Just to get an idea of how much money flows through the education industry, a report by the investment banking firm Berkery Noyes calculates that in the first half of 2011, mergers and acquisitions alone accounted for over $2 billion in education services like software and textbooks.
Politico has a piece running through the number of former Hill staffers-turned-lobbyists that hedge funds have hired to ensure that financial regulatory reform does not encroach on their businesses or slim their profits:
Hedge fund managers, Weissman said, are in the business of using inside information to make money,
The premiere lobby group representing the private equity industry has surprised many observers by staying neutral in the epic battle between business and labor over the Employee Free Choice Act, a bill that would dramatically alter the rules for forming a union.
Unions support the bill because it would More…
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