by Jane Richey | Apr 8, 2013 | Agenda 21
The divestment campaign began last October, when a student group, called the Brown Divest Coal Campaign, asked the university to stop investing in coal. “We believe that our university should not be profiting from an industry as dangerous and outdated as coal,...
by Jane Richey | Aug 8, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Free Markets, Politics
Louis M. Bacon is the head of Moore Capital Management, one of the largest and most influential hedge funds in the world. Last week, he announced that he was returning one quarter of his largest fund, about $2 billion, to his investors. The reason he gave to The New...
by Jane Richey | Jun 16, 2012 | Politics
Since launching his Open Society Foundations in 1984, George Soros has donated more than $8 billion to charities around the world. But instead of gaining a mighty reputation for his philanthropy, or his investment prowess, Soros is reviled abroad and criticized here...