By releasing only a minimal number of shares, Perot was able to limit his “irrecoverable loss” to $2,100,000—the $6.50 price gain multiplied by the 325,000 shares. Since he kept 9,327,000 shares for himself, and 10,160 for his wife, the loss was scarcely noticed. The shares he...
Ross Perot. Self: This Week. Perot was born on June 27, 1930, in Texarkana, Texas, to an impoverished family. He was the son of Lula May (Ray), a secretary, and Gabriel Ross Perot, who worked in cotton contracts. He started working various odd jobs at ag
Why I miss Ross Perot: Mitt Romney and Barack Obama ads are full of outright liesDid you know that Mitt Romney is responsible for the death of a steel worker's wife? Or that President Obama gutted the work requirement for welfare? Do you remember President Obama's famous "Apology Tour" ...
aProtectionists and immigrant-bashers garner plenty of media attention, yet voters have handed over relatively little power to the apostles of protectionism over the past three decades or so. Just ask free-trade opponents Ross Perot, Pat Buchanan, and Tom Tancredo, each of whom failed in a Pr...
American businessman Ross Perot ran for the U.S. presidency as an independent candidate twice, in 1992 and 1996. He was one of the most successful third-party candidates in American history.
Perot muses, “but on Wall Street everybody seems to talk to everybody else.”‘ Since computer-software companies were much in vogue, a host of investment bankers began streaming into Dallas. Most of them were impressed with what they saw, and by the time the procession ended, Perot had...
Still, Brown continued to challenge Clinton, who had not amassed the requisite number of delegates to secure the Democratic nomination until June 2, when he defeated Brown in California and several other states. Ross PerotRoss Perot at the second U.S. presidential debate of 1992.(more) With ...