Sublime

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Despite the last-minute passage of the Social Security bill, liberal antipathy to Johnson was as strong as ever—stronger, in fact: 1956 had, after all, been the year of the natural gas fight and the exemption of highway workers from the David-Bacon Act, and new revelations about Johnson’s relationship with Brown & Root. Under a headline that was an

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One of our favorite CEF managers is Scott Page. He’s been with Eaton Vance, one of the oldest investment management firms in the US, since 1989. He has conducted the Eaton Vance Floating-Rate Income Trust (EFT, not to be confused with ETF, an exchange-traded fund) brilliantly since inception—through rising and falling rate cycles, through rising

Jefferson Curl

According to Ivar, by 1932 he had 225 subsidiaries. He had operations in every civilized country except Russia, and he manufactured three-quarters of the world’s matches. Ivar had secured match monopolies in twenty-four countries. During seven years, he had loaned almost 300 million dollars to European governments. Ivar’s loans had helped borrower