Breaking news: No “irony” in Blackstone IPO

The author of the world’s absolutely, positively greatest private equity blog, Going Private, has discovered that a lot of people in the “McMedia” (that is, not just me) thought there was something ironic about Stephen Schwarzman, longtime critic of public equity markets, deciding to take Blackstone Group public. Here’s her contrary take: If we view, [...]

I’d like to buy the world a döner kebab …

I was mostly kidding when I said that a döner kebab van in Leesburg, Va., represented deep truths about globalization. But then I got this comment, from one Michael Pöppelmann: I am an exchange student from Germany and currently in the United States. Doener is my most favorite food. Sometimes I even dream about eating [...]