Private Equity
Having rescued American banks in the financial crisis of 2008 and 2009, the Federal Reserve is now stepping up to rescue Europe's banks in their sovereign crisis. Now, this is being billed as a joint action by ...
2 min read · 01 December 2011
4 min read · 18 November 2011
Create your free online surveys with SurveyMonkey, the world's leading questionnaire tool. It has been an interesting question at our Buyouts Texas conference in Dallas, whether the European single currency will survive the current crisis, and what its impact will be on dealmakers in the United States.
2 min read · 17 November 2011
Losing big piles of investor money and putting your firm out of business is pretty bad, but violating federal securities laws is worse, according to readers of peHUB. In fact, Rajat Gupta, a former Goldman board member indicted last week for insider trading, attracted twice as many votes in our Question of the Week as did Jon Corzine, a onetime Goldman CEO whose ...
1 min read · 04 November 2011
It has been a tough couple of weeks for Goldman Sachs alumni. On Monday, MF Global -- a global commodities and derivatives brokerage launched by onetime Goldman CEO Jon Corzine -- descended into bankruptcy as clients fled the firm's bets on risky European debt. That came just five days after Rajat Gupta, a former Goldman board member, was indicted for his alleged role in Raj Rajaratnam's insider trading conspiracy. But Corzine and Gupta aren't the only Goldman alums to have been brought low ...
1 min read · 03 November 2011
3 min read · 01 November 2011
3 min read · 27 October 2011
I don't get Groupon Inc., the "daily deal" company. I even subscribed to its daily e-mails for a while, for about 10 days, getting great bargains I'm sure on products and services that I had absolutely no interest in. So I unsubscribed, seeing no need to litter my in-box voluntarily with e-junk like that.
2 min read · 20 October 2011
1 min read · 17 October 2011
3 min read · 17 October 2011
