“The Zombie Ideas Have Won” - Paul Krugman on Trillion Geithner Plan to Buy Toxic Bank Assets Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner is preparing to unveil a plan today to purchase as much as trillion in troubled mortgages and other assets from banks. The government is reaching out to hedge funds, private equity firms [...]
Feb. 23 (Bloomberg) — Paul Otellini, chief executive officer of Intel Corp., talks with Bloomberg’s Brian Weiss about the company’s plan to invest 0 million in US technology companies over the next two years to spur domestic job growth. The investment is part of a .5 billion effort by a group of 24 venture-capital firms [...]
Feb. 10 (Bloomberg) — Jon Moulton, chairman and founder of Better Capital Plc, talks with Bloomberg's Poppy Trowbridge about the private equity, mergers and acquisitions and initial public offering markets. Moulton also discusses the US economy's strength compared to Europe. They speak at the Super Return conference in Berlin. (Source: Bloomberg)
in many parts of the world. The debate addresses the following three motions: 1) Have central bankers lost both their focus and control with respect to economic governance? 2) Have new stakeholders, such as sovereign wealth, hedge and private equity funds, become the new power brokers? 3) Do we need a new sheriff to police [...]
is preparing to unveil a plan today to purchase as much as trillion in troubled mortgages and other assets from banks. The government is reaching out to hedge funds, private equity firms and sovereign wealth funds to help buy the toxic assets. The Obama administration has described the plan as a public-private partnership, but [...]
