Dept. of Irony: Blackrock to IPO?

Today’s big news is that private equity firm, Blackstone Group, may be going public. Strange that the company taking everyone private might be going public. Here’s an interview Maria Bartiromo did earlier this week with Steve Schwarzman, the head of Blackstone, and Laurence Fink, the head of Blackrock. (Stone. Rock. I’m not sure what the significance is.) (By the way, when Rock Hudson was on the Flintstones, they still changed his name to “Rock Hudstone.” Talk about redundancy! Stoney Curtis, I get. But Hudstone?)
Anywho, at the very end of the clip, Maria asks Schwarzman is he’s going to go public. He knew what was in the works, but dodges the question very deftly.
By the way, both Bartiromo and Schwarzman are on the board of the New York City Ballet. It doesn’t mean anything, I’m just mentioning it.

Posted by on March 16th, 2007 at 1:26 pm


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