JANUARY 13, 2012 By JONATHAN MACEY Mr. Macey is a professor of corporate law, corporate finance and securities law at Yale Law School. EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: Because private-equity firms are, by definition, equity investors, they make money only if they improve the performance of their companies. Private equity is last in line to be
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JANUARY 11, 2012 Romney has a good story to tell, if he’s willing to tell it. About the best that can be said about the Republican attacks on Mitt Romney’s record at Bain Capital is that President Obama is going to do the same thing eventually, so GOP primary voters might as well know what’s
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Newsmax Jack Welch: Romney Is a ‘Great Leader’ Monday, January 9, 2012 09:47 AM By: Henry J. Reske Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney is the most qualified candidate for president in the past 75 years, says Jack Welch, former chairman and CEO of General Electric. “In my lifetime, Mitt Romney is the most qualified leader
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JANUARY 9, 2012 Romney at Bain: Big Gains, Some Busts By MARK MAREMONT Associated PressMitt Romney, with his parents and wife in 1994 announcing his candidacy for a Senate seat, a race he lost. Mitt Romney’s political foes are stepping up attacks based on his time running investment firm Bain Capital, tagging him with making
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JANUARY 4, 2012 America as Number Two Hong Kong again beat the NYSE in new stock offerings in 2011. One reason the U.S. economy isn’t creating enough jobs is that it’s not creating enough employers. After another dismal year in 2010 for American initial public offerings (IPOs), some had predicted a strong 2011. But now
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HERITAGE.ORG April 13, 2009 presentation by Steve Milloy, author of “Green Hell: How Environmentalists Plan to Control Your Life and What You Can Do To Stop Them”
Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Occupational Therapy A movement custom-designed to hurt liberals. Noemie Emery December 19, 2011, Vol. 17, No. 14 “God, I love ’em,” wrote Eugene Robinson in the Washington Post not long after the glorious dawning of Occupy Wall Street, saying that the protests “arise at just the right moment and
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DECEMBER 23, 2011 What Fannie and Freddie Knew The SEC shows how the toxic twins turbocharged the housing bubble. Democrats have spent years arguing that private lenders created the housing boom and bust, and that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac merely came along for the ride. This was always a politically convenient fiction, and now
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