Bill Gross' HP Monitor
name: label: maker
content: Hewlett-Packard Company
notes: label: Description
content: This HP monitor was part of Bill Gross’s Bloomberg workstation at Pacific Investment Management (PIMCO). Gross served as one of the founders of PIMCO when it was incorporated in 1971, and went on to manage some of the largest hedge funds in the United States as PIMCO grew to manage over 1 trillion dollars in assets by 2014. He is most famous for predicting the housing bubble of 2008. He got out of mortgage backed securities and wisely invested in government bonds.
label: Description
content: Financial managers process massive amounts of information to make their financial decisions. They often consult many electronic sources including proprietary systems like Bloomberg terminals. The monitor was accessioned along with Gross’s Bloomberg keyboard seen in object 2014.0012.02 and two BeanieBaby’s seen in 2014.0012.08 & .09.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Work and Industry: Production and Manufacturing
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content: American Enterprise
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of PIMCO Investments LLC through William H. Gross
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2014.0012.01
label: catalog number
content: 2014.0012.01
label: accession number
content: 2014.0012
label: serial number
content: CNK64110TV
objectType: label: Object Name
content: monitor
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plaster (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: black (overall color)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 16 1/4 in x 14 1/2 in x 8 1/2 in; 41.275 cm x 36.83 cm x 21.59 cm