Buyouts

Jobless rate rises to 4-year high of 5.7 percent

AP | JEANNINE AVERSA | Posted 08.01.2008 | Business

Read More: Economy, Recession, Jobs, Layoffs, Buyouts, Consumer Spending, Labor Department, Business News

WASHINGTON — Stores, factories and other businesses large and small showed workers the door last month, sending unemployment to its highest rate...

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Report: Clear Channel Deal Collapsing

AP | MICHELLE ROBERTS | Posted 03.26.2008 | Business

Read More: Media Companies, Clear Channel Deal, Clear Channel Communications, Buyouts, Buyout Firms, Clear Clannel Deal Collapsing, Private Equity Firms, Clear Channel, Business News

SAN ANTONIO — Shares of Clear Channel Communications Inc. plummeted in late trading Tuesday, following a report that the media company's private...

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Henry Kravis' Transparent Greed

Tom Woodruff | Posted 10.31.2007 | Business

Read More: Pension, Greed, Buyouts, Wealth, Pension Fund, Sotheby's Art Buyers, Forbes Richest Americans, Billionaires, Greedy, Kravis Pension Fund, Henry Kravis, Business News
Tom Woodruff

You have to give it to Henry Kravis. Few people would have the nerve to stand up in front of a crowd of pension fund and other institutional investors and joke about jacking them for billions.

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$25 Bil Buyout Of Sallie Mae In Jeopardy

AP | Marcy Gordon | Posted 09.26.2007 | Business

Read More: Sallie Mae, Buyouts, J.C Flowers & Co, Business News

The planned $25 billion buyout of student lender Sallie Mae was thrown into jeopardy Wednesday after the investors said terms of the deal were no long...

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