Tell me What's behind the Private Equity Boom?

Answer 1

No need to publish finances to regulators. There have been some articles in popular business sites, WSJ, Businessweek, and Fortune that have been saying that for months. Enormous freedom for new management from worrying about stock prices and SEC regs when they are reorganizing and redirecting things. Then when things are in better shape, they spin it off, hopefully at a really substantial profit, as some have done.