Word: blunts
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...There are other reasons to steer clear. In its IPO filing, Blackstone was very blunt about how erratic profit can be. That may be the nature of the private equity business model - buying existing companies and then spending years fixing them up before reselling and realizing gains - but it also makes it next to impossible to model future earnings and thus come up with a fair stock price, says Brian Hamilton, CEO of Sageworks, a financial analysis firm that specializes in private companies going public...
...autobiography, Michael Bloomberg had a blunt response to people who griped about partisanship: "They're wrong!" Party allegiance, he wrote, is "as important as the individual who's running." The billionaire media and finance mogul actually started one sentence with the words: "As a wealthy Democrat who has given consistently to my party." He then complained about all the candidates - "from those running for dog catcher on up" - who kept bugging him for campaign cash...
Still, these liberties do little to blunt the book's power as literature - or, perhaps more important, as an allegory of Kapuscinski's own communist-era Poland. Indeed, as The Emperor was going to press, the Polish government approved an extravagant flood-control program for the Vistula River; the author phoned in a new passage about a costly dam built by Selassie. "Everything is a metaphor," Kapuscinski once said. "My ambition is to find the universal...
...times their projected 2007 earnings-a high ratio even for a fast-growing developing economy-China is causing a serious case of the shakes. The issue isn't simply that the little guys are in danger of losing their savings. It's whether a serious market downturn might blunt, or even reverse, China's growth. Mainland authorities have already made it clear that they are concerned about economic overheating, "and the stock market is part of that picture," says an economist at the China Academy of Social Sciences (CASS). On May 18, China raised interest rates for the second time...
...wife is more blunt. "He's got access to every leader in every country, the business community, people of every political stripe," says Tipper. "He can do this his way, all over the world, for as long as he wants. That's freedom. Why would anyone give that...