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Private Equity in Trouble: How Sweet It Is
Whenever a group that portrays itself as Masters of the Universe gets into trouble, it is time to rejoice. How delicious that Bain Capital and Thomas H. Lee Partners are about to lose out on their deal to take Clear Channel Communications private. It's a $19.5 billion...
Tags: Financial services, Investment, William J. Holstein, private equity
Blog posts 2008-03-26
The Fed Bailout: Beware the Moral Hazard
The Federal Reserve's decision to pump $200 billion into the hands of American banks deserves a cautionary yellow-flag. The Fed is clearly putting taxpayer dollars at risk by allowing the banks to trade their funny money mortgage-related instruments for Treasury bonds and bills. The banks don't know...
Tags: Financial services, William J. Holstein, Federal Reserve Board, bank
Blog posts 2008-03-12
The Battle for The New York Times
This is a fascinating battle where two fundamental impulses--the right of shareholders to earn the best possible returns and the role of an independent media in the American democracy--come into conflict. Disclosure: I've been writing for the Times for seven years, but think I can step back...
Tags: Corporate governance, Investment, New York Times Co., William J. Holstein, Sulzbergers, media, board, counterargument
Blog posts 2008-02-26
Nell Minow: What Went Wrong at Citi, Merrill
Nell Minow, editor of The Corporate Library, has been a gadfly and corporate critic for many years. Her No. 1 issue these days is compensation for chief executive officers. And she's right that mismanagement of CEO compensation played a role in what went wrong at the top of some of...
Tags: Benefits, Financial services, Citigroup Inc., William J. Holstein, Nell Minow, compensation
Blog posts 2008-02-21
Goodbye, Eddie Lampert. We Hardly Knew Ye.
Well, it looks official. As I have warned previously in these pages, Eddie Lampert's wild experiment at Sears is coming to an end. Even the Wall Street Journal (on Wednesday Jan. 23) and now the New York Times (see this link, from Friday) agree that he does not know what...
Tags: Financial services, Investment, William J. Holstein, Eddie, Sears Roebuck & Co.
Blog posts 2008-01-27
SEC Chairman Cox Makes Another Smooth Move
CEOs of small and medium-sized companies should stand up and cheer Christopher Cox, chairman of the SEC. Cox wants to delay, for another year, the deadline for companies with market capitalizations of less than $75 million to comply with Section 404 of Sarbox, which was enacted...
Tags: Sarbanes-Oxley, William J. Holstein, Cox, SEC
Blog posts 2007-12-14
Do Sears' Troubles Hint At Coming Wave of Bankruptcies?
Now comes word that the once lionized Edward S. Lampert is having troubles with the combined Sears-Kmart giant he assembled only two years ago. What a far cry from the days when he was being hailed for his management genius. In brief, Lampert's problem is that falling...
Tags: Investment, Financial accounting, Financial services, bankruptcy, William J. Holstein, Edward S. Lampert, Sears Roebuck & Co.
Blog posts 2007-12-07
The China Bubble
I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that there is something seriously crazy going on with Chinese company valuation, and U.S. investors need to make sure they don't get swept up in the madness. PetroChina Co. suddenly has a market valuation of $1...
Tags: Investment, William J. Holstein, PetroChina Co.
Blog posts 2007-11-07
Chrysler, Private Equity and The Future Auto Industry
Many people seem surprised by the depth of job cutbacks at Chrysler--11,000 more hourly and salaried jobs in the United States and Canada, and reduced shifts at five other plants. That comes on top of 13,000 job cuts earlier this year. But this is the new reality...
Tags: Investment, Financial services, William J. Holstein, private equity, Chrysler LLC, Robert Nardelli
Blog posts 2007-11-02

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The Sixth Annual CEO leadership summit: global forces are transforming the U.S. economy. Wise policy will be essential to maintain competitiveness
The U.S. economy is poised at a particularly historic crossroads: huge competitive pressures and global financial imbalances are buffeting it at the same time that it retains the power to innovate and adapt. Whether the economy gains strength or loses its comparative advantage will depend in large part on decisions...
Articles 2005-01-01
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