Posted on 12/15/2007 6:13:01 PM PST by COUNTrecount
WHAT SHE’S GOT
Cash and Bonds: $30.1 million
Life Insurance: $140,000
Retirement Funds: $33,000
Alternative Investments: $248,000
Houses: $5.9 million
Mortgages: $1.5 million
WORTH: $39.9 MILLION
2006 Income: $12.1 million
WHERE SHE GOT IT
When Bill Clinton first ran for President in 1992, Hillary provided most of the couple’s income working for the Rose law firm in Little Rock; he earned only $35,000 a year as governor of Arkansas.
Although she takes in $165,200 a year as a senator, these days Bill is breadwinner-in-chief. His presidential pension is $201,000 a year, and he grabbed a $12 million advance for his 2001 memoir, “My Life.” (Her “Living History” won an advance of $8 million and $7 million in royalties.)
But it’s been Bill’s great gift for gab that has really feathered the Clintons’ nest. He earned an astounding $41 million speaking to groups and corporations in the first six years since he left office. Standard fee: $150,000. The fact that he may be married to the next President can only burnish his star power.
WHERE IT GOES
Until May 2007, the Clintons had cash and a blind trust. When Hillary launched her campaign, however, she (and Mitt Romney) had to “unblind” the trust to comply with Executive Branch rules, so the contents became public. The Clintons’ money was spread among 190 mostly large-cap stocks from A (Abbott Labs) to Y (Yahoo) with a sprinkling of New York State and U.S. bonds.
Jason Mirsky of RiskMetrics assessed the portfolio as aggressive but not foolish. A Black Monday event, he says, would have lost the Clintons about 16.5 percent of their portfolio’s value.
Anxious about potential conflicts, the Clintons sold everything but the U.S. bonds. Allan Roth of Wealth Logic estimates the move cost $500,000 to $1.8 million in taxes. “They have done their fair share to shrink the budget deficit,” he says.
HOW SHE COULD DO BETTER
The Clintons’ cash hoard leaves them exposed to inflation, says Roth. Federal and state taxes put them in the 40 percent bracket, so the after-tax net on a 5 percent yield would be only 3 percent.
The Clintons should invest half their money in the stock market, using broad index funds to avoid conflicts of interest. If they set up a new blind trust, they should confine themselves to 30 to 50 securities.
“With the old portfolio,” says Mirsky, “they had a lot of fragmented positions that didn’t do much but add to their transaction costs.”
Wasn't Vince Foster in charge of that???
I really don’t give a sh!t what this b!tch and her traitor husband are worth. After all, Bill never misses an opportunity to tell us he’s rich. Isn’t it funny though that “an evil, selfish” insurance company paid out the settlement to Paula Jones? Guess she should have waited until the bastard was out of office...
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Erosion?
I’ll have to heck that out -
YOUR tax dollars at work!! I checked off the “no” box for “Tax Dollars For Hillary” on my last tax return, didn’t you?
Hang on, I’ll be right back, someone’s scratching on my bathroom window...
Lol, well her face was bad to begin with. That original picture was not sharp and clear.
YOUR tax dollars at work!! I checked off the “no” box for “Tax Dollars For Hillary” on my last tax return, didn’t you?
This is a woman who turned $1,000 into 100,000 overnight when she was in Ark. How can you ask where these shrewd investors got their money?
Ben, they get the money from us, us being 50% of the citizen’s of the US that pay to hear/support the rhetoric they provide.
Scares the living shit out of me that so many take the bait.
I’m not fooling now.
Shrillary: “Hey, Bill, don’t you think that ‘public service’ is a lot better than cattle futures??”
Bill: [musing to himself] “Shrillary, baby, if you knew how much p*ssy I’m scoring these days, you’d know that all the money is just a part of the good life now!”
BTW, Gore is estimated to be worth around 80-100 million, and this is before his carbon credit company (read:SCAM) kicks in for his enrichment with our tax dollars.
Well, for her heiness, she needs all the $$$ worth she can muster, because she’s totally worthless as a member of Congress. Human race value has not been calculated as yet.
The job at the Rose Law firm...was basically a “help-Bill” effort because his state job wasn’t paying that much. The first real paychecks in her life....for real work...came as a senator...which you have to admit...is a real legitimate occupation. As for how you acquire $34 million....book deals help, and wealthy Chinese contacts help as well.
Cost or $$$ doesn’t always equal value, lol.
Meh, if she’s melting down, then please move her melting left cankle (which is stepping on Baton Rouge BTW) and ass off of Louisiana and put the composted material at its’ point of origen...which is well North of the South...where It came from.
Merry Christmas to you and all yours.
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Unfortunately it’s south of I-O-WAA
I cannot remake the USA map!
LOL, no one wants her to melt on THEM!! Funny.
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Yup!
Suddenly nobody wants her
Disgusting that “the gift of gab” is worth anything!
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