Turns out that Stanley Druckenmiller, who runs hedge fund Duquesne Capital, was one of those behind the move. Page Six tells us that he wrote a $250K check to the Draft Bloomberg Joint Fundraising Committee on January 14 when Mayor Bloomberg was noodling over becoming a third party candidate.
Mike's Boosters - Page Six NY Post
Mayor Bloomberg threw water all over this morning's NY Post story that Bloomberg was interested in buying the NY Times. From Briefing.com:
10:07 NYT Summary of comments from CNBC on Bloomberg/New York Times story (19.77 +0.58) -Update-
CNBC commentator said the Mayor of New York City denied interest in buying the New York Times. Said he was 'not a buyer of other people's problems.'
That's what this morning's NY Post is suggesting. We could see why the NY Times might want to pair up with Bloomberg given its downhill slide, but why would Bloomberg want that kind of albatross around its neck? In our opinion, Bloomberg already has better reporting.
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Juat as we entered Grand Central to head home, panic ensued. Police were running for the exits. We heard someone yell "evacuate NOW", and the crowd ran like hell for the exits. No one knew why. Outside it was very sooty. Thousands of people were pouring out on to the street. We were on 42nd Street and the police were telling people to go west quickly. No one had any idea what was happening. We were able to snap a quick picture of the plume of smoke (above) with our Blackberry.
Not knowing what was going on, we did a Google search of the news. Nothing. The good news: Our Blackberry still worked with the web. *Phew*. So we went to Plan B. We logged into our Bloomberg on our Blackberry and searched the news. Et Voila. Headlines were already up on Bloomberg, at 6:12, within minutes of the explosion. They indicated that it was likely a manhole explosion or something similar. But thankfully not terrorism which we happily shared with some of the other confused evacuees.
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