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Billionaire Philanthropist, Conservative Icon David Koch Dies
Friday, August 23, 2019 - 10:57am | 405Billionaire philanthropist, industrialist and conservative icon David Koch has died at 79. His death Thursday followed a period of declining health and was announced by his brother Charles. David had battled prostate cancer for two decades. The Koch brothers put hundreds of millions of...
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What Would The Koch Brothers Do With Time, People?
Thursday, November 16, 2017 - 4:53pm | 364Time Inc (NYSE: TIME) traded up 27 percent Thursday after Charles and David Koch were revealed as the backers of Meredith Corporation (NYSE: MDP)’s takeover bid. The Koch brothers agreed to back Meredith’s purchase with more than $500 million, according to the New York Times ...
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The Top Libertarians in Business Today
Friday, February 22, 2013 - 4:00pm | 1080Although the Libertarian Party never seems to climb out of the single digits in the polls, libertarians have a surprising influence in the business world and are well represented in a variety of sectors. Believe it or not, there's much more to libertarians besides Ayn Rand and Ron Paul....
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T. Boone Pickens Blames the Koch Brothers For Lack of American Energy Plan
Monday, May 7, 2012 - 1:09pm | 449In an interview with Yahoo Finance's Aaron Task at last week's Milken Institute Global Conference in Los Angeles, famed energy investor T. Boone Pickens said that special interest groups do not want a comprehensive American energy plan. Pickens is a leading proponent for transitioning America's...
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Bill Gates Tops the Forbes 400
Wednesday, September 21, 2011 - 12:45pm | 219The Giving Pledge co-founder is once again making headlines for being the richest man in the world. Bill Gates, the man behind that little company that makes Windows – what was its name again? Oh, right, it's Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) – has earned the number-one spot in the Forbes 400. Gates' net...
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Bloomberg Game Changers Profiling Charles And David Koch Tonight
Tuesday, June 7, 2011 - 12:57pm | 277The richest brothers in the world own a company that most Americans have never heard of…yet their activism has altered U.S. politics and their family feuds rival those on "Dynasty." Tonight at 9pm/ET, “Bloomberg Game Changers” profiles billionaires Charles and David Koch, who quietly built a...
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Tea Party Funding is Coming from Top Air Polluting, Koch Brothers - New Yorker Says.
Friday, August 27, 2010 - 11:45am | 553An article in this month’s The New Yorker entitled, Covert Operations - The billionaire brothers who are waging a war against Obama, by Jane Mayer, reveals that much of the seed money for the Tea Party came from the billionaire, libertarian, right wing, Koch brothers. Who are the Koch brothers?...