Carlyle Group is learning to manage adversity

Perched on Pennsylvania Avenue between the White House and the U.S. Capitol, the Carlyle Group has become Washington’s resident representative among the world’s corporate financial elites.

The homegrown, publicly traded private-equity firm is spoken of in the same breath as rival buyout shops such as Blackstone Group, KKR & Co. and even, occasionally, investment bank Goldman Sachs, the Wall Street gold standard.

By Thomas Heath

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