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July/August 2008

Issue 277


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    Private Equity Exposed

    Orlando Segura, Jr.

    A former insider answers the questions: How do private equity firms make money? How do private equity firms affect the distribution of financial risk in society as a whole? And how does the regulatory landscape in the United States give private equity firms an advantage in the market? | Order this issue or subscribe.

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    The Global Oil Market

    Paul Cummings

    Why are oil prices skyrocketing? Many economists and business analysts like to talk about "the fundamentals": supply (constrained) and demand (strong). But in fact the so-called fundamentals tell us little about why oil prices are rising rapidly. | Order this issue or subscribe.

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