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Michael Milken

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American investor

United StatesBorn 1946 · age 80
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Michael Robert Milken is an American financier. S. securities laws. S. income at that time. With a net worth of $6 billion as of 2022, he is among the richest people in the world.

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People are the scarce resource. It's not buildings, it's not printing presses, and it's not factories that are the scarce resource.

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1991Ig Nobel Prize

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Michael Robert Milken is an American financier. He is known for his role in the development of the market for high-yield bonds, which led to his reputation as the "Junk Bond King", and his conviction and sentence following a guilty plea on felony charges for violating U.S. securities laws. Milken's compensation while head of the high-yield bond department at Drexel Burnham Lambert in the late 1980s exceeded $1 billion over a four-year period, a record for U.S. income at that time. With a net worth of $6 billion as of 2022, he is among the richest people in the world.

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Born 1946 · age 80
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