Private Equity

Obama vs. The Robber Baron: The Gloves Must Come Off

Sanjay Sanghoee | Posted 05.31.2012

Read More: Leveraged Buyout, Bain Capital, Private Equity, President Obama, Mitt Romney, Elections 2012, Robber Barons, Wall Street Reform, Banking Reform, Capitalism, Teddy Roosevelt, Republicans, JPMorgan Chase, Facebook, Politics News

The business model that Romney oversaw at Bain, especially the Leveraged Buyout, was questionable at best and destructive at worst, and he cannot pretend that the dangers of Bain's investment methods were unknown to him.

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Mitt Romney, Private Equity and Apples and Oranges

Carol Roth | Posted 05.28.2012

Read More: Mitt Romney, Leadership, Gop, Election, President Obama, Private Equity, Bain Capital, Stakeholders, Politics News

Three and a half years ago, Barack Obama was granted a position of leadership by the citizens of the United States. We are his stakeholders and should judge him on the job that he was elected to do as well.

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The Private Equity Debate: That '70s Show

Robert Teitelman | Posted 05.27.2012

Read More: Gordon Gekko, Robert Teitelman, Equity Markets, Private Equity, That 70s Show, The Nation, Business News

Private equity may not have been the prime mover, and at times it spawned uncertainty and job losses (or worse); but it also opened opportunities, not just for buyout mavens like Romney, but for owners and managers and, in some cases, workers of middle-market companies.

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USA Inc.: Profit-Motive vs. People-Motive

Rep. Stacey Abrams | Posted 05.25.2012

Read More: Mitt Romney Bain Capital, Cory Booker Bain Capital, Cory Booker Obama, Bain Capital, Obama Bain Capital Attacks, Private Equity, Job Creation, Obama Bain Capital, Politics News

As the firestorm dies down about Bain Capital, the core of the debate must remain. What ethic will guide our next president? Will he have a profit-motive or a people-motive?

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Private Equity Firms: What Are They Good For?

Jared Bernstein | Posted 05.25.2012

Read More: Mitt Romney, Romney Private Equity, Bain Capital, Private Equity Funds, Private Equity, Private Equity Firms, Business News

Private equity firms are not net job creators and they sure don't need the crazily huge distortionary tax break that they get.

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Mitt Romney Talking Points: A Private Equity Insider Offers Pointers

The Huffington Post | Jon Ward | Posted 05.24.2012

Read More: Creative Destruction, Video, 2012 Election, Bain Capital, President Obama, Mitt Romney, Elections 2012, 2012 Election Blog, Free Market, Capitalism, Private Equity, Politics News

One private equity industry insider expressed displeasure with Mitt Romney's explanations so far in defense of his record at Bain Capital, which has c...

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Private Equity Insider's Tip For Romney

Jon Ward | Posted 05.24.2012

Read More: Politics News, Creative Destruction, Video, Bain Capital, Elections 2012, Mitt Romney, 2012 Election Blog, Free Market, Capitalism, Private Equity, Barack Obama, Politics News

One private equity industry insider Thursday expressed displeasure with Mitt Romney's explanations so far in defense of his record at Bain Capital, wh...

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Glass-Steagall and Private Equity: Fact and Fiction

Robert Teitelman | Posted 05.24.2012

Read More: New York Times, Robert Teitelman, Bain Capital, Private Equity, Glass-Steagall, Andrew Ross Sorkin, Mitt Romney, Glass-Steagall Act, Business News

The "success" of private equity must mean that everyone must be an entrepreneur, an engineer or an M.B.A. "Change" that worked in the conditions of the '70s must be the solution in times that even Brooks admits are "radically different."

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Obama Has to Explain Why Fairness Is Essential to Growth (and Why Some Democrats Have to Stop Believing Otherwise)

Robert Reich | Posted 05.24.2012

Read More: 99 Percent, 1 Percent, Cory Booker, The One Percent, Wall Street, Income Inequality, Bain Capital, Elections 2012, Mitt Romney, Private Equity, Barack Obama, Politics News

Mitt Romney epitomizes the unfairness of the American economy in this new Gilded Age. For that same reason, Romney is the quintessence of an economic approach shown to be anti-growth and anti-jobs. The president needs to tell this to the American people.

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Romney Shies From Bain Debate

HuffingtonPost.com | Jon Ward | Posted 05.24.2012

Read More: Video, Creative Destruction, Bain Capital, Mitt-Romney, Steve Rattner, Elections 2012, Mitt Romney, Private Equity, Barack Obama, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Mitt Romney refused to give the green light Wednesday to a full discussion of his career in private equity at Bain Capital. Time Mag...

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Bad Debts, Big Profits: How Private Equity Firms Turn Red Ink Into Gold

David Callahan | Posted 05.23.2012

Read More: Lbos, Romney and Bain, Ampad, Bain Capital, GS Technologies, David Brooks, Private Equity Firms, Josh Kosman, Private Equity, Business News

Modern American capitalism is rife with sophisticated financial intermediaries who exploit flaws and complexity in the system, as well as insider connections, to make profits off of predatory behavior -- which brings us back to why the attacks on Bain Capital are both accurate and fair.

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Biden Makes Plumber Analogy

AP | HOLLY RAMER | Posted 05.22.2012

Read More: Video, Bain Capital, 2012 Election, Mitt Romney 2012, Mitt Romney, Elections 2012, Plumber, Joe Biden Plumber, Private Equity, Romney Bain Capital, Politics News

KEENE, N.H. — The presidential campaign debate over Republican Mitt Romney's tenure at a private equity firm is going down the drain. Vice Pres...

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In the 2012 Presidential Election, How Important - for Better or for Worse - Is Mitt Romney's Track Record at Bain Capital?

Peter Smirniotopoulos | Posted 05.22.2012

In order to understand Romney's reliance on his Bain Capital experience, one must also gain an understanding about how private equity works, the prevailing general ignorance about which has, thus far, benefitted the Romney campaign.

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Romney, Bain and the Great Republican Scam

Sanjay Sanghoee | Posted 05.22.2012

Read More: Fiscal Conservatives, Bain Capital, November Election, Elections 2012, Mitt Romney, Democrats, Barack Obama 2012, Ampad, Private Equity, Job Creation, Republicans, Politics News

To put it very simply, Republicans may say that they are for economic growth and job creation but what they are really for is wealth creation for a privileged few.

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Romney's Bain in the Ass

Andy Ostroy | Posted 05.22.2012

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Mitt Romney's running for president on one central campaign theme: that he's the savvy business guy whose tenure at private equity firm Bain Capital in the 1980's and 90's has made him a job-creator while President Obama is a job-cutter.

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Romney Adviser: Bain Capital Record Is 'Fair Game'

The Huffington Post | Jon Ward | Posted 05.22.2012

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Former New Hampshire Gov. John Sununu told reporters Tuesday that Mitt Romney's business record should be examined, but denounced President Obama's re...

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Mitt Romney, Bain Capital, and Tony Soprano

Michael Takiff | Posted 05.21.2012

Read More: Elections 2012, Mitt Romney, Tony Soprano, Romney Private Equity, Private Equity, Republican Party, The Sopranos, Bain Capital, Politics News

We know Mitt Romney believes in one thing: making money. We also know that he made tons of it -- not all his fortune, but not a trivial portion of it, either -- by immoral means.

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Private Equity Firms Pushing Dentists To Detrimentally Overtreat Patients

The Huffington Post | Bonnie Kavoussi | Posted 05.18.2012

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A crown on a four-year-old's tooth? That's just one of the consequences of private equity's leap into the dentist's chair. That's because dental m...

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Private Equity Investors Should Look to Environmental and Social Sustainability

Lars H. Thunell | Posted 05.15.2012

Read More: Sustainability, Equity Investors, Developing Countries, Private Equity, Business News

Given the long-term nature of equity investments, it is in the self interest of the private equity industry as a whole to embrace the Equator Principles. Some large private equity firms are hiring dedicated sustainability officers.

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Private Equity Hearts Oil

The Huffington Post | D.M. Levine | Posted 05.07.2012

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Private equity loves oil and gas. The money private-equity firms spent on deals in the oil-and-gas industry reached at least a 20-year high in the...

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Romney's 'Business Model' Is Bad for America

Sanjay Sanghoee | Posted 05.06.2012

Read More: Mitt Romney Bain Capital, Business Model, Elections 2012, Bain Capital, LBO Returns, Mitt Romney CEO, Mitt Romney, Mitt Romney 2012, Bain Capital Profits, Leveraged Buyout, Private Equity, Business News

If you relish the idea of electing someone who has made money through a business model that, in many instances, destroys value and has negative repercussions for our economy, then Romney is your man.

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Bloomberg Businessweek Pulls a Bait and Switch

Yvette Kantrow | Posted 05.04.2012

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The story is less about private equity -- big or small -- and more about bringing efficiency to manufacturing, a standard practice in corporate America, particularly after a merger. That's supposed to be good, right?

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Mitt Romney's Partner in Crime: Ed Conard's Unintended Consequences

Dean Baker | Posted 05.03.2012

Read More: Taxes, Mitt Romney, Wall Street, Private Equity, Edward Conrad, Books News

It's standard practice during the election campaign for presidential candidates to publish an autobiographical account of their rise to stardom or their philosophy of life and politics. It seems that Mitt Romney has outsourced this task to Ed Conrad, one of his former partners at Bain Capital.

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Private Equity Doing Just Fine, Thanks

HuffingtonPost.com | D.M. Levine | Posted 04.16.2012

Read More: Vc, Mergers and Acquisitions, Oak Tree Capital Group, Video, Ipo, Venture Capital, Private Equity, Brightsource Energy, Private Equity Exits, Business News

The boom times are back, sort of, for private equity, but don't break out the champagne just yet. More companies backed by private equity went publ...

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Thanks To BofA You Can Now Buy Foreclosed Homes In Bulk

Reuters | Posted 04.13.2012

Read More: Foreclosure Crisis, Video, Freddie Mac, Subprime Mortgages, Hedge Funds, TPG Capital, Countrywide Financial, Reuters, Bank of America, Mortgage Crisis, Assets, Fannie Mae, Federal Housing Finance Agency, Banks, Foreclosure, Private Equity, Business News

By Matthew Goldstein and Jennifer Ablan NEW YORK, April 12 (Reuters) - For the second time in five months, Bank of America is tapping ...

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