By Robert McHenry
On Mitt Romney, Bain Capital, and modern political discourse.
What lessons on student loans can be learned from the searing national misadventure with mortgages?
There are provocative parallels between student loans and the mortgages that created the disastrous housing bubble. In both cases, the government promoted plausible goals— higher education and ...
Distressed asset buyers are either ruthless or go bust, and government entities have no business co-venturing with them.
Rent is suddenly the rage for solving the housing debt crisis—and vulture capital with it. But the ambivalence conjured up by private equity magician Mitt Romney, who has simultaneously ...
The NTSB, cell phones, and regulatory hyperbole.
A recent announcement by the National Traffic Safety Board (NTSB), the federal agency responsible for traffic safety and investigating traffic-related accidents, recommended that all states ban ...
Kodak, Rochester, and the decline of the industrial northeast.
One technology replaces another only when it is better or cheaper or both. The automobile, for instance, was so much more versatile, safe, and easy to use than the horse and buggy that, once Henry ...
A fair settlement could facilitate the restart of lending and help accelerate the repair of the housing sector. But if ...
Media reports indicate that banks are poised to reach a settlement with the federal government and state attorneys general over bad mortgage lending practices. Headlines focus on the topline dollars ...
Perhaps the only effective remedy for the all-too-human temptation to hubris among the spectacularly gifted, especially ...
Many Americans today are pondering the same profound religious questions that confronted the great thinkers of the past, and all because of one highly successful and devoutly religious NFL ...
The companies Bain Capital funded under Romney have created tens of thousands of jobs using any measure.
Editor’s note: See yesterday’s article “How to Think about Private Equity” for a primer on this issue. Given the political controversy over private equity and Mitt ...
If the overall pattern is so positive—for investors, companies, and even employment—why is private equity so ...
Interest in the private equity business has exploded with the intense scrutiny of Mitt Romney’s experience as a private equity investor. Some of the discussion has been confused and confusing. ...
Our egalitarian feelings were forged in the Stone Age. But the cave man ethos is not always appropriate in the context ...
Man will become better when you show him what he is like. — Anton Chekhov. They’re the 99 percent. They have a set of demands as clear as the streets they occupy. They’ll hold a ...
Why do public employees get a generous deal that is available pretty much nowhere else and to no one else?
USA Today reports that “government workers in 21 states are using an obscure perk to retire early or to boost their annual pensions by thousands of dollars, which can cost taxpayers millions ...