Buyout-Loans Turn Sour
Brian Moynihan, the CEO of Bank of America, has constantly sounded upbeat about the American economy, leading the bank to provide substantial loans for the acquisitions of Twitter, Citrix, Nielsen, and other companies by private equity firms.
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