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23 Aug 2008, 12:58 pm
Proposition 5, bankrolled initially by George Soros (he was one of the funders of the 2000 Proposition 36 Drug Treatment Proposition that passed at the same time as Proposition 21, the Proposition that greatly increased Three Strikes) (but for only $1 - he's cheaper on these things than Nicholas, it seems), is a decent change in the law. [read post]
28 Feb 2023, 6:59 am
They included nonprofits funded by leftwing billionaire George Soros and another operated by a former Hillary Clinton and Obama advisor. [read post]
6 Apr 2011, 7:17 am
George Soros” – WSJ.com and Alabama Supreme Court Justice Tom Parker at “Elect Judges So They Can Be Held Accountable” and finally, Professor Brian T. [read post]
19 Jan 2008, 1:18 am
Legislators in Austin are minimizing the rights of children and crime victims and allying themselves with liberals such as the ACLU and George Soros to decriminalize drug crimes and retroactively review previous criminal cases.There are no specifics or documentation, given, of course, because the allegation is absurd and false. [read post]
5 Sep 2009, 4:33 pm
Past guests include: Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda; Former Harvard University president Lawrence Summers; professors Joseph Stiglitz (Nobel laureate), Jeffrey Sachs, and Alan Blinder; CEOs Michael Eisner, Steve Forbes, Bill Gates, Steve Ballmer, Jack Welch, Jeffrey Immelt, Larry Ellison, Scott McNealy; investor Jim Rogers, George Soros, Warren Buffett and numerous Japanese business and political leaders. **** Other related hedge fund law articles: Hedge Fund Investors Asking for… [read post]
25 Jul 2017, 1:14 pm
He won this fight notwithstanding a united Democratic Party pushing for it, along with President Obama and several influential billionaires (the otherwise-estimable Koch brothers and the not-so-estimable leftist George Soros).Sessions knows he has work to do, and aims to do it.In the end, I believe the President may come to see that, despite his unhappiness, the Attorney General is serving him in a unique and uniquely helpful way: In an Administration that has been… [read post]
23 Jan 2007, 1:52 am
But another big part of that advantage comes from their ability to use their wealth to bypass government control by hiring better lawyers, or even creating a completely independent media outlet (think George Soros).Logically, then, the more regulation that exists, the harder it will be for the non-wealthy to get their views out, run for office, oachieveve their political ends.So why are liberals (and too many conservatives) so intent on pushing such regulation? [read post]
14 Jul 2016, 1:14 pm
Meanwhile, robberies with a gun are up 24 percent over the same period, from 650 to 805.When armed robbery is up 24% in seven months in the nation's capital, you can see why the pro-criminal lobby is desperate to bullrush Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell into giving floor time to the Be-Nice-To-Drug-Traffickers Act (the SRCA) being touted by George Soros and his allies.Time is not on the side of the SRCA. [read post]
2 Feb 2009, 8:23 pm
Leave aside the earlier paragraph where the author points out, in describing how the dotcom bubble was a clear refutation of the ECMH, that George Soros lost a ton of money by trying to beat the market but getting the timing wrong. [read post]
16 Jun 2009, 12:06 pm
As Paul Krugman points out in a recent post, the Administration's new "skin in the game" requirement does little to address the temptation to recycle funds into increasingly risky investments, an effect which may contribute to systemic risk not only at the banks themselves but also in the underlying markets that are inflated by this injection of credit.One way to address these issues is to simply outlaw a particular instrument, as George Soros has… [read post]
9 Mar 2023, 2:08 pm
For instance, ERIC was founded by the liberal Pew Charitable Trusts, potentially with funding that originated from leftist billionaire George Soros’ Open Society Foundations (OSF) network. [read post]
14 Dec 2009, 6:55 am
" And last Thursday, billionaire George Soros proposed using IMF Special Drawing Rights to leverage over $100bn for mitigation and adaptation in developing countries, with the investments eventually to be recouped by the IMF. [read post]
1 May 2012, 8:12 pm
The defender of absolute property rights will have to face painful hypotheticals such as the following: What if redistributing a tiny fraction of George Soros or Rupert Murdoch’s fortune is the only way to save 1000 innocent people from starvation through no fault of their own? [read post]
2 Jun 2009, 8:00 am
According to the Center for Media and Democracy, “[t]he collection of influential characters who now work, have worked, or have invested in the group . . . include John Major, former British Prime Minister; Fidel Ramos, former Philippines President; Park Tae Joon, former South Korean Prime Minister; Saudi Prince Al-Walid; Colin Powell, former Secretary of State; James Baker III, former Secretary of State; Caspar Weinberger, former Defense Secretary; Richard Darman, former White House… [read post]
22 Mar 2018, 8:04 pm
Second, there was a ten million dollar fund that has been established by George Soros and Irene Diamond to promote gun control. [read post]
29 Jan 2012, 5:31 pm
Fix this thing… Lisa has had to overcome more than any of us… more than you George Soros. [read post]
4 Jul 2010, 2:43 pm
It is a little hard to sort out — George Soros and Warren Buffett do not have these credentials, and yet hedge funds such as Soros’s make pure macro bets with huge amounts of money — should they be listened to, despite their lack of academic credentials? [read post]
12 Jun 2023, 2:50 am
Alexander Soros, a younger son of philanthropist and right-wing target George Soros, will take control of the $25 billion empire. [read post]
12 Aug 2011, 2:02 pm
George Soros. [read post]
20 Jul 2020, 7:00 am
The Netherlands Antilles was the domicile for George Soros’s hedge funds as well as for corporate entities used widely by non-Americans to hold US real estate and other assets.Most importantly, however, the Antilles was the home of the subsidiary finance corporations that were used by virtually every major American corporation as part of a structure to access the cheap foreign investment capital of the Eurobond markets.This arrangement benefited both the Antilles and… [read post]
