Buyouts

Four Ways to Get Out of Your Lease: Part 1

Jim Thomas | Posted 03.25.2012

Read More: Leases, Landlord, Exit Planning, Buyouts, Rent, Business Lease, Renting, Contract Negotiations, Contracts, Denver News
Jim Thomas

That your business is suffering, or rent is lower across the street, is generally of no concern to your landlord. If your business is viable, any change in your lease has to present some upside to both landlord and lender.

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Private Equity: Where Did All The Easy Money Go?

bloomberg.com | Jason Kelly and Cristina Alesci | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Private Equity Returns, Kkr, Private Equity Fund, Buyouts, Blackstone, Private Equity, Lbos, Business News

Aug. 26 (Bloomberg) -- A year after the financial crisis subsided, the $2.5 trillion private-equity industry is finding the easy money may be gone. M...

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The New Poor: How Employers Are Eliminating Some Jobs Forever

nytimes.com | CATHERINE RAMPELL | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Layoffs, Job Market, The New Poor, Autoworkers, Unemployment, Unemployment Rate, Buyouts, Unemployment Crisis, Jobs, Job Crisis, Business News

For the last two years, the weak economy has provided an opportunity for employers to do what they would have done anyway: dismiss millions of people ...

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Ford: Buyouts, Early Retirement Offered To All 41,000 Of Its U.S. Hourly Workers

AP | TOM KRISHER | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ford, Ford Bailout, Buyouts, Mark Truby, United Auto Workers, Early Retirement, Business News

DETROIT — Ford Motor Co. has offered buyout or retirement incentive packages to all of its 41,000 U.S. hourly workers as it tries to further red...

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Caught In a Machine that Grinds Us Up

Dave Johnson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Buyouts, Private Equity, Seiu, Business News
Dave Johnson

This is the buyout game and it is part of the story of what has happened to our economy, our jobs, our communities and our country.

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New York Times To Offer Buyouts

Business Insider | Jay Yarow|Sep. 25, 2009, 8:18 AM |4 | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: New York Times, Newspapers, New York Times Buyouts, Buyouts, Media News

The New York Times (NYT) will be offering buyouts to some of its employees as a way to save money, the Newspaper Guild announced last night. Details a...

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Best Buy Buyouts: 500 Employees Agree To Leave

Star Tribune | Jackie Crosby | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Best Buy Buyouts, Buyouts, Best Buy, Business News

In yet another sign of the dwindling retail and job landscape, one in eight employees at Best Buy Co. Incorporated's headquarters in Richfield -- abou...

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Jobless rate rises to 4-year high of 5.7 percent

AP | JEANNINE AVERSA | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Economy, Recession, Jobs, Layoffs, Buyouts, Consumer Spending, Labor Department, Business News

WASHINGTON — Stores, factories and other businesses large and small showed workers the door last month, sending unemployment to its highest rate...

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Report: Clear Channel Deal Collapsing

AP | MICHELLE ROBERTS | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Media Companies, Clear Channel Deal, Clear Channel Communications, Buyouts, Buyout Firms, Clear Clannel Deal Collapsing, Private Equity Firms, Clear Channel, Business News

SAN ANTONIO — Shares of Clear Channel Communications Inc. plummeted in late trading Tuesday, following a report that the media company's private...

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$25 Bil Buyout Of Sallie Mae In Jeopardy

AP | Marcy Gordon | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Sallie Mae, Buyouts, J.C Flowers & Co, Business News

The planned $25 billion buyout of student lender Sallie Mae was thrown into jeopardy Wednesday after the investors said terms of the deal were no long...

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