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How could this happen? After all, we now have The One (tm) in charge of the country, so what could possibly go wrong?**** **** Oh, I forgot...it's all George W. Bush's fault.**** **** And of course, the blame is shared by the evil right wing extremist millionaires/billionaires.**** **** Those lousy bastards! They'll do anything...including economic suicide...to make The One (tm) look bad!**** **** Racists all!**** **** ---**** R**** **** **** **** ** ** ** ** http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/07/09/U-S-Venture-Capital-Fundraising-Plunges-54-Worst-In-2-Years?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter **** U.S. VENTURE CAPITAL FUNDRAISING PLUNGES 54%**** **** Venture capital fundraising in the second quarter dried up as the U.S. saw the worst venture capital fundraising quarter in nearly two years.**** U.S. venture capital firm fundraising dropped 54% to $2.88 billion as 10-year returns yield 6.9% returns versus the Nasdaq’s 8.5%, reports<http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/07/09/us-venture-fundraising-drops-idUSBRE96810720130709>Reuters. **** The National Venture Capital Association and Reuters say last year 51 venture capital firms raised cash; this year that number dropped to 44.**** "Dollar values of capital under management are declining from historical levels," said <http://www.nvca.org/> NVCA president Mark Heesen. "Counterbalancing this trend is the recent uptick in the venture-backed IPO market which, if sustainable, may very well draw more dollars into the asset class in the coming year."**** The top five venture capital funds made up 55% of total fundraising.**** ** ** __._,_.__ __,_._,___ -- -- Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "PoliticalForum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
