Ross Perot

replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.” In 1985 he founded Next with 7 million dollars, but began failing and seeked help from billionaire Ross Perot who invested in the company. Next was later purchased by Apple and its technology was used to run the app store and iTunes. Steven later bought Pixar studios in 1986 which at that time was called the graphics group, for 10…

In 1992 and 1996, independent candidate Ross Perot was blamed by Republicans for swinging both elections to Bill Clinton, because Perot drew enough support in previously safe red states to allow Clinton to win them. In 2000, Green Party candidate Ralph Nader was blamed for Bush’s victory, because Nader was perceived as drawing votes from…

Globalized Portfolio Risks Globalized portfolios have been a way in which new growth opportunities can occur for investors. Globalized portfolio investing is a type of investment that is typically easily traded, can be less permanent, and often times does not represent a controlling stake in an enterprise (Levin Institute, 2012). Investments can be represented in stocks or bonds and typically take form in a type of interest payment or non-voting dividends. For a country that is on an uphill…

“Make America Great Again.” It is 2016, and Donald Trump is the Republican nominee for the US Presidency. He has the media in a frenzy with his preposterous statements. More jokes are made about Trump than all of the other presidential candidates combined. His plan for immigration and defense consist of building a wall on the Mexican border and banning all Muslims from the US. If Hillary Clinton had made these outrageous claims, she would not have made it more than a month into her campaign.…

Parties were destined to play a central role in American politics ever since the introduction of representative democracy in the United States after the establishment of the US constitution in 1788. The founding fathers of American agreed that direct democracy would be detrimental to US society. James Madison wrote in the the Federalist papers 10 that direct democracy would create the tyranny of the majority, whereby political decisions would favor the majority and disregard the interests of the…

The year is 1912, and the town is buzzing with gossip about the upcoming election. Former president Roosevelt is running again, and many are relieved, for he will reign in the chaos that Taft created in his wake. Theodore Roosevelt was the 26th president of the United States. He stepped down in 1909, after serving two full terms in office. Today, he is considered to be one of the greatest American presidents of all time. The decade of 1910 through 1919 are the prime years of Roosevelt, because…

Britain The British general elections are archetypal of what occurs in a majoritarian election. Minority parties are considerably less able to be influential in parliament - the analysis that will be done through the case study of Britain will be on the disproportionate underrepresentation of minority parties in British parliament. To understand why there is an underrepresentation of minority parties it is necessary to analyse the British electoral system, first past the post. The country is…

Mark Cuban was born in Pittsburgh in 1958. He lived with his father who worked at a car upholstery shop. His grandfather was very important in his upbringing. His grandfather, Morris Chobanisky, emigrated from Russia and provided for his family by selling merchandise out of his truck. Cuban learned a lot from his grandfather including persistence for making deals and a better life for himself. Cuban was an entrepreneur since Elementary school. At the age of 12, Cuban sold sets of garbage bags…

Electoral College is the mechanism of indirect election of public officials. For the election of the president and the vice-president of the electoral college is formed, consisting of 538 specially selected persons. This number from each state includes many people, how many congressmen and senators delegated by the state to the legislature, plus another three from the District of Columbia. To be elected, a candidate must obtain an absolute majority in the Electoral College (now is 270). If no…

experienced a massive upheaval and rejection of the “business as usual” politics that had been in place. The recession and growing budget surplus fueled this anger and the belief that divided party politics was to blame. This mistrust can be seen with Ross Perot’s presidential campaign and its relative success. Members of this system had built up an immunity to the election cycle, over 90% of incumbents were reelected showing the discrepancy of between the populace’s view on the system and the…