Private equity firms are not net job creators and they sure don't need the crazily huge distortionary tax break that they get.
The Huffington Post | Bonnie Kavoussi | Posted 05.18.2012
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...
The Huffington Post | D.M. Levine | Posted 03.13.2012
Try as it might, the private equity industry hasn't won the hearts and minds of average Americans. More than half of Americans say they have a neg...
Parvez Ahmed | Posted 04.15.2012
Over the last two decades the system has become lopsided so as to leave the 99 percent feeling helpless and hopeless. Meanwhile special interest groups continue to rig the system disproportionately in favor of the 1 percent.
Posted 12.07.2011
U.S. banks want regulators to give them more time to liquidate investments in certain private equity funds under the Volcker rule, arguing that wi...
Robert Reich | Posted 05.25.2011
Call me old fashioned but I just think it's wrong that a single hedge fund manager earns a billion dollars, when a billion dollars would pay the salaries of about 20,000 teachers.
Reuters | Felix Salmon | Posted 05.25.2011
Paul Volcker's long NYT op-ed last weekend, and his testimony to the Senate banking committee this week, did very little to clear up a lot of the unce...
Posted 05.25.2011
A day after Senate Banking Committee Chairman Chris Dodd's office indicated that he may scrap the centerpiece of President Obama's financial regulator...
New York Times | LOUISE STORY and ERIC DASH | Posted 05.25.2011
Only a year after the government stepped in to aid Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley by granting them access to the federal safety net, policy makers a...
Georges Ugeux | Posted 05.25.2011
Instead of trying to come up with a constructive solutio, the banks failed to accept that their exceptional earnings did not come to them.
Jared Bernstein | Posted 05.25.2012