…tonight, telling me the following: “Just read an interesting statistic that 37% of all private equity capital raised over the last 30 years was raised in the last three years….

…were considered debt in the US and equity in Europe. Thus interest paid on them was subtracted from earnings for the US corporate income tax as a cost and counted…

…the design of some of these funds has profoundly impacted investors’ fortunes in the bear market. A couple of years ago, leading providers boosted the equity portion of these portfolios…

…on the NYT series: If you believe that, I imagine you believe in the tooth fairy too. Goldman had $45 billion of equity as of its last balance sheet date….

…would this work? The new equity would improve banks’ capital ratios. Given the law as it is and should be, capital is assets minus debts and equity doesn’t enter. The…

…That is a separate problem — recapitalizing banks. That can be done by having the treasury buy an equity stake (as proposed by Doug Elmendorf) so that the treasury shares…

…percent of their equity?” he said in a Sept. 17 interview. Greenberg, the CEO for almost four decades until [he was ousted in] 2005, controlled about 11 percent of the…

…first proposition, he also states that the market economy is the most efficient of all economic systems. While true, I think many people become more concerned with equity than efficiency….

by rdan Preston and the Small Business Administration know about running a small business: It’s hard work. In fact, I often say small business owners match every dollar of equity…

…be facing that 2 workers per retiree “burden.” But it does have some bearing on that “generational fairness” issue that you may have heard about. Generational Equity is where a…