping up With the Sarofim Family: Divorce, Drugs, and Lawsuits (Part II)

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I covered Fayez Sarofim as an billionaire investor in this prior post . Fayez first married Luisa in 1962 (only 4 years after he started...
Wednesday, January 30, 2013

Fayez Sarofim: Houston’s Billionaire Wizard Investor (Part I)

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One day when I was in the medical center in Houston and I looked outside and noticed a building that was called the Fayez Sarofim Resear...
Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Koch and Empire Grew Together (1994 Wichita Eagle Article)

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Source: Wichita Eagle  This past week I stumbled upon a really good article from June 26-27, 1994 about Charles Koch and Koch Industr...
Tuesday, December 11, 2012

Koch Industries: Challenge Process

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Here is a video I dug up from YouTube from Koch Industries that discusses the challenge process that occurs at the company. Charles Koch i...
Monday, December 10, 2012

John Allison on Financial Crisis and Market Purity

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John Allison recently spoke to AEI on December 6, 2012. I have a lot of respect for John Allison who actually was a CEO of a bank during t...
Friday, December 7, 2012

Case for 24/7 Stock Market

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So recently I have been thinking about markets and how they operate. One thing that seems strange is why the stock market is not open 24...