Word: bub
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...Marks, chairman of Oaktree Capital Management. "Buyout firms were able to purchase venerable U.S. icons in the '80s because they could borrow 20 times their money," he notes. (Remember those "highly confident" letters, as in, "I'm highly confident I can borrow the money to take over your company, bub," that Milken and pals used so effectively to terrorize CEOs?) "If you wanted to buy a company for $10 billion, you could probably do it on $400 million in equity. You can't do that anymore. Today you get maybe 3 1/2 times your equity investment--not 20 times...