…wildly overstated. The value added of venture capital is questionable. It produces stock-market type returns with more volatility. A colleague who founded a successful venture capital firm left when it…

Busy week, so just a couple of things of note. Via Dr. Black, my old neighborhood gets a chance to build a better future: “It’s a great partnership among a…

…institutions. Worldwide, the study finds, “natural capital accounts for 5 percent of total wealth, produced capital for 18 percent, and intangible capital 77 percent. It does not take a Harvard…

…war. While overall manufacturers new orders rose 0.8% (blue), the real surprise was in core capital goods orders, which importantly excludes the defense sector (red), which rose a sharp 3.3%…

…annual income from Bain Capital ties, may be prohibitive—from treatment in an emergency room or in, say, an operating room after arriving at an emergency room. And a third thing…

…of person who speaks derisively about 47 percent of Americans, none of whom are Bain investors, have overseas bank accounts, hire PriceWaterhouseCoopers to tally their tax returns, and have their…

…firm whose investors apparently all, or almost all, were people who’d made their fortunes through investments with Bain Capital. Tagg is a role model for young people just starting out…

…of the companies turn to outsourcing workers in order to make enough to pay off the debt. There’s not much in vulture capitalism that bodes well for a vulture capitalist…

…the same conclusion as numerous independent fact checkers in finding that Mitt Romney ended his active employment with Bain Capital in 1999.” The numerous fact checkers are Glenn Kessler (who…

…Amendment speech rights and shareholders’ money for political campaign expenditures. But unlike Goldman Sachs when lending leverage to Bain Capital, these shareholder political donors are captive ones. Of course, the…