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2 Feb 2012, 10:35 am by By KEVIN ROOSE
As the political attacks on Mitt Romney's record at Bain Capital have intensified, some buyout giants are punching back, including Hamilton James of Blackstone. [read post]
2 Feb 2012, 5:29 am by Glenn Reynolds
DYER: God And Bain: What bothers some people about Bain Capital is a problem with government, not business. [read post]
30 Jan 2012, 10:51 am by Ray Mullman
It also airs of clip of him denying at a GOP debate this month — to Gingrich — that Bain Capital did any Medicare business. [read post]
30 Jan 2012, 4:55 am by By EVELYN M. RUSLI
With its new fund, the firm plans to stay the course, using its traditional strategy of making investments in areas like enterprise technology, e-commerce and health care. [read post]
30 Jan 2012, 1:13 am by Paul Caron
Wall Street Journal, Tax Rule Opens Rich Vein for Debate: Romney's Favorable Treatment for Some Bain Income Draws Attention to Murky Reaches of IRS Code: The application of a favorable tax treatment to some of Mitt Romney's income from Bain Capital, which drew attention when he released his tax returns... [read post]
28 Jan 2012, 9:13 am by Buce
  Here's James Kwak, who says he is much less bothered by Mitt's time at Bain than he is by his current positions--all 180 degrees out from  those he embraced as governor of Massachusetts. [read post]
28 Jan 2012, 7:23 am by Glenn Reynolds
Elliott, Pete, John, and everyone else are right to raise the question of whether Newt’s peripatetic speculations and outbursts give us ample cause to doubt an affirmative answer; certainly his opportunistic attack on Bain Capital a couple weeks back was deeply imprudent. [read post]
27 Jan 2012, 8:09 am by James F. McDonough, Jr.
Romney’s position at Bain Capital,  if he had no foreign accounts. [read post]
25 Jan 2012, 5:45 am by Glenn Reynolds
“The companies Bain Capital funded under Romney have created tens of thousands of jobs using any measure.” Of course, anything that isn’t measured in the negative millions would be an improvement over Obama’s record. [read post]
25 Jan 2012, 4:59 am by Daniel Shaviro
And this may be especially true for private equity, quick-turnaround firms like Bain (wholly aside from the issue of what one thinks of Bain's activities).Let's take 3 cases in which a private equity firm swoops in, buys a company for a low price, and then reaps large profits by selling it for a high price.Case 1: They figured out how to make the company more efficient and profitable. [read post]
25 Jan 2012, 3:00 am by LindaMBeale
  And he is still earning "carried interest" from Bain Capital to the tune of multiple millions a year--that's a share of the profits of a partnership he managed, treated as though it were a return on an investment of capital though it is paid for services. [read post]
24 Jan 2012, 5:04 am by Daniel Shaviro
In other words, for 2009, his capital losses exceeded his capital gains (including from the Bain carried interests) by $4.8 million. [read post]
23 Jan 2012, 12:33 pm by Victor
  Because much of the profits allocated to Bain are capital gain, the income is mostly taxed at the long-term capital gains rate. [read post]
23 Jan 2012, 3:01 am by Paul Caron
Whatever you call what Mitt Romney did at Bain Capital, it is now a multi-pronged challenge to his presidential aspirations. [read post]
21 Jan 2012, 3:35 pm by Jeralyn
The New York Times says voters didn't have much of a reaction to attacks on Romney's Bain Capital: About two-thirds of South Carolina primary voters said they had a generally positive view of Mr. [read post]
19 Jan 2012, 11:06 am by Victor
His IRA probably got so fat through its investments in Bain Capital, the Journal reports, pointing out that it’s possible Romney avoided paying a large tax when his IRA invested in the private-equity fund by using offshore accounts. [read post]
19 Jan 2012, 6:13 am by Jeralyn
The accounts have names like Bain Capital Fund VIII. [read post]
19 Jan 2012, 5:03 am by Glenn Reynolds
NARRATIVE FAIL: Democrats receive more Bain Capital dollars than Republicans. “Democrats have accepted more political donations than Republicans from executives at Bain Capital, complicating the left’s plan to attack Mitt Romney for his record at the private equity firm.” [read post]
18 Jan 2012, 2:31 pm by Victor
Under pressure from his Republican opponents, former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney yesterday abandoned months of resistance and said he would make his 2011 tax return public in April.The hesitation to disclose is understandable given that Romney, one of the richest men to seek the presidency, probably benefits from a controversial tax break that allows him to pay a lower rate than do millions of American wage-earners whose votes he’ll need to capture the White House.That’s because… [read post]