Carlyle Group

The Carlyle Group is a Washington, D.C. based global private equity investment firm with more than $30 billion of equity capital in 2005. This large pool of money belongs to just 800 individuals from all over the world, making an average contribution of approximately $37.5 million. The firm employs more than 300 investment professionals in 14 countries with multiple offices in North America, Europe and Asia. It boasts of having on its staff, 138 MBAs, 24 JDs and 14 Ph.D/MDs from many of the world?s most prestigious universities. The firm operates four fund families, focusing on leveraged buyouts, venture capital, real estate and high-yield investments.

External links

• The Carlyle Group home page
• Sourcewatch article

Articles

• The Guardian on a deal in Kuwait

Criticism

• Making a mint inside "the iron triangle" of defense, government, and industry, Dan Briody, propagandamatrix mirror
• What Did Eisenhower Mean When He Warned of a Military Industrial Complex? Take a Look at the Carlyle Group An interview with Dan Briody
• Be Afraid. Be Very Afraid: Those Spooky Carlyle Rumors, Jonathan A. Knee, page 26 of June 9, 2003 edition of The New York Observer
• Why The Carlyle Group is afraid of Stop Carlyle?
• Exposed: The Carlyle Group and VPRO Tegenlicht: Carlyle Group (uses Flash), documentary created by Dutch VPRO TV program Tegenlicht
• DE IJZEREN DRIEHOEK (Exposed: The Carlyle Group) by VPRPO Dutch television High-speed internet connection. Note: The first minute and fortyseven seconds of this program is broadcast in Dutch, The remainder is in English. Translation of the first one minute fortyseven seconds of this program: "The war in Iraq does not seem to be over at all, but in the meantime the rebuilding has already started. This has unleashed fierce competition for contracts, which are mainly awarded to American (ed: U.S.) companies. What is remarkable about these companies is that they have people on their payroll from American politics and the military. Is there a conflict of interest, or is this the new global way of doing business? -- One of the companies that operates in this manner is the Carlyle Group." On their payroll are people like : George Bush (Sr.), James Baker III and former prime-minister John Major. The Carlyle Group is a private investment bank which doesn't come to the publics attention very often but it is one of the biggest American (ed: USA) investors of the defense industry, telecom, property and financial services. What is the Carlyle Group? Who are the people behind the name? And how much power does Carlyle have?"