https://freerepublic.com/tag/gazillionaires/ en-us Fri, 8 Jun 2018 14:31:34 GMT Focus Forum 15 https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3661549/posts Melinda Gates, a silly woman with an enormously wealthy husband, has decided to reinvent herself as a venture capitalist. With a difference. With her husband’s billions, Mrs. Gates announced her intention to venture into funding start-up companies that are likely to fail. In an interview with Fortune Magazine, Gates “bashed ‘white guys,'” and vowed to favor women and people of color in her investment choices. Using pigment and gender as criteria in allocating her abundant resources is hardly a prudent investment strategy. But Mrs. Gates can afford to lose money. Her husband is Bill Gates, a lily-white billionaire (with lots... wnd.com https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3661549/posts#comment Fri, 8 Jun 2018 14:31:34 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3258078/posts Oregon governor John Kitzhaber may have announced that he will resign, but a sweeping FBI investigation of him and his fiancée, Cylvia Hayes, is only getting started. While the story involves personal failings, the green-energy lobbying scandal that brought them down has national lessons and implications. If oil companies and pharmaceutical concerns shouldn’t exercise undue influence in government, the same is true for green energy — which can’t yet survive in the marketplace without giant subsidies or special tax favors. nationalreview.com https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3258078/posts#comment Mon, 16 Feb 2015 16:53:31 GMT