All Posts Tagged Steve Schwarzman

News you gotta have to end your week – 1/30/09

January 30th, 2009 | 4 comments

Or your month TechCrunch’s Mike Arrington is ‘taking a break’ from blogging, and running for his life. While the latter part seems pretty serious, the editor of the venerable Silicon Valley news resource is also blaming a Wall Street Journal property and one of Nick Denton’s gossip columns for some of his woes. And if [...]

Mortgages are like radioactive noodles

May 8th, 2008 | No comments

Steve Schwarzman, on why Blackstone failed to close the PHH Mortgage buyout (via The Wall Street Journal): “Trying to buy a mortgage bank in the midst of the subprime crisis was the equivalent of being a noodle salesman in Nagasaki when the atomic bomb went off. Not a lot of noodles left, or even a [...]