"Performance Equity, an advisory firm that manages pension investments for GM and its affiliates, is one of many traditional private equity investors who are reducing their investments with private equity groups in order to lower the risk of their portfolios."
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President Obama: [I]f you’ve been successful, you didn’t get there on your own. . . . I’m always struck by people who think, well, it must be because I was just so smart. . . . If you’ve got a business—you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen."(Read more...)
"The first thing you need to know is that America wasn’t always like this. When John F. Kennedy was elected president, the top 0.01 percent was only about a quarter as rich compared with the typical family as it is now — and members of that class paid much higher taxes than they do today. Yet somehow we managed to have...(Read more...)
What is morally prohibited under Islamic law becomes obligatory if it furthers the cause of holy war. "As a possibly convenient way of rationalizing what one desires while still being able to feel 'pure,' anything and everything that is otherwise banned becomes permissible. All that supposedly matters is one's intentio...(Read more...)
More propaganda from people who believe their political philosophy is morally superior to the opposition. Note that "selfishness" is in the title, but neither it nor "selfish" is in the body. I guess they expect readers to believe it is morally wrong w/o question. Using Amazon's "Look Inside" feature, I found t...(Read more...)
The Declaration And A Revolution Today by Edward Hudgins July 3, 2012 - Americans are again celebrating Independence Day in traditional fashion, enjoying themselves with family and friends, picnics and fireworks. But this joy is tempered by America’s sad political and economic situation. With elections in ...(Read more...)
This is what passes for "research" for the left. What it illustrates is something far different than what they claim. They "rig the game" then observe the players behave badly, then blame the effect on the accumulation of wealth. Totally bogus. What they have demonstrated is a rigged game destroys any sense of fair...(Read more...)
Say you've spent years studying the real economy, with all its messiness and uncertainty. Then you stumble into a world where there's a record of everything everyone has ever done. ...(Read more...)
