The Builder of the World’s Richest Hedge Fund
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on July 19th, 2011 4:31 am by HL
The Builder of the World’s Richest Hedge Fund
John Cassidy, New Yorker
Ray Dalio, the sixty-one-year-old founder of Bridgewater Associates, the world’s biggest hedge fund, is tall and somewhat gaunt, with an expressive, lined face, gray-blue eyes, and longish gray hair that he parts on the left side. When I met him earlier this year at his office, on the outskirts of Westport, Connecticut, he was wearing an open-necked blue shirt, gray corduroy pants, and black leather boots. He looked a bit like an aging member of a British progressive-rock group. After a few pleasantries, he grabbed a thick briefing book and shepherded me into a large conference…
Jake Tapper Exposes the Obama Spinners
Hugh Hewitt, DC Examiner
Bravo, Jake Tapper.Finally from a member of the increasingly supine White House press corps came a question that demanded of the president specificity as to his alleged willingness to “upset his base.”
Blinded by “Good Things”
Thomas Sowell, Investor’s Business Daily
Life has many good things. The problem is that most of these good things can be gotten only by sacrificing other good things. We all recognize this in our daily lives. It is only in politics that this simple, common sense fact is routinely ignored. In politics, there are not simply good things but some special Good Things — with a capital G and capital T — which are considered always better to have more of.Many of the things advocated by environmental extremists, for example, are things that most of us might think of as good things. But, in politics, they become Good Things whose…
