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Arizona Senator John McCain to campaign for him there. To try to attract conservatives who worry he is a moderate, Romney has been playing up his record as governor of Massachusetts, where he balanced the state's budget. He is talking less about his...
In this role, Harris will focus on early and growth stage investments in the financial services sector and will lead the firm’s New York City office. “Matt is one of the best investors in the financial technologies sector and we couldn’t be more...
U.S. Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney (R) and former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton (L) share a laugh with a Marine veteran during an event with war veterans in Hilton Head, South... View Photo »
We will see in 2012, how smoothly gears change from [Webmedia to Bain Capital Ventures]. Looking from inside, I like the joyful geek-culture that can be seen beyond the borders of ZeroTurnaround; a team with 50-100 people is just about the size where soft values and unique culture helps the company go f...
In the debates and on the airwaves, Gingrich was depicting Romney as a wealthy, out-of-touch Wall Streeter more concerned with making a lot of money than with helping his fellow Americans. Romney’s years with Bain Capital became an issue, and he was...
"From the ruthless, Darwin-based capitalism of the pre-Depression era in America to temperate capitalism practiced on Biblical principles, religion retains its inextricable ties to economics," Nosotro said. Gary North, however, said on his financial...
He’s also made much of the dangers of government “picking winners and losers” when they give subsidies to companies. But the private equity firm he founded and ran took full advantage of such government goodies. Last month the LA Times ran a good piece...
U.S. Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney (C) sits with U.S. Senator John McCain (R-AZ) at an event with war veterans in Hilton Head, South Carolina January 13, 2012. Charges that Romney's private equity firm... View Photo »
Mitt Romney has a secret ... As head of Bain Capital, he bought companies, carved them up and got rid of what he couldn’t use.
In other words -- surprise, surprise -- he wanted the banks to win, not the union -- not, that is, the workers. When Romney says he wants the free market to do what it does best, he must be referring to the sort of vulture capitalism over which he...
California-based executives of Bain have proved the biggest single source of Romney’s individual donations: 48 have combined to donate $48,850. The total includes employees of both the consulting firm and the investment bank Bain Capital, where Romney...
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U.S. Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney (R) and former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton (L) share a laugh with a Marine veteran during an event with war veterans in Hilton Head, South Carolina January 13, 2012. Charges that...
View Photo »U.S. Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney (C) sits with U.S. Senator John McCain (R-AZ) at an event with war veterans in Hilton Head, South Carolina January 13, 2012. Charges that Romney's private equity firm Bain Capital got rich by buying and...
View Photo »U.S. Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney is pictured alongside war veterans in Hilton Head, South Carolina January 13, 2012. Charges that Romney's private equity firm Bain Capital got rich by buying and selling companies are winning the former...
View Photo »GOME Chairman Zhang Daizhong listens to a management staff during an interview with Reuters at his office in Hong Kong September 1, 2011. GOME Electrical Appliances Holding Ltd, China's second-largest appliances distributor in which Bain Capital owns a 9.9 percent stake, said on...
View Photo »GOME Chairman Zhang Dazhong poses at his office during an interview with Reuters in Hong Kong September 1, 2011. GOME Electrical Appliances Holding Ltd, China's second-largest appliances distributor in which Bain Capital owns a 9.9 percent stake, said. on Thursday that the U.S. private...
View Photo »U.S. Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney (R) and former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton (L) share a laugh with a Marine veteran during an event with war veterans in Hilton Head, South Carolina January 13, 2012. Charges that...
View Photo »We will see in 2012, how smoothly gears change from [Webmedia to Bain Capital Ventures]. Looking from inside, I like the joyful geek-culture that can be seen beyond the borders of ZeroTurnaround; a team with 50-100 people is just about the size where soft values and unique culture helps the company go f...
Mitt Romney has a secret ... As head of Bain Capital, he bought companies, carved them up and got rid of what he couldn’t use.
You know what’s killing this country? The government’s killing this country, not Bain Capital and not the private sector.
I visited Georgetown, South Carolina. It was one of those towns where there was a steel mill that [Romney’s firm Bain Capital] swept in, they picked that company over and a lot of people lost jobs there.
Mitt Romney says he's for corporations. But Mitt Romney has a secret: As head of Bain Capital, he bought companies, carved them up and got rid of what he couldn't use. If Mitt Romney really believes 'Corporations are people, my friend,' then Mitt Romney is a serial killer. He's Mitt the Ripper.
If you are a victim of Bain Capital’s downsizing, it is the ultimate insult for Mitt Romney to say he feels your pain when he caused it
Edward Conard, a former colleague of Mitt Romney's at Bain Capital, gave the Republican front-runner a $1 million contribution. Jeffrey Katzenberg, CEO of DreamWorks Animation, gave President Obama $2 million. And Las Vegas casino magnate Sheldon Adelson gave GOP candidate Newt Gingrich $5 million.
Romney’s goal as a corporate raider for Bain Capital was never job creation — it was putting profits over people by bankrupting companies, outsourcing jobs and laying off workers
You really can't survive in private equity without a positive reputation, and I would say Bain Capital has one of the best reputations in the country
Former Utah governor Jon Huntsman, referring to Romney’s work running Bain Capital, which specialized in leveraged buyouts of existing companies, said ‘Private equity, like Bain, traditionally has not been famous for expanding the economic base - manufacturing has been.’
taking some heat, and he hasn’t been doing particularly well. He’s been taking heat on the one issue that I do think he is actually vulnerable on, and that's Bain Capital.
So, if you feel like the media has been telling you on conservative talk radio that Romney is the nominee -- it could have something to do with the fact that Romney's company, Bain Capital, owns them.
I happen to think that companies like Bain Capital could have come in and helped these companies, if they truly were venture capitalists. But they're not. They're vulture capitalists.
Even a noted conservative like Newt Gingrich thinks Mitt Romney cost people jobs when he ran Bain Capital.
greed is good ... There is at least a whiff of Gordon Gekko in his time at Bain Capital, a private equity firm; he was a buyer and seller of businesses, often to the detriment of their employees, rather than someone who ran companies for the long haul.
The bigger funds such as Bain Capital, KKR and Blackstone have done it in the past because they could afford getting bigger people on board, but today even smaller growth funds are doing it
Three former factory workers featured in a film about layoffs at companies bought by Mitt Romney's Bain Capital say they weren't laid off by Bain, as the film implied, but got promotions and raises after Bain bought the plant they worked in.
The audience at a presidential forum [in Charleston] Saturday booed Newt Gingrich for criticizing Mitt Romney’s record at Bain Capital after Mike Huckabee , the host, told the crowd that candidates would not be allowed to attack each other
A day after saying he wouldn't back down on criticizing Romney’s tenure at Bain Capital, Gingrich visited a town allegedly affected by Bain, and did not mention Romney or Bain at all, instead talking about the importance of bringing manufacturing back to South Carolina
As the grandson of a coal miner, who grew up in public housing in a steel town in Western Pennsylvania ... a much better chance of winning those states than an executive from Bain Capital.
Romney's private equity firm, Bain Capital, bought companies and often increased short-term earnings so those businesses could then borrow enormous amounts of money. That borrowed money was used to pay Bain dividends.
Why don‘t we talk about that since that was Howard’s question. Bain Capital engaged in public-private partnerships, for example, the ad that Mitt Romney just ran in South Carolina featuring a steel mill. That steel mill got $37 million from the state of Indiana and subsidies
We were doing well and then Bain Capital bought us and they took everything they could out of the company without making the investments we needed to stay competitive
If he attacks me (for Bain Capital), I’ll point out that’s what he did ... He’ll say he did that to save the country That’s the same reason we cut back as well, was to save the company.
