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Authored by Glenn Greenwald, originally posted at The Intercept,

Last August, we introduced readers to the hedge fund that we dubbed the "puppe master behind the US presidential election", which also happened to be the most successful hedge fund in history : Setauket-based Renaissance Technologies (a recent analysis by LCH found that Ray Dalio's Bridgewater, with $45 billion in absolute profits since inception, was the most successful but the ranking ignored Renaissance, which has return $10 billion more).

Shortly after taking center stage at CPAC, Steve Bannon once again unleashed on the media, quickly calling the press the "opposition party" as he did in his infamous NYT interview, during his conversation with Reince Priebus.

Via The Daily Bell

 

Top Republicans Propose Carbon Tax Plan To Stop Climate Change ... There’s a new climate change prevention plan in town, and unbelievably, it’s coming from some rather senior Republicans, the de facto party of science denial. Two former Secretaries of State – James Baker III and George Shultz – along with former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson Jr., met with Vice President Mike Pence, Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, Ivanka Trump and Gary Cohn, director of the National Economic Council this week in Washington D.C. -IFL Science

First it was Ken Griffin, then Bill Ackman, now it's David Einhorn's turn.

Perhaps eager for a complete "change of scenery" after years of moribund returns, some of America's most prominent hedge fund managers are taking the metaphorical knife to their personal lives, and wives.