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Firing Line with Margaret Hoover Premieres Nationwide on PBS Stations Beginning Tonight, Friday, June 22, ...

Longview News-Journal 23 Jun 2018

ENT TVN. NPT ... at 8.30 p.m ... Following each ... anti-poverty programs and the American conservative movement as he ... Inc., The Robertson Foundation, Marlene Ricketts, The Asness Family ... as well as for the educational market, digital distribution and ... Homefront�(PBS), as well as the limited series Invisible Killers ... produces and presents such acclaimed PBS series as Nature, Great ... include Get the Math, Oh Noah! And Cyberchase as well as Mission US,....

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Financial Series Consuelo Mack WealthTrack Launches Season 15 Nationwide on Public Television Beginning June 22 ...

The Philadelphia Tribune 19 Jun 2018

Thought Leader Cliff Asness ... Asness, founder, managing principal and chief investment officer of ... USA Today praised Mack's interview style as ... produces and presents such acclaimed PBS series as Nature, Great ... include Get the Math, Oh Noah! and Cyberchase as well as Mission US,....

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Man Group and AQR try to take aim at private equity industry

Business Day Online 14 Jun 2018

The popularity of private equity investments has prompted asset managers such as Man Group and AQR to devise strategies that aim to replicate PE returns but at a much lower cost to investors ... “There’s a mix of excitement and cynicism,” Mr Asness said in an interview ... And be more diversified, so if any one fails you’re hurt but you’re not hurt that much,” Mr Asness said....

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KIM: NHL coaches and investors often focus on wrong ‘risk’

Indianapolis Business Journal 08 Jun 2018

This year’s NHL Playoffs have a scintillating storyline as my adopted Vegas Golden Knights, an expansion team playing its inaugural season, have defied both history and the odds to make it to the Stanley Cup Finals against the Washington Capitals ... “First, coaches are not actually rewarded for winning,” the authors write “They are rewarded for being perceived as good coaches....

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Cliff Asness: Free Markets, Investing And Fighting Warren Buffett

Bitcoin Warrior 06 Jun 2018

An interview with billionaire quantitative investor and co-founder of AQR Capital Management, Cliff Asness. In this interview, Cliff discusses learning about and his views on free markets and quantitative investing. Cliff also talks about fighting Warren Buffett on Twitter and critiquing Obama. Get The Full Warren Buffett Series in PDF Get the entire 10-part series ... ....

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Is America Ready for Kinder, Gentler Political TV?

Politico 01 Jun 2018

On June 2, PBS is scheduled to begin broadcasting its reboot of the show, with Margaret Hoover as host ... When “The McLaughlin Group” premiered in 1982, it had seemed like a cartoonish version of “Firing Line,” not the kind of thing to gain traction as a real public affairs show ... Cliff Asness, another billionaire, is a libertarian and was an outspoken opponent of Barack Obama....

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Six muddles about share buy-backs

The Economist 31 May 2018

Now there is a new candidate ... As the sums rise, so does the controversy ... But among investors such hostility is seen as a “derangement syndrome”, to quote Cliff Asness, the boss of AQR,... ....

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We’ve Lost Sight of the Plot in the Immigration Debate

National Review 30 May 2018

As the immigration debate hit another low last week, I received the news that my favorite immigrant died ... To get there, he signed on as a hand on a United Nations refugee ship ... He soon transferred to the University of Chicago, where he worked as a milkman while pursuing a joint bachelor’s-master’s degree under Nobel Prize–winning economist Milton Friedman ... So he returned to his vocation as a milkman....

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The Right’s Generation Gap

National Review 16 May 2018

When Howard Dean, as pure an example of a baby-boomer liberal as there is, seemed poised in 2003 to win his party’s presidential nomination, he recalled what it was like in 1969, the year he turned 21 (and I was born) ... As historian Steven Hayward notes in his book The Age of Reagan, in the first six months of 1969, “there were nearly a hundred bombings, attempted bombings, or acts of arson on college campuses.”....

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Top GOP donors close wallets over tax law

CNN 14 May 2018

(CNN)As national Republicans scramble their resources for a high-stakes midterm election year, some of the party's biggest and most reliable donors have quietly withheld their support for Senate and House Republican groups out of frustration with the new tax law, CNN has learned ... Collectively, they have bristled at what they view as favored treatment for corporations under the law....

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Concentrated Power Leads to Political Backlash

National Review 11 May 2018

As a result, on any number of issues — most conspicuously abortion policy — the Court became more important than the presidency or Congress ... Barack Obama was elected as a backlash against George W ... Since the beginning of the 20th century, progressives have repeatedly tried to invest as much power as possible in whatever branch of government they controlled at the moment....

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There’s No Rush for Giuliani to Get His Facts Straight

National Review 09 May 2018

The former mayor of New York City made his debut on Sean Hannity’s Fox News show last Wednesday as a “cleaner” of sorts, like The Wolf from Pulp Fiction, determined to tidy up the whole mess in a matter of weeks ... As a new member of President Trump’s legal team, Giuliani turned out to be more of a mix between Sonny Corleone and Inspector Clouseau, vowing to go to the mattresses but making the mess worse instead....

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Cultural-Appropriation Outrage over a Prom Dress

National Review 04 May 2018

I have deep reservations about Chinese culture as well ... China also practices ethnic discrimination that would be instantly recognizable as a kind of Jim Crow or apartheid if the majority Han Chinese were white and minorities such as the Uighurs were black ... — that began as quirky artifacts of English and Dutch culture ... Chinese social media and cultural commentators celebrated Daum’s decision as a compliment....

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