Adrift in the Milkenverse — A Dispatch from the Influential Power of Ideas Global Conference
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By K.S. Bruce When the history of our times is written, one of the most protean figures outside of government will be Mike Milken. In the 1980s, he revolutionized finance as the father of the “junk bond,†launching good industries and bad corporate raiders alike, and as the highest paid financier in the world. He was sent to jail — perhaps unfairly. And then reformed himself to be a philanthropic leader in the war on cancer, the fight against the recent pandemic, the founder of the soon-to-open Museum of the American Dream and much more. Today, I am one of a sea of thousands of people milling …