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Entries tagged "Deal Journal"Buffett on the evils of private equityBuffett continues to use private equity firms as a foil to convince the world -- especially regulators -- that he's the good guy. Roll Call: Jan. 21, 2009The Senate heard testimony from President Obama's Treasury Secretary nominee Timothy Geithner Wednesday, and he's likely to receive confirmation in the coming days. In the meantime, various experts and pundits are offering him some advice. Professor Luigi Zingales of U. Chicago writes an open letter to Geithner, describing two potential bank fix plans. Nationalizing banks is a popular fix in certain circles (although not for Zingales), leading Deal Journal to write a FAQ on what it means to taxpayers. So is the current recession really the worst since the Great Depression? The New York Times' David Leonhardt attempts to answer... Roll Call: Jan. 15, 2009Wondering where the Citigroup Inc. nationalization chatter started? Dealbreaker offers an interesting theory. Private equity firms have put the breaks on limited partners selling fund stakes on the secondary market because of tax concerns, but as peHUB explains, where there is a will, there is a way around the restrictions. Dealscape's affiliate Corporate Dealmaker notes that the corporate bond market is beginning to thaw. Deal Journal offers an explanation of how even junk offerings are getting done despite the credit crisis. News Wednesday that Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs would take a leave of absence from the company prompted the... Roll Call: Jan. 14, 2009After a few days of speculation, Citigroup Inc. and Morgan Stanley officially announced their Smith Barney deal late Tuesday. While the game of speculation ended for the media, it created a new flurry of articles. Deal Journal suggests that the two firms study Wachovia Corp.'s and Prudential Financial Inc.'s ill-fated brokerage joint venture that ended with the Rock selling its stake to Wells Fargo & Co. Even before the deal's announcement, Dealscape's affiliate Corporate Dealmaker examined some of the potential integration issues facing the firms. DealZone points out that the credit crisis has forced Morgan's John Mack to dust off... Roll Call: Jan. 12, 2009CNBC personality Charlie Gasparino writing for Tina Brown's The Daily Beast deserves the quote of the week for writing: "The BofA/Merrill merger has been like watching a slow-moving train wreck." Wondering if and when Morgan Stanley's John Mack will falter? Deal Journal's Mean Street columnist Evan Newmark believes the Smith Barney deal will be Mack's undoing. Newmark isn't the only observer offering up a dose of skepticism over the Morgan Stanley-Smith Barney deal. The Deal's Corporate Dealmaker outlines some of the potential post-merger integration hang-ups that await Morgan Stanley. A sale of Smith Barney isn't the only change afoot... Roll Call: Jan. 7, 2009For all the rabble-rousing against the bailout, TARP evidently is profitable, according to Deal Journal. Is The New York Times at risk of not publishing come May? The Atlantic's Michael Hirschorn makes a case for what a post-print Times might look like, leading to a rebuke from Portfolio's Market Movers blogger Felix Salmon. Speaking of shutdowns, on Dec. 12 Wall Strip went on a holiday break that won't end, according to peHUB and confirmed by DealBook. While 2008 is over, bad news from the year that was continues. The latest nugget is the assertion that private equity firms will likely... Roll Call: Dec. 18, 2008Slate has uncovered an essay from Bernard Madoff's accountant, David Friehling. Rather than keeping Madoff's books honest, he was off gallivanting across Europe, where he evidently was amazed that Europeans had ATMs. By the way, ClusterStock notes Friehling hasn't been seen since Madoff was arrested. Maybe someone should check his ATM records. From essays, Dealscape turns to poems. Nomura Securities International Inc.'s chief economist David Resler thought it would be cute to write a holiday poem about the bad economy, notes Deal Journal. Whoever first called economics the dismal science evidently never met Resler. On the topic of the dismal... Roll Call: Dec. 16, 2008While the world reviles Bernie Madoff's massive Ponzi scheme, Time's Curious Capitalist blog reminds us that Social Security and even U.S. Treasuries basically operate much like Ponzi schemes. Meanwhile, Deal Journal offers a 10-point check list to help investors avoid a Ponzi scheme, and the good news is that Social Security and U.S. Treasury notes pass the test. What do you think Madoff will do now that he's been caught? Dealbreaker is running a poll, where most respondents think he'll quietly accept whatever sentence is doled out, and not go on the lam like Sam Israel. Will the Madoff scandal... Roll Call: Dec. 15, 2008So how does Bernard Madoff's Ponzi scheme compare to almost a century of such frauds? DealBook offers a summation of Charles Ponzi's first such fraud in 1919 and continues with a summation of some of the more notable ones through the years. Not everyone is indignant over the Madoff scandal. Deal Journal's Mean Street columnist Evan Newmark finds some positives in it. It seems Madoff didn't only cheat his clients, but his golf partners too, according to ClusterStock. Madoff's sons were part of the firm, but allegedly are not part of the scandal. Dealbreaker found a video that might explain... Roll Call: Dec. 8, 2008Merrill Lynch & Co. CEO John Thain reportedly made the case to the company's board that he deserves a bonus, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday morning, but eventually reneged after media took him to task. Nonetheless, some made a case for him including Portfolio's Felix Salmon and Deal Journal's Evan Newmark. Of course there were plenty in the blogosphere prostrate over the idea, but one of the better-thought-out cases comes from BusinessWeek's Ben Steverman over at Investing Insights. The bonus kerfuffle prompted Clusterstock to ask how long Thain will last at notoriously thrifty Bank of America Corp. after the... Roll Call: Dec. 2, 2008The heads of the Big Three are again on their way to Washington to ask for bailout money, and financial and political bloggers are offering their opinions. US News & World Report's business blog Flow Chart lists the seven worst ideas on how to rescue Detroit. Deal Journal's Heidi Moore questions Ford Motor Co.'s CEO Alan Mullaly's sincerity about his company's restructuring plan, noting that the provision to possibly sell Volvo is in fact nothing new having been the industry's worst-kept secret since July. So what's another $25 billion or even $50 billion to save Detroit anyway, when the... Roll Call: Nov. 25, 2008While the New York Post and others blame Wall Street executives for the credit crisis, Scientific America and rival Discover both blame the rocket scientists that Wall Street employed, who created the exotic financial instruments, notes ClusterStock. Meanwhile, Charles Calomiris, the Henry Kaufman professor of Financial Institutions at Columbia University's business school, is angry at Hank Paulson, telling Deal Journal that the bailout plan to save the economy is "Truly idiotic." The man that President-elect Barack Obama will rely on to pick up where Paulson left off, treasury secretary nominee Tim Geithner, received some drubbings already over his role so... Top tagsYou have executed a tag search on Dealscape. On the left,you will find a comprehensive list of stories tagged "Deal Journal." Below are the most-popular tags for Dealscape. On the right of the page you will find a search box to dig deeper into our content.
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