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...stock market is supposed to be efficient in two senses. First, it is supposed to distribute and structure capital efficiently to maximize the output of the economy. Second, it is said to deliver the bounty of prosperity efficiently to its loyal investors...
...stock market deliver that $10 billion in value? Why does it take Schwarzman and crew to squeeze it out (for themselves)? Some say it's the short-term perspective of the investing public. Some say it's excessive regulation, most of which doesn't apply to private-equity investments. Whatever the explanation, the billions earned by private-equity operations aren't "created," as the whimsical conceit of Wall Street troubadours would have it. These billions are a toll charge collected from ordinary investors...
...will you? The consensus in the business world seems to be that Schwarzman and his colleagues may be selling full-price tickets to a ball game in the ninth inning, as the stock market fizzles out. These private-equity types are not in the habit of selling at the bottom. "I always think about what will kill off the other person," Schwarzman once noted, charmingly. Go ahead and buy Blackstone when it becomes available. But don't be disappointed if you take your shares home, unwrap them, wave your magic wand, say abracadabra ... and nothing happens...
Suddenly, this has become the year to look back on all that and take stock of the ways feminist ideas have entered the bloodstream of art for good. Not only are there big, boisterous exhibitions in Los Angeles and New York City, but on March 23 feminist art's most resolute artifact, The Dinner Party by Judy Chicago, goes on permanent display in a specially constructed gallery within the new Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum. Say what you will about it, that it's middlebrow, elementary and literal-minded (which...
Other than a short aberration in our stock price, it didn't really affect us. The industry has had a so-so track record in M&A over the past three to four years. But if there's a deal that can get done, it's this one. They're addressing all the right hot buttons--providing rate certainty to customers, a premium to shareholders, even an environmental section that would reduce the number of their coal-fired electricity plants. The only wild card here is what regulators and politicians will...