IBM began life as Computing-Tabulating-RecordingCo. (C-T-R), a rag-tag amalgamationof pseudo-information companiesassembled in an acquisitionbyWall Streetfinancier Charles Flint in 1911.
Warg and the site's co-founders - Fredrik Neij and Peter Sunde, as well financier Carl Lundstroem - were convicted by a Swedish court of encouraging copyright violations in 2009.
Reagan-era economic growth, and gold standard proponents such as financier and Gold Commissioner Lewis Lehrman and author and former Kemp presidential co-chair Jeffrey Bell (with both of whom this writer is professionally associated) have been notable in their advocacy for a 21st century gold standard, as has such a respected figure as Steve Forbes.