Remember when PE firms backed out of signed deals in droves? They looked like jerks at the time, but in retrospect, they were probably smart to avoid the overpriced, highly leveraged deals they had aggressively pursued for the past three years. Taking into account the Dow’s record breaking drops l...

And then grab a stage break Nobody can be right all the time, but Dr. Nouriel Roubini has come pretty darn close so far. That does not, however, preclude being correct into perpetuity. Dr. Roubini has now grasped near constant media attention, and I believe the media’s insatiable desire for co...

For his second act, Eliot Spitzer, the former governor and attorney general of New York, is reportedly following in his father's footsteps as an investor in commercial real estate. Mr. Spizter, who resigned from his political post following a scandal involving a prostitute, has acquired a prominent ...

urban planning, Kendall Square, Cambridge Wade Roush wrote: Companies, merchants, and residents in the Kendall Square neighborhood of Cambridge banded together last week to form the Kendall Square Association, a non-profit group whose mission, according to its new president Tim Rowe, is to “im...

Digg getting into the toolbar business: Smart Rihanna going back to Chris Brown: Dumb Adam Corrolla taking his show online: Smart Andrew Baron’s analysis of why TV Studios will die : Smart Money’s diminishing returns : True We need more ass wiping businesses : True Obama’s budget i...

The comment thread from the previous post raises an important point that deserves treatment in its own post: what's the deal with the House version of the mortgage lien stripping bill (H.R. 1106), a vote on which has been postponed due to fears from pushback from "Blue Dog" and &...

Interesting.  Apax Partners, the massive UK-based private equity group, has sold a 7.7% stake in its management company to a pair of sovereign wealth funds: Singapore's GIC and the Australia Future Fund. I usually hold my nose when GPs sell off equity in their firm to out...

The public has been told all their lives to invest. Sock that money away - put it into the market. For the long term. Save dividends, which are now being whacked hard, long-term equity investors have little to show for their efforts over the last twelve years. Throw volatility into the mix, and you ...

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    "It's Dr. Evil, I didn't spend six years in Evil Medical School to be called "mister," thank you very much." It's D-Day.  Your bank manager has just broken the uncomfortable news that he will no longer be your point of contact and you shoul...