This means that the Private Equity market is on the up. The Blackstone group and the Carlyle are similar and merely differ in their part of the market. Blackstone is for the Wall Street / International bankers / CIA and Carlyle is for the Military Industrial Complex / Army, so they both specialize in their own field, but act like vacuum pumps rapidly swallowing everything.
Robert Gates' Fidelity Investments is similar as well and they own so many corporations, that list is simply endless. And hardly anybody knows about them, because they quietly keep increasing their assets. They currently have $1.2 trillion in assets (sic!)
What probably interests you is that Blackstone was also part of the Russian Bailout:
An Interview with Al Martin, author of "The Conspirators: Secrets of an Iran Contra Insider"(PART 1)
by Uri Dowbenko
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Because of Blackstone's involvement in many high-level high-profile frauds like the Russian Bailout and the Mexican Bailout, one could assume that the company itself was a CIA "cut-out," an actual propretary of the Agency.
"No, it's not," says Martin. "They're just sympathizers. They're an asset of the agency. They're not a cut-out. They're just one of the legion of financial companies, mostly domiciled in Washington or northern Virginia, which the CIA turns to, on occasion, to launder money, or for some other illegal purpose."
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The so-called Russian Bailout followed a similar scenario. "
Follow the money, and it will lead you to the new fraud," instructs Al Martin. "The Blackstone Investment Group, even before the Mexican loan deal, was 'in the bag' as it were. Blackstone immediately set up an office in Mexico City because it knew that where there was fraud, there was money to be made. You see it three years later in 1997 when Blackstone set up an office in Mexico."
Likewise there was massive trading activity in the Far East, where the bottom- feeder investment bankers, would arrive to pick up "distressed assets," defaulted stocks and bonds for pennies on the dollar. "That was early in 1998 before things fell apart," says Al Martin, "because they knew things were going to fall apart."
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The Carlyle Group, which is Frank Carlucci, and the Blackstone Investment Group are virtually one and the same. Two different names, but they are virtually the same organization," he continues. "
All they do is ride the crest of the waves of various frauds from country to country. Before the so-called Global Financial Crisis of 1998, Blackstone and Carlyle suddenly opened up an office in Jakarta. They didn't have an office in Jakarta before because they were very friendly with President Sukarto. Sukarto gave them all sort of inside capabilities to short, or sell short, the Indonesian rupiah which nobody really had the ability to do because the currency wasn't particularly liquid. They do on a large scale on a multi-billion dollar scale what Richard Hamil does on a multi-million dollar scale."
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http://www.almartinraw.com/uri1.html Did you notice that scenario. Your investigation is exactly the same, one fraud follows the next once you start the trail. 9/11 is exactly the same and Alex Constantine is currently investigating the Conair crash it's the same scenario, one fraud follows the next like an endless trail and you'll notice that's all interrelated like a giant octopus where military, intelligence, corporations, mafia, politicians meet and it extends way beyond the United States and is more a global structure where each group knows somebody from the other group and all participate in their mutual scams.
And Blackstone, Carlyle but also Fidelity Investments play a keypart so if one of them starts to ride a wave like Blackstone is doing right now, it means that they are starting to sail on a new fraud wave.
Clear Channel is a very good example of a company which was totally inflated. It started out as a small radiostation and all the vultures jumped aboard and listed it at the stock exchange where the game began. They pumped millions into that company and since it was listed on the stock exchange it was immediately overpriced many times which allowed to swallow radiostations left and right, because if you are overpriced 30 times you can pay 29 times the worth, so it was one big vacuum pump swallowing up the market. And the reason was to have a medium outlet for the neocons and it is now swallowed by an even larger fish to become part of some sort of super structure as well.