“ Many of the funds that show up on Romney’s tax returns but not his financial disclosure are affiliated with Bain Capital, the Boston-based private equity firm he ran for 15 years. Several others are apparently unrelated offshore entities such as Babson 2006-1, which is based in the Cayman Islands, and Barracuda Investments, which has an address in Dublin, Ireland, but appears to be owned by Golden Gate Capital, a private equity firm based in San Francisco.
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Romney tax returns detail funds not included in ethics forms - Los Angeles Times (via)
I for one welcome our new world leader pretend/overlord of foreign (in)direct investment. Somebody needs to pay for all those brass plaques!
(since the company address is in Dublin 4, and the loosely-regulated Irish financial sector has attracted the term ‘the Wild West of Europe’, then Flann O’Brien writing about Ringsend cowboys in At-Swim-Two-Birds might have been especially prescient)
