A monthly email providing news from the world of private equity.
Notable Notes
...“The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team.” - John Wooden
..."It is amazing how much you can accomplish when it doesn't matter who gets the credit." - Harry Truman
The rise of tech, the decline of oil and more private...
It was another year full of headline-grabbing buyouts and massive new funds for the US private equity industry. As we all know, it was also a year full of unexpected and unprecedented events. The arrival of the coronavirus crisis in March had an...
Texas leads latest US population estimates; California...
Texas' population continues to explode as people move to the state in droves. According to the U.S. Census Bureau's 2020 population estimates, Texas added the most residents of any state this year, while California's population took a major hit....
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell continues to stump for more economic "stimulus," yet on Wednesday the Federal Open Market Committee mainly stood pat. Even more telling, the FOMC's members again revised up their predictions for the economy...
Why Blackstone and other private equity giants are...
Private equity gets lots of attention for gobbling up assets of all types, from fast-food chains to red-hot tech companies. Less fanfare perhaps has followed the industry's growing hunger for, of all things, warehouses and other industrial real...
