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Mitt Romney's Bain Capital Days, In 2 Stories
May 23, 2012 Bain's failed effort to build a paper empire. Also: How Bain transformed a struggling company, in five steps.
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How An Investor's Gain Can Be Your Loss
May 7, 2012 Guest columnist Dean Baker explains how many forms of investment contribute little or no value to society.
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How Mitt Romney's Firm Transformed A Struggling Company, In 5 Steps
February 23, 2012 Step 1: Find a little company that's lost inside a big company. This is the second of two stories we're doing today on Bain Capital, the private equity firm Romney helped found.
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How Mitt Romney's Firm Tried — And Failed — To Build A Paper Empire
February 23, 2012 It starts with an ordinary legal pad made by a company that's been around for more than a century. This is the first of two stories we're doing today on Bain Capital, the private equity firm Romney helped found.
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Carried Interest: Why Mitt Romney's Tax Rate Is 15 Percent
January 19, 2012 Here's an explanation of "carried interest," which allows private equity managers to pay taxes at a relatively low rate.
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'I'm Going To Buy This Company, And I'm Going To Fire These Arrogant Men.'
April 13, 2011 A long profile of the only private equity mogul ever to make a salty joke in a Planet Money podcast .
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Private Equity Titans Look To Beat New Tax Rule
May 18, 2010 Remember carried interest? It's the way private-equity bosses make most of their money — and it's taxed at a relatively low tax rate. The Senate may soon change the law so that the money is taxed at a higher rate. Perhaps inevitably, the private-...
