What Al Gore has been up to . . .
“Earlier this month the
Washington Post's Carol Leonnig reported that the former vice president's
wealth is today estimated at $100 million, up from less than $2 million when he
left government service on a salary of $181,400. How did he make this kind of money?
It wasn't his share of the Nobel Peace Prize. Nor was it the book and movie
proceeds from "An Inconvenient Truth."
Instead, as Ms. Leonnig reports,
"Fourteen green-tech firms in which Gore invested received or directly
benefited from more than $2.5 billion in loans, grants and tax breaks, part of
President Obama's historic push to seed a U.S. renewable-energy industry with
public money."
That's nice work if you can get
it—at least if you're on the investment-management end of the deal.“
Bret
Stephens
Wall
Street Journal
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