Kohlberg Kravis IPO: If It Happens, It'll Be A More Diversified Firm
Kohlberg Kravis Roberts on Monday said it had hired William Sonneborn to further develop its asset management business, in a move that The Financial T...
Kohlberg Kravis Roberts on Monday said it had hired William Sonneborn to further develop its asset management business, in a move that The Financial T...
Fortune | Posted 05.19.2008 | Business
The Carlyle Group: 2008 Rank: 1 2007 Rank: 3 Recent buyout fundraising: $39 billion With 1,000-plus employees, 34 offices spread across every contin...
New York Times | Brooke Barnes | Posted 05.19.2008 | Business
Last September, when Sanjay Sanghoee set about turning his first novel into a Hollywood movie, the budding filmmaker had his pick of investors. The n...
Portfolio | Megan Barnett | Posted 04.09.2008 | Business
It's easy to see how tempting it might be for Leon Black to take his private equity firm, Apollo Management, public right now. After all, if one group...
Rev. Peter Laarman | Posted 03.31.2008 | Politics
My skin started to quiver when our Treasury secretary, Mr. Henry "Hank" Paulson, late of Goldman Sachs, rolled out his financial markets reform package over this past weekend.
Silicon Alley Insider | Peter Kafka | Posted 03.31.2008 | Business
Now that Barry Diller has won his court case against John Malone, he's free to break up IAC (IACI) into 5 pieces. The problem: Convincing investors th...
New York Times | MICHAEL J. de la MERCED | Posted 03.11.2008 | Business
With their big paydays and bigger egos, private equity moguls came to symbolize an era of hyper-wealth on Wall Street. Now their fortunes are plummet...
CNBC | Charlie Gasparino | Posted 02.11.2008 | Business
American International Group's disclosure that its losses from risky debt may be billions of dollars more than previously reported could eventually pu...
Yvette Kantrow | Posted 02.08.2008 | Business
Stop the presses! Big cheese financial journalist James B. Stewart has weighed in on Steve Schwarzman. In the Feb. 11 issue of The New Yorker, Stewa...
New York Times | Dealbook | Posted 02.07.2008 | Business
Private equity bosses are constantly fighting off criticism that they are "flippers," buying companies and quickly selling them for a profit without a...
Wall Street Journal | Posted 02.05.2008 | Business
One of the strange side-effects of the wealth boom is the emergence of what I call "wealth denial." Today, no one seems to want to fess up to their t...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 01.21.2008 | Politics
In honor of Martin Luther King Day, filmmaker Robert Greenwald has released a sharp new short film on his topic-de-jour: the excesses of the private e...
Kerry Candaele | Posted 12.23.2007 | Politics
Rockford, Illinois, deserves a second look this holiday season, as 137 men and women walk a picket line in sub-zero weather.
David Sirota | Posted 12.14.2007 | Business
Private equity executives and their allies in Congress have started taking hostages, first potentially delaying tax refunds, and now threatening to charge the $50 billion price of the AMT fix to the next generation.
Cliff Schecter | Posted 12.07.2007 | Politics
Brave New Films is declaring a War On Greed, and unlike the Bush administration, when we declare war on something, we actually plan and send the appropriate resources.
Jonathan Tasini | Posted 10.12.2007 | Politics
The Wall Street Journal has an interview today with George Bush that gives great insight into the disinformation, lies and, charitably, cognitive d...
Jonathan Tasini | Posted 09.07.2007 | Business
Should the rich and wealthy, who are making astronomical profits, be allowed to pay less than hard-working Americans?
An ABC-TV outlet in Houston, and now the Houston Chronicle,...
The McCain campaign implied on Wednesday that Barack Obama's commitment...
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BERLIN -- On what used to be the East German side of the Brandenburg Gate, Linnea and...
Before the largest crowd of his campaign, Democratic presidential contender Barack...
When Katie Couric told Haaretz that "The glory days of TV news...
BARCELONA, Spain — Christian Bale swept into Barcelona on Wednesday night to attend a...
If you're wondering about the recent articles claiming that a study found...
HOUSTON — A "dead zone" in the Gulf of Mexico off...
WASHINGTON — Rescue legislation sailed through the House on Wednesday aimed at...
DealBook | Posted 07.22.2008 | Business