“Bain Capital” on The Daily Caller

WASHINGTON — US Chamber of Commerce President Tom Donohue expressed disappointment with the attacks on Mitt Romney by other Republican presidential candidates for his time at Bain Capital. (more)

Ben Smith, formerly a reporter at Politico where he was known for being first with his scoops, may have blown one. (more)

Although Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich has been in the news of late for attacking former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney for his role at Bain Capital, it seems that Gingrich also had a paid role at a major private equity firm. (more)

There is a film about a ruthless, wealthy man who just wanted to be loved. The man bought up everything that caught his eye, but it was not enough. All he really yearned for was his childhood sled. (more)

A 28-minute Michael Moore-style attack ad ripping Mitt Romney’s business record will be released Wednesday in South Carolina by a pro-Newt Gingrich super PAC. (more)

PETERBOROUGH, N.H. — Former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman told The Daily Caller that he believes attacking Mitt Romney for laying off workers as head of Bain Capital is fair game. (more)

One day before the all-important Iowa caucuses, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney continues refusing to clarify his position on free trade with China. (more)

Yahoo! Inc., the Internet company exploring strategic options, rose as much as 4.8 percent on the prospect of a bid from a group led by Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. (more)

By the green-hued yardsticks of Wall Street, the 1990s buyout of an Illinois medical company by Mitt Romney’s private equity firm was a spectacular success. (more)

Protesters affiliated with the “Occupy” movement held a demonstration Friday outside the offices of Bain Capital, the Boston-based private equity firm once run by former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney. (more)

1.) FCIC dissenters defend bailing out Wall Street — Two reports will come out of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission today. The one written by the panel’s liberal majority will blame lax regulation and the banking industry for the collapse of the housing industry. The other, written by commissioners Bill Thomas, a former Republican congressman from California, Keith Hennessey, former chairman of the White House National Economic Council under President George W. Bush, and Douglas Holtz-Eakin, a former director of the Congressional Budget Office, spreads the blame more broadly among “investors, creditors, regulators, homebuyers, and politicians,” all of whom must take “personal responsibility.” The dissenters also defended bailing out Wall Street: “For a policymaker, the calculus is simple: if you bail out AIG and you’re wrong, you will have wasted taxpayer money and provoked public outrage,” the paper reads. “If you don’t bail out AIG and you’re wrong, the global financial system collapses. It should be easy to see why policymakers favored action–there was a chance of being wrong either way, and the costs of being wrong without action were far greater than the costs of being wrong with action.” Thank goodness we didn’t destabilize the global financial system, which might have led to really scary stuff, like high unemployment. (more)

Starbucks is taking a step that at first seems a little odd: the firm has ordered its baristas to slow down.  Instead of grinding the beans at the beginning of the day, they’re to recreate a little theater by grinding them fresh for each batch; instead of working on a bunch of drinks at once, they’re to handle only two at a time, beginning the next while the previous drink is processing. (more)

Burger King is being sold to private equity firm 3G Capital in a deal valued at $3.26bn, it has been announced. (more)

A Texas natural gas magnate last month gave $1 million to American Crossroads, a new 527 group conceived by Karl Rove and Ed Gillespie to boost Republicans headed into the 2010 midterm elections. (more)

Editor’s Note: Daily Caller High is a group of young writers cutting their teeth in the world of political punditry. This week, the authors’ reflect on events of the past few days. (more)

Michael Steele isn’t the only Republican who has had a rough time lately. (more)

Scott Brown, the Republican whose quest to win Ted Kennedy‘s seat has jolted Democrats with the possibility of losing the 60-seat majority needed to pass a health-care bill, defended on Wednesday his own vote as a state senator for mandatory health insurance in 2006. (more)