THIS MIGHT GO DOWN AS the year of the swashbuckling buyout. On July 24 three big private-equity players offered 33 billion dollars to snap up hospital operator HCA Inc. in what would be the biggest leveraged deal in history. But a much quieter event a few days earlier might be a better example of the excesses this era has wrought. On July 14, less than seven months after the private-equity trio of Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, Car-lyle Group, and Merrill Lynch Global Private Equity bought Hertz Corp. from the ailing Ford Motor Co. for
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机译：买断之年可能会下降。 7月24日，三大私募股权公司提出以330亿美元的价格收购医院运营商HCA Inc.，这将是历史上最大的一笔杠杆交易。但是几天前的一场安静得多的事件可能是这个时代造成的过剩的一个更好的例子。 7月14日，在克莱顿（Clayton），Dubilier＆Rice，凯雷投资集团（Car-lyle Group）和美林全球私募股权公司（Merrill Lynch Global Private Equity）的私募股权三人组不到七个月的时间里，从陷入困境的福特汽车公司手中收购了赫兹公司。
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