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Taxes and where to live

I’ve said it before: if rich people really hate taxes so much, why are they all living in Kenilworth and Lake Forest? The University of Illlinois at Urbana-Champaign recently released data on the destinations of their engineering and computer science graduates. Of those graduating in 2012-2013, 34.5% moved to the Chicago area, 14.4% moved to… [Read More]

Cameroon: Your Madness, Not Mine

Next up in the African series is Cameroon. It’s a former French colony that became independent in 1960 and has had a relatively stable government since then. It’s not perfect, hardly. Per-Capital GDP is $2,400 – better than many of its neighbors in West Africa, but hardly great. This is a book of short stories published in 1999 by the… [Read More]

Hedge funds, fiduciary responsibility, and Yeshiva University

Most institutions of higher education have been hurt three ways by the financial crisis: endowment returns are down; donors have less money to give; and families need more financial assistance to cover tuition. Just about every college and university has been affected. But one college has had the misfortune of having financial fraud and poor… [Read More]

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