…to call themselves “private equity” these days–let’s people overlook the fact that they have destroyed many a stable, profitable business by loading them up with debt and sucking out all…

…believing that home equity was the same as earned income. Getting a tax cut anywhere is not the same as receiving a greater share of the nation’s income. It is…

…we hear about his business experience the less I think he is suited to the White House. At Bain Capital, as at most private equity firms, Romney was willing to…

…corporations, etc.). Rather than supporting a repeal of the “carried interest” loophole that allows private equity fund managers like Romney pay ridiculously low tax rates on their very high compensation…

…task force asked Bain Capital, the private equity company that Mr. Romney helped found, if it was interested in investing in General Motors’ European operations, according to one person with…

…than no private equity money or other private-source funding was forthcoming or likely to be forthcoming—I assumed that it the facetious intent of the title of the post would be…

…of Reaganism, which permitted the financialization of the economy and led to excessive incomes for people at the top (managers and owners, hedge fund and equity fund managers, and speculators…

…more equity investments in banks — which via its money-multiplying power would offset or more than offset the otherwise decline in loanable funds? Would we end up with roughly the…

…and home-equity loans (or corrupt ratings agencies that were the crux enablers of that dynamic.) The false GDP from that new private debt issuance — new money flooding the system…

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