Archive for Richard A. Cooper
The Young Entrepreneur’s Guide To Starting and Running a Business by Steve Mariotti
Times Business • 1996 • 322 pages • $15.00 Richard A. Cooper makes his living as an export-import manager while exploring ideas as a freelance writer. Steve Mariotti was mugged twice—once by the hoodlums who beat him while jogging on the Lower East Side of Manhattan and then by the realization that these street punks [...]
1Sep1997 | Richard A. Cooper | 0 comments | ContinuedInvestment Biker
Jim Rogers autographed my copy of Investment Biker with the words, “Life is short; Ride hard and far.” Rogers closes his highly readable account of the round-the-world motorcycle trip he and girlfriend Tabitha Estabrook accomplished with more words of wisdom: “More important, I’ve also learned that if you’ve got a dream, you have to try [...]
1Jul1995 | Richard A. Cooper | 0 comments | ContinuedArgentina at the Crossroads
Mr. Cooper is an export/import manager in New York. He visited Argentina in November 1988. Statism has promised much to the Argentine people. But over the past 50 years, it has brought violence, corruption, unemployment, soaring inflation, and bitter disappointment. There is, however, a vibrant and growing Argentine movement that offers another choice—a classical liberal/libertarian [...]
1Dec1989 | Richard A. Cooper | 1 comment | Continued-
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