Friday, March 11, 2011
Buyout Offer of $1.34 Billion for 1-99 Cents Only Stores
A report from Reuters tells us that UPDATE 1-99 Cents Only Stores gets $1.34 billion buyout offer, as private equity firms target "dollar" stores.
Tuesday, September 21, 2010
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
Private Equity IPOs 7% Better than Standard & Poor's 500 in 1st Half of 2010
The Wall Street Journal Online (subscription required to read full article) reports that Private Equity IPOs 7% Better than Standard & Poor's 500 in 1st Half of 2010
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
State Energy Conglomerates Dominate the World of Big Oil : The Conflict between Democratic (Private) Capitalism and State Capitalism
Calling private-sector oil companies "Big Oil" is really a misnomer, since state-owned energy conglomerates now dominate the world markets. David Brooks at the New York Times discusses The Larger Struggle writing:
Crossposted from LawPundit.
"In the democratic capitalist world we have oil companies, like Exxon Mobil, BP and Royal Dutch Shell, that make money for shareholders.Hat tip to CaryGEE.
In the state capitalist world there are government-run enterprises like Gazprom, Petrobras, Saudi Aramco, Petronas, Petróleos de Venezuela, China National Petroleum Corporation and the National Iranian Oil Company. These companies create wealth for the political cliques, and they, in turn, have the power of the state behind them.
With this advantage, state energy companies have been absolutely crushing the private-sector energy companies. In America, we use the phrase Big Oil to describe Exxon Mobil, BP, Royal Dutch Shell and others. But that just shows how parochial we are. In fact, none of these private companies make it on a list of the world’s top 13 energy companies. A generation ago, the biggest multinationals produced well more than half of the world’s oil and gas. But now, according to Bremmer, they produce just 10 percent of the world’s oil and gas and hold only about 3 percent of the world’s reserves."
Crossposted from LawPundit.
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