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According to The New York Observer, former Crimson editor Jennifer 8. Lee ’98-’99, a star Metro reporter for The New York Times, has accepted the paper’s buyout package...
...companies with borrowed money, make them more efficient and then resell, turning a profit in the process. These days, nearly 1 in 10 nongovernmental employees works for a private equity-owned company, and that, says longtime industry reporter Josh Kosman, is a big problem. In his new book, The Buyout of America: How Private Equity Will Cause the Next Great Credit Crisis, Kosman argues that private-equity firms not only pillage the companies they buy, but also put the broader economy at risk by making those companies take on copious amounts of debt. TIME's Barbara Kiviat spoke with Kosman...
More broadly, what sorts of companies should we be worried about? Unfortunately, private-equity firms infiltrated almost every industry - industrials, consumer goods, retail, hospitals, utilities - so a leveraged-buyout bust will be very widespread. TXU, which is now called Energy Future Holdings, one of the largest utilities in Texas, faces huge problems. They probably won't default on their debt until 2013, but at this point, and this is according to ratings agencies, it looks like they have very little chance of paying their debt. The range is from a huge utility like that to HCA, the largest hospital chain...
...With about $1 billion in assets, the Picower Foundation, which he started with his wife Barbara, supported causes like neuroscience research at MIT and public education in Florida. The largesse seemed a fitting testament to the Bronx, N.Y., native's ascent from accountant and lawyer to billionaire investor and buyout artist...
...August, eight out of the 28 total history and history of science staff members left as a result of layoffs, staff-buyout packages and voluntary departures...