Michael milken will celebrate his 6oth birthday on July 4th. The former "junk-bond king" is still going strong, having seen off prostate cancer, and remains as controversial as ever. The debate over whether Mr Milken deserved his jail term for manipulating the high-yield bond market he largely created rumbles on nearly 20 years later, most recently during the Enron trial, where Mr Milken's genius was championed by none other than Kenneth Lay (as the saying goes, with friends like that...). Jeremy Siegel turned 60 last November. The Wharton business school economist, whose book "Stocks for the Long Run" was the bulls' bible during the last bubble, is going strong too, trim and fit, with his mind as lively as ever-despite being called "demented" at last weekend's Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting by one of the firm's bosses, Charlie Munger. ("He's a very nice guy," retorted the other boss, Warren Buffett.)
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