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...1980s, when Michael Milken was funding buyouts, 52% of the biggest 25 companies acquired ended up going bankrupt. I did a study of the 1990s, ideal economic times, and with 6 of the 10 biggest buyouts, the companies clearly were worse off 10 years later. In three cases the results were mixed, and in one case the private-equity firm improved the business. This decade, 6 of the 10 biggest buyouts are already considered distressed, according to Moody's. The core practice does not work and rips apart our economy...
...case that the wealthier institutions among us should be taking less risk—not more risk—because they’re less able to manage the volatility in their investment returns given their dependence upon those returns in their operating budgets,” said Bacow, a graduate of Harvard Law School and the Kennedy School, in the interview...
What Went Wrong So here's the big question: Why? Why did so much bad stuff happen in this decade? Was it just rotten luck or something more? Sure, some of it was simply randomness, but I think a strong case can be made that it was more than just chance that got things so bollixed up. (See TIME's special "Out of Work in America...
...have "trimmed starting pay at major airlines to $36,000--little more than a grade-school teacher's." My question is, Who is really more valuable, the person flying travelers around or the person who taught the person in the plane to read, write, calculate and, unfortunately in this case, use a laptop? As a former teacher, I found Morrison's comment condescending and unnecessary...
ARAM HONG, member of the jury that acquitted two former Bear Stearns hedge-fund managers on charges of securities fraud, the first verdict in a major criminal case stemming from the 2008 financial crisis...