What does Ripplewood know about running a credit bank in Japan? Pt 1
The Ripplewood plan is simple actually: use high equity valuations and
inflated asset prices in the US and an ability to operate as largely
unregulated capital worldwide to buy up and profit from distressed Asia
(Asia post
Ripplewood Pt 2
I would say that the difference this time is that most Japanese investments
in the US turned out very bad for them, while the private equity groups like
Carlyle and Ripplewood know how to make a buck It's the same way GE Capital
makes money too They aren't in Japan to re-tool the
Ripplewood Pt 3
And as things become totally bizarre and muddled (mostly because Koizumi
deregulation and liberalization are going to have immediate postive
effects), we find Ripplewood/Shinsei and its good friends, Goldman Sachs,
mixed up in it all A lot of it, by the way, has to do with what
A friend did much of the legwork on this article.
Investors lured by Enron's promises
Documents show partners enticed by insider profits
By Robert Manor, Tribune staff reporter. Tribune staff reporters Laurie
Cohen and Flynn McRoberts contributed to this report
March 3,
There are far more interesting artifacts out there on the internet that just
begged to be pieced together to see how Enron really worked. (One
interesting source has been doing google searches which return html pages
even after the pdf has been taken down.)
It would seem that traditional
I know nothing of Ripplewood except a short 10 Dec. Business Week article.
Charles Jannuzi wrote:
The public side
of the bubble still awaits deconstruction. The non-public side of it, such
as Carlyle Group, Ripplewood and Lonestar may never be cracked.
Charles Jannuzi
--
Michael Perelman
I know nothing of Ripplewood except a short 10 Dec. Business Week article.
Charles Jannuzi wrote:
The public side
of the bubble still awaits deconstruction. The non-public side of it,
such
as Carlyle Group, Ripplewood and Lonestar may never be cracked.
Well, complete ignorance would
