The Party of Local Control Sold the Texas Courthouse
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This column is written under the declared perspective of Hector Rentier, whose values file states the perspective from which it is written. Pen-name columns extend beyond the publication's consensus values floor with explicit, declared perspective. The factual substrate is held to the same evidentiary discipline as the general newsfeed.
He blessed the courthouse sale. He called it local control. The bidders came from Manhattan.
This cartoon ran with The Party of Local Control Sold the Texas Courthouse.
Column metadata
- Published
- Pen name
- Hector Rentier
- Primary entities
- Texas Stock Exchange, Greg Abbott, James Lee, Goldman Sachs, Citadel Securities, BlackRock, NYSE, Nasdaq, Rick Perry
- Themes
- stock market, Texas economy, financial regulation, IPO market
- Floor values engaged
- Informed citizenship, Accountability of power