…to get a tax-advantaged “preferential rate” on carried interest that they get as their compensation in vulture capital “private equity” funds that buy up American businesses and load them with…

…of the housing bubble destroyed much of their housing equity, which has always been the main source of wealth for middle-income families. It would be great if we had reason…

…for constructing the plant. Second, that agreement does not specify how much equity (“skin in the game”) Poseidon will bring to the table in financing the $900 million project, but…

…and all or most of the aggregate banking system capital is exhausted. This situation may be accompanied by depressed asset prices (such as equity and real estate prices) on the…

…Unbalanced budgets are the key to private equity. Romney’s whole career as a businessman is based on understanding that an obsession with avoiding debt is costly. On this he is…

…the inequity in women’s compensation, he didn’t answer the question. He tried to turn it to his advantage by telling a story of how he ended up bringing a number…

…of the econoblogosphere. Equity and economic efficiency are not in conflict. Quite the contrary, in fact. For those who prefer to look at pesky things like facts, the empirical data…

…began their forty year decline. They emphasize the central role of Congressional and Presidential decision-making that has given us tax rules favoring the 1%, laws allowing private equity and other…

…the 2007-8 financial crisis–while continuing the over-spending on military and various lucrative loopholes for the wealthy like the “carried interest” provision for private equity managers. Third, he has been secretive…

…whom Romney convinced to take responsibility for himself. Which Tagg did, by borrowing a reported (if I recall correctly) $10 million from his parents to start a (very) private equity…