Peter Lynch is an American businessman and stock investor. Lynch graduated from Boston College in 1965 and earned a Master of Business Administration from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1968.
Lynch worked at Fidelity Investments where named head of the then obscure Magellan Fund which had $18 million in assets. By the time Lynch resigned as a fund manager in 1990, the fund had grown to more than $14 billion in assets with more than 1,000 individual stock positions. From 1977 until 1990, the Magellan fund averaged a 29.2% return and as of 2003 had the best 20-year return of any mutual fund ever.
Though he continues to work part-time as vice chairman of Fidelity Management & Research Co., the investment adviser arm of F
Born in 1975, Thomas Pletzinger has won several awards for his writing, including fellowships and teaching positions at the University of Iowa, New York University, and Grinnell College. He lives in Berlin.
Sahra Wagenknecht is a prominent German politician, economist, author, and public intellectual, known for her distinctive blend of leftist economic policies and socially conservative views. Born in Jena, East Germany, she pursued studies in philosophy and literature at Humboldt University in Berlin and later earned a doctorate in economics. Her academic background has significantly influenced her political ideology and public discourse. Wagenknecht began her political career with the Socialist Unity Party (SED) and continued her involvement through its successor, the Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS). She was a member of the PDS's leadership and its Communist Platform, advocating for traditional Marxist principles. In 2007, following the
