-public side of it, such
as Carlyle Group, Ripplewood and Lonestar may never be cracked.
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guess Enron-markets) is the priority here.
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I know nothing of Ripplewood except a short 10 Dec. Business Week article.
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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
and is an impossibility
Ian
I don't think Newt was ever that laissez-faire (though he did help pioneer
the Republicanization of the new economy) I think the term exists as a
great rhetorical tool for the powerful, monied and well-connected in the US
and the UK
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and these Japanese companies will have to go to
bankrupt More than 200,000 employees will be involved in their bankrupt and
layoffs will cause panic in Japan [Jannuzi: and delight for vulture
capital]
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Business Report, or
WPBT Information
presented on Nightly Business Report is not and should not be considered as
investment advice
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and of course, the Bush and Bin Ladens' investment vehicle of choice, the
Carlyle Group
AIG had a lot of money sunk into the dodgy, scheming Enron ventures everyone
is talking about
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while Japan slips into some sort of 'Italy' or 'Sweden' status Hard
to do, though, if you have no EU to tie yourself to
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Fukui, Japan
The
government and the newspapers are all wrong
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to the dollar toward about 130 to the dollar--I'm sure O'Neill
draws the line at 140)
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See the article I posted ealier but am reposting here:
YEN APPRECIATION AND ASIAN DEBT
by Prof Leonor M Briones*
Geneva 28 Oct (TWN) -- The Japanese yen started to appreciate in value
against
those wonderful 'bad' loans and billions in luchre!
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is the de facto
currency of the world It's financial markets are where everyone goes to
raise capital or to park it
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with various parts manufacturers
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a
business in Japan, you know just how easily one thing happening in the world
markets can be your ruin.
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they overinterpret 'reality' based on far too little real information
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on the world market and buying
Japanese RAM elsewhere to get around the shortages created by the quotas on
Japanese RAM! Now that was when RAM was profitable!
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and Japan postal savings. After
US Prudential took over failed Kyoei (which on the advice of Prudential
demutualized, and, surprise, surprise, who became the number one
shareholder?) here, I took my money out of insurance annuities altogether.
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!).
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by the way, is a poster child of the WB development model circa
1950-1970.
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to be positioned to profit from further
deregulation and, the holy grail, successful G3 technology.
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classroom. This is something Koizumi's predecessor, Obuchi, who passed
away quite suddenly, managed to accomplish--taking money automatically
earmarked for construction and giving it to other areas.
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tend to swing toward populist figures who promise that finally
they'll get their equal share.
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with top talent in charge, but very little invested--post-Enron problems
maybe?
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http://www.redherring.com/vc/2002/0111/947.html
Carlyle's way Making a mint inside the iron triangle of defense,
government, and industry. By Dan Briody January 8, 2002
Like
Venture Partners, an
affiliate of The Carlyle Group, Venrock Associates, and private investor Jim
Dow.
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sea
drilling from ships in places like the Caspian and a business plan that made
much of this ability. The things you can find doing searches at Yahoo
Norway!
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is apparently a botch, with an insider-rigged approval process
at the FDA that was far from kosher. Also botched is the company's ability
to manufacture large amounts of it; they've apparently only been able to
vaccinate (and possibly sicken) 4% of the military.
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a cipher. It's supposed to be so INDEPENDENT, but
once Anglo-American military concerns come into the picture, it's downright
propaganda.
I find plundering online PDFs at sites like www.enroncredit.com much more
interesting reading than anything I find in the papers anyway.
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the possibility of a trade war. We're a
free-trading nation, and in order to remain a free-trading
nation, we must enforce law, he said.
And if anything it will boost his standing on 'domestic economy' issues.
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into the
fiscal red. This did, indeed, help Japan's measured GDP keep pace , for the
most part, with the rest of the OECD during the so-called 'lost decade'.
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)?
For the past 5 years that is all the analysts at the investment banks have
done--pooh poohed everything and then said things sure to contribute to
panic. BW ' and Bremners' last year of idiocy tops it all.
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they didn't really say what Koizumi
or the BoJ should actually do about it. The yen is the no-no word, as
O'Neill already made clear.
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.
And you see such boondoggle projects everywhere, they are not unique to
Japan.
Moreover, some of the stupidest projects undertaken were done during the
bubble years, these by consortia of gov't and companies.
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.
Seems as if Japan needs to keep Bush happy about its contribution to the
war on terrorism, and yet is quite dependent on a Muslim country.
Maybe Charles Jannuzi can enlighten?
Japan foreign policy has to work in a myriad of smaller , less forceful
ways. This is why, for example, some Japanese
really going on by just making
simple connections (though the interlocking boards of so many of these firms
make you wonder which is worse: these guys doing their jobs with all the
conflicts of interest, or them not doing their jobs at all).
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If the facts of their timeline check out, then Enron was, true to its rootin
tootin Texas roots, even into exploration in Asia (though as has been noted,
they were dumping fixed assets to raise cash). Another interesting thread is
how Unocal has been interested in buying up Enron assets. And just
Maybe Charles Jannuzi can enlighten?
Well, I probably didn't do that in the last post, but I did neglect one key
bit of information.
Japan redesignated naval assets as 'coast guard' and now coast guard ships
run missions as far south as the Philippines and Indonesia.
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have
that.
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bilateral trade and financial policy from the US (which, for
example, shut Japan out of the production of processor chips and OSes for
pcs and forced financial liberalization on it), and a chronically overly
high yen have all caused it to come to grief.
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was supposed to be read as an alternative.
Always game to get silly with Greg for a bit.
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the goods.
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Postal Savings and Insurance if Koizumi is moronic
enough to continue with his plans.
I see that a similar fund that I didn't even knew existed just took over a
bank in Indonesia, shocking the people at HSBC.
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of the realities is that many Japanese
companies have undervalued stocks and are not, by US standards, that deep in
debt. But they will show up as bankrupt when the 'bad' loans are cleared. So
vulture capital, most of it US-based, is circling the drain.
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, Carlyle is one of the
largest private equity firms in the world.
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ruling. An FCC spokeswoman said the agency was
reviewing the decision, which could be appealed to the Supreme Court.
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Carrol wrote:
. Can _anyone_
read all or even most of the posts that they download each day? I can't
and won't. And as a result I sometimes can't follow a thread at all
unless the posters identify who they are quoting.
Carrol
I quoted the Washington Post article that Ian posted. Yes, I
the Superior Court decision). It's hard to believe that the Supreme Court
would not render a decision that would benefit Verizon (and so Carlyle
Group). Oh yeah, they interlock here, too.
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savings to
good use! And do any here think the great returns will benefit account
holders?
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of the 750,000 U.S. commercial buildings house
fiber.
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OK my last Carlyle-related post for the day. Just got done looking at an
image of the sort of correspondence that goes between Carlucci and Rumsfeld.
BENS is 'Business Executives for National Security', and Carlucci and Co.
are in contact with Sec. of Defense Rumsfeld about this ongoing effort
(in other words, if
you wanted to buy in you needed to show your cash on the barrelhead).
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' between the right to
hold and grow wealth and the right to rule (the privilege to get elected,
hold office, release propaganda to the media, decide what is and what is not
'true' in dominant discourse, etc.) is now near impenetrable.
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of political hedging adds synergy to the equation.
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--the 'recapitalization' of the banking system which will bring
'primitive' Japan in line with the 'universal standard', the US.
Of course it's all kind of depressing actually. I guess that is why
economics abstracted from what people with money and power actually do has
its appeal.
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Another indicative paper to read. Here's a paper that pretty much sums up
the American elite's beliefs (Dem. and Rep. parties) about Japan. What is
scary is just about every starting assumption is false, arguable, or
interest- and value-laden so as to exclude even an attempt at
objectivity--but
Just a little follow up here. Hoover's online reports about the Corus
(Anglo-Dutch steel maker) plan to sell its aluminum division (a few excerpts
follow):
Tony Pedder, chief executive of the Anglo-Dutch steelmaker, said this
relatively sanguine view of the next
) on behalf of
the politicians and their (and the economist's) investment portfolios. At
least when you say 'university academic', everyone knows to cite them and
then ignore them.
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Independent scholar
a purchase from those three metals groups run afoul of EU monopoly
law? I'm predicting a US 'private equity group' that's big on European
companies--like the Bush family's Carlyle Group?
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carbon steels business lost ￡446m. The loss was blamed on weak
demand, a sharp reduction in prices, the disruption caused by last year's
closure programme and an explosion at the Port Talbot works in which three
men were killed.
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be of crucial importance to base metals as an end to destocking
would probably add at least 5 percent to US demand for key base metals
compared with last year, it said.
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Victoria Thomson Tuesday, 19th March 2002 The Scotsman
of their catchiest songs.
Given that the real dangers to Italian democracy constantly come from the
right, the story is prime for a conspiracy theory. Again, Berlusconi
benefits most from the guy's death. Now this one story I'd actually like to
hear what Antonio Negri has to say.
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So now it looks like someone will end up with the profitable aluminum part
and that the steel part might get consolidated out of existence. Does anyone
know if Corus is placed in the 'strategic interests' of the UK?
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http://news.independent.co.uk/business/comment/story.jsp?story
disinformation about Japan and disinformation going into Japan from the
west.
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Re: Apologies
I thought that his note showed a sincere caring. He may have been
confused, but he seemed like a nice person, making a nice gesture.
On Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 04:32:46PM -0800, Sabri Oncu
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trading bloc emerging in
order to counter the unfair and non-free trade aspects of NA and EU trade
zones. A lot of this might depend if the double whammy of O'Neill and then
Bush visiting Japan actually helped them to see that enough is enough.
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?
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industry focused on adding capacity; in
the 1980s and 1990s, on improving efficiency; and then on serving the
customer. Now we need to focus on adding value that customers will pay for
and reconfiguring the industry so that its financially attractive.
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To finance and gear investments like this:
http://www.hindustantimes.com/nonfram/180800/detECO06.htm
Carlyle of US to invest $250 mn in IT sector HT Correspondent (New Delhi,
August 17)
CARLYLE GROUP, the US based leading private equity fund has decided to
invest $250 million in Indian
did I pay
good money for it in the first place?'
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all know, what's good for the Bushes and the Bin Ladens is good
for the rest of the world.
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to conclude that the software and
hardware are often out of sync.
Perhaps being out of synch is how they get us to buy more stuff?
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the extent of the project, look here:
http://www.hydrocarbons-technology.com/projects/caspian/caspian2.html
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. And in that arid
kingdom, too, the temperature is rising.
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Is it any wonder Carlyle Group found Groupe Genoyer to be a must-have? The
person who wrote this up positively 'GUSHES'!
http://www.hydrocarbonprocessing.com/archive/archive_00-03/00-03_informer-in
tl.html
Groupe Genoyer, a worldwide-leading group that manufactures steel flanges
and fittings
So the US exports price deflation in steel to the EU which then re-exports
it and the accompanying distress to E. Asia?
The US with its currency and trade bloc vs. the European one.
More of the same, though the rhetoric heats up.
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process industries (oil, gas, chemical,
petrochemical). But one of its holdings provides 'turnkey' solutions to
archaic , decadent Arab regimes who need to create a military-intelligence
apparatus (e.g., exclusive CG contracts in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait). Oh,
sorry, guess I'm editorializing.
Charles
I wonder how many more companies will have to be more honest. Will the SEC
have to take them on one by one?
http://news.com.com/2100-1033-873388.html?tag=dd.ne.dht.nl-hed.0
Qwest under fire from SEC
By Reuters
April 2, 2002, 4:20 AM PT
Qwest Communications International warned
that in my column. Does that mean I'll
never be wrong? No way. It does mean I've got no agenda other than that of
journalism. Period.
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I wouldn't emphasize the dependence on canned meat and weetabix exports as
very explanatory. Of course it might have helped had Brazil also not been
such an agricultural producer.
Even if Argentina hadn't kept pace with Australia, it offered a fairly high
standard of living as of the 1960s.
Next, consider the policies that were worked out as a solution. Actually,
the list reads like the Koizumi concept of restructuring and reform for the
Japanese economy, except the provincial banks would be the postal savings
and JA credit cooperatives.
Then consider this analysis, which is spot on in its analysis of the
merchant bank mentality that pervades the WB and IMF. Really, more and more,
I think Argentina is supposed to be the Enron of IMF/WB economics. We are
supposed to take it as an isolated case rather than indicative of the
I don't know how many of you might have come across the SEC news release
on
the Waste Management fraud but I was flabbergasted by the purple prose.
I've
never seen the phrase ill-gotten gain used so many times in a single
document. See for yourselves
Gotta wonder what took the SEC so long,
f business (regrettable because now all you find are
McD's everywhere).
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). The complete independence
hasn't been achieved because this would mean that tuition would go up to the
level of the private universities, and that would be very unpopular and
perhaps result in far fewer students choosing national and public
universities.
Educational Trends in Japan
by Charles Jannuzi
.
Japan's current climate for reform: How will it impact teaching at national
universities?
Bern Mulvey and Charles Jannuzi write from Fukui University, Japan
Last year we reported that national universities in Japan would soon be
granted their independence-- released from their exclusive ties
Cuba when I
picked up a six pack of German beer. It was delicious, ten times better than
the dreck US orange juice that floods the market here.
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http://www.business2.com/articles/web/0,1653,39358,FF.html?ref=cnet
THE BOTTOM LINE
barter transactions
Funny Money Is Alive and Well on Wall Street Companies that rely on non-cash
barter deals for revenue growth are getting taken to task. By Adam
Lashinsky, April 03, 2002
PALO ALTO, Calif.
or
misinformation as the corporate accountants, are the 'independent' ratings
agencies. BTW, has anyone but me noticed that the current US Trade Rep. (his
name is probably better known in Japan than in the US) is a merchant banker
(more on this later)?
See excellent article below.
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Levitt was the head of the SEC but rode the revolving doors into a lucrative
position at Carlyle Group, a closely held private equity firm that falls
largely outside the limited capacities of the SEC (though it's often
described as defense contractor, it's really a holding company, merchant
bank
And this piece in the LA Times covers much of the same, including textbytes
from Levitt.
CJ
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-06712jan27.story
James Flanigan: Enron Will Spur Reform but More Is Needed Some reforms of
accounting and business practices will actually be enacted, after all the
And here we have Levitt (the guy at Carlyle Group, former head of SEC)
attacking Pitt (now in charge of the SEC).
How many in the OECD are now thinking the US's approach to financial
oversight and regulation is about as rickety as its homeland security?
If Pitt and the SEC blow it, the services
, and is starting to crank up the 301 and
super 301 unilateral sanctions machine again. Time to let the Japanese know
that their place in the post-occupation isn't about to change one bit.
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for Atta and company getting to the US with so little scrutiny.
Al Qaeda types also infiltrated the Kurds.
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might well have been
responsible for Atta and company getting to the US with so little scrutiny.
Al Qaeda types also infiltrated the Kurds.
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Amazing. The lost e-mail shows up right at the time I re-send it.
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to be beneficial to US interests.
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neither China nor the US want it. Instead,
what Japan is going to get is a still overvalued yen with oil turmoil, the
last two things it needs, along with a third undesirable--an even more rigid
trade structure vis-a-vis the NAFTA and EU blocs.
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to nothing about emerging and governing Japan. But then again,
maybe they don't exist.
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, the capital that goes with wielding power, is
looking for a breakout and working the political brinksmanship for the
bottom line like never before.
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