Monthly Archives: August 2002

Options and Threats

Posted on August 30, 2002 by Ron Unz - 553 Words

Last week, I distributed a column reviewing the financial and accounting tricks that have played such a major role in recently erasing some seven trillion dollars of value from our capital markets. This piece generated a great deal of response, … Continue reading →

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Taking Stock

Posted on August 25, 2002 by Ron Unz - 874 Words

“Taking Stock” by Ron Unz The Los Angeles Times, Sunday, August 25th, 2002 PALO ALTO—Regulators looking at how stock options are accounted for have seen cause for concern. I see opportunity. It’s true that when actual expenses don’t appear on an … Continue reading →

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Initiatives have broad-based support

Posted on August 24, 2002 by Ron Unz - 312 Words

Initiatives have broad-based support by Ron Unz Denver Post (Letters), Sunday, August 25, 2002 Re ‘The Millionaire’s Club; Why leave ballot initiatives to the rich?’ Aug. 18 Perspective. I must respond to Daniel A. Smith’s rather ignorant piece criticizing our … Continue reading →

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Question 2 and Amendment 31

Posted on August 18, 2002 by Ron Unz - 953 Words

One of the more underreported aspects of America’s nationwide system of state ballot initiatives is their tremendous diversity across our different states and regions.

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Options and Perpetual Motion

Posted on August 15, 2002 by Ron Unz - 296 Words

Options and Perpetual Motion by Ron Unz Wall Street Journal (Letters), Thursday, August 15, 2002 In his Aug. 8 editorial page commentary, “The Real Value of Options,” Harvey Golub, the former CEO of American Express, argued that the issuance of stock options … Continue reading →

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Wealth and Stupidity

Posted on August 13, 2002 by Ron Unz - 3409 Words

Just over twenty years ago, at the dawn of the 1980s, a conservative theorist named George Gilder published a million-copy international best-seller entitled Wealth and Poverty, providing an intellectual case for the superiority of free markets and entrepreneurial capitalism over … Continue reading →

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A National Problem and a Colorado Solution?

Posted on August 7, 2002 by Ron Unz - 1317 Words

This Monday, we watched as the Colorado Secretary of State accepted our petitions containing the signatures of some 140,000 registered voters in support of our initiative to replace bilingual education with English programs. With just 80,000 valid signatures being necessary, … Continue reading →

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Harvard’s Gary Orfield and Academic Fraud

Posted on August 2, 2002 by Ron Unz - 2095 Words

In any society or intellectual movement there always exist those realities, often embarrassing ones, that are widely acknowledged in private but remain unspoken in public. Since these are exactly the sort of truths that seldom appear in published books or … Continue reading →

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