BizJournals Portfolio
Jan 16 2008 12:00am EDT

Extra Credit, Wednesday Edition

Citigroup, Merrill Lynch Get $21 Billion From Outside Investors: Bloomberg has another one of those handy cut-out-and-keep tables of who's invested what in whom.

Wealth and Fame: Equity Private worries, on behalf of hedge-fund managers everywhere, about the risk posed by people "running an international kidnapping cartel" and reading Bloomberg stories.

The long distance CEO: Commuting from Minnesota to Virginia in a private jet is a legitimate business expense.

Subprime or Bubble: What's the Bigger Problem?

Five Simple Steps to Becoming a Billionaire: The Greenspan Method

How Wall Street broke the free market: "When the China Investment Corp. pumps in $5 billion to Morgan Stanley, we are not witnessing the triumph of state capitalism, but rather, the embarrassing, humiliating, failure of Reagan-Thatcher style unregulated capitalism."

The Battle for Britain’s Roads

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