@shellenberger Can't be most prestigious and over the last 20 years have serious inaccuracies and partisan bias. Maybe 20 years ago but no longer. Let's hope for real change and non bias non partisan reporting now.
Congrats, Illinois, on winning the one title no state should ever want: highest combined state and local tax burden in the country.
A median household forks over $13,099 a year straight to Springfield and City Hall. That’s 16.5% of every dollar earned and $4,472 (52%) above the national average.
Yet as lawmakers scramble through budget talks, progressives demand even more tax hikes on billionaires and corporations. You revel in the spending spree while working Illinoisans get bled dry by brutal property taxes, punishing sales taxes, and every creative fee you invent.
Other states look like bargains by comparison.
Keep squeezing us dry. At this rate, you’ll have the highest taxes on an empty state.
Source: @illinoispolicy
KEN GRIFFIN ON HOW CITADEL ACQUIRED A $30 BILLION PORTFOLIO OVERNIGHT DURING THE 2007 CREDIT CRISIS
"On a Sunday morning in the summer of 2007, one of my partners received a call from one of the two heads of Sowood Asset Management. They had lost hundreds of millions of dollars in the blink of an eye. They needed to liquidate almost all their portfolio before the open of business on Monday."
"We assembled a 50 person team. We flew 8 people to Boston to facilitate due diligence."
"The senior point person on the deal from the other bank called me from what I'm sure was a beautiful house in Greenwich. He said: 'It's getting late, this isn't gonna get done tonight. I'm heading off to bed.'"
"I said: there will be nothing to pick up in the morning. We're going to get this done."
"He sort of laughed and hung up."
"6 a.m., before the opening of the markets, we bought that entire portfolio."
The ethos Griffin attributes the Citadel culture to, quoting Abraham Lincoln:
"Things may come to those who wait. But only those things left by those who hustle."
Gene Roy, fmr CPD Chief of Detectives, had a good idea: treat judges the way cops are treated after an officer-involved shooting. They ride a desk until a full investigation is completed. Cook Co. Judge John Lyke is a good place to start. @MorningAnswer
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