…companies they acquire. See Lichtblau & Lattman, Equity Firms Like Bain Are Depicted as Colluding, New York Times (Sept. 11, 2012). Both tax evasion and price-rigging are criminal activities, so…

…on inflation could affect the Fed if Romney wins in November. The former private equity executive has vowed to replace Bernanke, whose term expires in 2014. He’d likely fill any…

…raised by Professor Victor Fleischer of University of Colorado Law School is that private equity firms have come up with a way to make fees that are unarguably management fees…

…care; allowing today’s robber barons (corporate moguls and private equity vulture capitalists) to fire workers and reduce their pay indiscriminately through dismantling of unions whenever possible; elimination of tax burdens…

…zero, the Trust Fund never becomes (or shouldn’t anyway) a purely free lunch. Pretty cheap for the social utililty and equity Social Security delivers but not cost free. As Chief…

…to remove the super-preferential rate on the compensation income of private equity fund managers? “Romney has not explained how, as president, he can bring objectivity to bear on this tax…

…wealthiest man to run for president, the only bankster/private equity fund founder (sole shareholder, CEO and manager) to run for president, and probably the only person with multiple multi-million dollar…

…the corporation’s origin, and a private equity firm’s investment in companies that specialize in assisting American corporations with offshoring employment, is Yglesias. Even Romney apparently recognizes the distinction. Not sure…

…“Bain’s foray into outsourcing began in 1993 when the private equity firm took a stake in Corporate Software Inc., or CSI, after helping to finance a $93 million buyout of…

…as to boost its credibility. And if demand expectations as reflected in equity or bond prices showed signs of weakening ahead of the cliff, the Fed could preemptively swing into…