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Liberal SuperPAC Had Secret Bain Ties

BuzzFeed | Ben Smith and Evan McMorris-Santoro | Posted 05.21.2013 | Politics

A top liberal SuperPAC in the 2012 election had undisclosed financial ties to the private equity firm Bain Capital — something that some people clos...

Dave Jamieson

Pain Under Bain: Retailer's Pay Rates Fall After Buyout

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 04.25.2013 | Business

Ernest Hampson has been working at Guitar Center for six years, not a brief span in the world of retail. During that time, the 26-year-old Brooklyn re...

Attack On Dem Echoes Romney's Bain Troubles

National Journal | Posted 04.11.2013 | Politics

Terry McAuliffe, the Democratic front-runner in the Virginia gubernatorial race, once made an outlandish claim that would make Mitt Romney cringe....

Laid-Off Employee Of Bain-Owned Company To Attend SOTU

The Huffington Post | Preston Maddock | Posted 02.11.2013 | Politics

A laid-off employee from a company owned by Bain Capital will join Rep. Cheri Bustos (D-Ill.) as her guest at the State of the Union address on Tuesda...

5 Ways I Found Happiness After Getting Fired

LearnVest | Posted 04.07.2013 | Women
LearnVest

In order to capture the depth of nausea that I felt on the day that I got fired, you need to picture me sitting across from my boss in his glaringly sunny office.Ā Then you need to envision giant tufts of wiry white hair sprouting out from the neck of his company polo shirt.

Ben Hallman

Obama Sets Sights On Lucrative Tax Break Used By Romney

HuffingtonPost.com | Ben Hallman | Posted 02.05.2013 | Business

For chief executive Stephen Schwarzman, running the private equity firm Blackstone Group has proven enormously lucrative, bringing him nearly $140 mil...

Judge Temporarily Halts Contraception Mandate For Firm Owned By Domino's Pizza Founder

AP | Posted 12.31.2012 | Politics

DETROIT -- A federal judge has ruled a property management company owned by the founder of Domino's Pizza doesn't have to immediately implement mandat...

Need A Job? Get One Here And Be Happy!

The Huffington Post | Alexis Kleinman | Posted 12.15.2012 | Business

It's difficult to put a finger on what exactly makes employees happy, but career community website Glassdoor just released its list of the best compan...

Bain Capital The Best At Using Controversial Low-Tax Strategy

Reuters | Lynnley Browning and Nanette Byrnes | Posted 12.06.2012 | Business

(Reuters) - Bain Capital has been leading private equity firms in using a controversial financing strategy to generate low-tax special dividends for i...

Amanda Terkel

Obama Aide On What She Calls Romney's Big Mistake

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 11.30.2012 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- Stephanie Cutter still doesn't understand why Mitt Romney's campaign did not more forcefully defend its candidate's business experience....

It Was the Economy, Stupid

Jim Worth | Posted 01.24.2013 | Politics
Jim Worth

Romney's credibility for becoming president was his business acumen, but, ultimately, his perceived advantage over Obama became his deficit.

A Final Word on 2012: Class Warfare Won

Robert L. Borosage | Posted 01.15.2013 | Politics
Robert L. Borosage

Amid the flood of analysis about the 2012 election, too little attention has been paid to what may be its most obvious aspect. This was one of the first class warfare elections of the new Gilded Age -- and the middle class won big.

We Just Had A Class War .. And One Side Won

New York Magazine | Jonathan Chait | Posted 11.12.2012 | Politics

When President Obama took the stage at McCormick Place in Chicago well after midnight, we were all too wiped out with joy or depression or Nate Silver...

America Reelects President Obama, and Rejects the Republican Plutocrat.

Russell C. Smith | Posted 01.09.2013 | Politics
Russell C. Smith

The American people have seen how extreme wealth concentrated at the top greatly unbalances the lives of citizens, and a growing number of people want the opposite, and are willing to work to change the system.

Bain Capital: OK, You Can Stop Hating Us Now

Mark Gongloff | Posted 01.09.2013 | Business
Mark Gongloff

The rich people who tend to invest in private equity are probably more inclined to invest with Bain Capital than ever, precisely because it was a target of the angry Poors. Just to be on the safe side, though, Bain wrote its investors a love note yesterday just to make sure everybody was still cool.

We Don't Want a Romney Economy

Gina Levy | Posted 01.06.2013 | Politics
Gina Levy

Mitt Romney has repeatedly asserted that his experience as a successful businessman qualifies him to be president. The workers from the Sensata plant in Freeport, Ill., pop. 25,000, ardently disagree.

They're Rich, They Love Romney And They're Here To Party!

Reuters | Posted 01.06.2013 | Business

* Some big-name Romney backers will be watching from Boston * Superstorm Sandy scuttled some election-night party plans ...

Zach Carter

Mitt Romney Haunted By Tax Returns He Withheld

HuffingtonPost.com | Zach Carter | Posted 11.06.2012 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- As the GOP presidential candidate faced pressure over the past year to release more financial information, it was widely presumed that a...

The ONE Video You Need to See Before You Vote

Elizabeth Parisian | Posted 01.05.2013 | Politics
Elizabeth Parisian

In the words of Sensata worker Dot Turner, who worked hard at the same job for 43 years and yet will likely spend Election Day filing for unemployment for the first time: "It's going take all of us as Americans to stand up and say, 'No more.'"

Why Romney Is Unfit for the Presidency

David_Halperin | Posted 01.05.2013 | Politics
David_Halperin

If you think Romney is ready to transcend his questionable business practices, consider that in his only political job, in one term as Massachusetts governor, Romney stood aloof from legislators. Clearly he just suffered through the degrading experience of running a state to build his resume for a White House run.

Remember When Romney Cracked Down on Outsourcing? Me Neither

James P. Hoffa | Posted 01.04.2013 | Politics
James P. Hoffa

Millions of Americans need good-paying jobs. Unfortunately, Mitt Romney doesn't have a plan to create them. That's just what you'd expect from a man who made his fortune sending American jobs overseas and profitable companies into bankruptcy.

Team Obama Has to Win to Keep America Shining

Karma Kitaj | Posted 01.04.2013 | Politics
Karma Kitaj

Yes, I have been disappointed in some ways with the president. He's revealed himself to be a human, not an icon. But, I'm 100 percent certain that he's got our back.

Fountainhead

Paula Gordon | Posted 01.03.2013 | Politics
Paula Gordon

The First Amendment guarantees our right to embrace any religion we choose, no matter how peculiar. It also protects our right to talk about it along with almost anything else (truthfulness is optional).

Which of These Stories Work for You? You Have Two Days to Decide

Norman Lear | Posted 01.03.2013 | Politics
Norman Lear

I'm a story teller. And I keep thinking about the life stories of Barack Obama and Mitt Romney. In some ways, both are right out of the American storybook. Of course, some of the details would indicate that the truth can be bent.

Zach Carter

Did GM Bail Out Mitt Romney?

HuffingtonPost.com | Zach Carter | Posted 11.03.2012 | Politics

In 2000, a financially struggling plastics company that supplied car parts received emergency funding from auto manufacturers General Motors and Ford ...