Tag:

real estate bubble

Latest Headlines

Latest Headlines

Another blown up hedge fund

Here's a cautionary tale of how the real estate bubble seduced people who might have known better. Plainfield Asset Management was founded by Max Holmes, a veteran of Drexel Burnham Lambert and D.E. Shaw and an expert in bankruptcy and high-yield debt. Fortune wonders what it was thin

Will Icahn sue Apollo?

Apollo Management's timing on its Realogy deal couldn't have been worse. It bought the operator of franchised real estate businesses, such as Century 21 and Coldwell Banker, for $7 billion just before the real estate bubble burst. We've noted before that it has an interesting strategy for dealing

SPOTLIGHT: Alan Greenspan

The former Fed chief is hitting back at the critics who recently have emerged. He says the link between his policies and the real estate bubble are weak. Article (Alan Greenspan, real estate bubble)