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Geoffrey Norman

Al Gore

Easy for Him to Say

4:14 PM, Jun 18, 2013 • By GEOFFREY NORMAN

Al Gore believes, as Johan Carlstrom at Bloomberg writes, that it is time for some reforming of capitalism.  Mr. Gore has done all right under the old regime having recently:

... sold his Current TV network to Al Jazeera, the cable channel funded in part by oil-rich Qatar ... with a price tag of about $500 million. 

And, then, there were those Apple options which he exercised:

... at $7.48 a share, on 59,000 shares ... that he’d been granted for serving on the Cupertino, California-based company’s board since 2003. On paper, it was about a $30 million payday based on the company’s share price on the day he claimed the options. 

Making Mr. Gore rich enough to enjoy his role as self-appointed scold to the world.

 

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