Glenn Hubbard puts odds on good times, recession

Economist and Columbia Business School Dean Glenn Hubbard was making the rounds of summer executive education classes this morning, giving his spiel on the state of the economy. I happened to be sitting in with a class full of Chinese CEOs. Here are the three scenarios for the immediate future that Hubbard laid out for [...]

The private equity guys can’t count on the business community, but they can count on Chuck Schumer

The FT has a story about how corporate lobbying groups like the Business Roundtable and the Financial Services Forum aren’t lining up in support of their private equity brethren on the battle over how to tax private equity partners’ paychecks. And why ever would they? Corporate executives have to pay the full 35% income tax [...]