(p. B5) Venture capitalists, whose money provides fuel to technology start-ups, last year invested the lowest amount in such companies since 1997, according to a report from PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association released on Friday.
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In 2009, venture capitalists invested [...]
According to Politico:
The 77-year-old Democrat underwent scheduled laparoscopic surgery to remove his gallbladder at Bethesda Naval Hospital last Thursday but then, after his release, sought care at the Virginia Hospital Center over the weekend.
The congressman’s spokesman declined to say Tuesday what led him to be hospitalized again. But responding to questions [...]
Writes F.A. Hayek in 1981:
Dear Professor Simon,I have never before written a fan letter to a professional colleague, but to discover that you have in your Economics of Population Growth provided the empirical evidence for what with me is the result of a life-time of theoretical speculation, is [...]
In his Wall Street Journal obituary in honour of Julian Simon, Ben Wattenberg wrote in 1998:
His keystone work was "The Ultimate Resource," published in 1981 and updated in 1996 as "The Ultimate Resource 2" (Princeton University Press). Its central point is clear: Supplies of natural resources are [...]
A great independent mind, American scholar Julian Simon, age 65, died unexpectedly on February 8, 1998.
”Fortunately for this planet,” Mr. Simon said in response to the Global 2000 Report, ”these gloomy assertions about resources and environment are baseless.”
Mr. Simon’s sunny view of the future [...]
While America is practicing a global military imperialism China is pursuing a spectacular global economic imperialism. Ironically, America's militarism is being financed indirectly by China buying up America's debt. Where China and other countries are ascendant economically the US is a failed industrial state, having devolved from a production economy [...]
