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Bain often couldn’t lose with buyouts

By Beth Healy

 |  Globe Staff  

  January 14, 2012

Mitt Romney has long called himself a venture capitalist, and has relied on that experience in his pitch that he understands the economy better than other candidates for president. But he spent much more of his career in leveraged buyouts than in early-stage deals known as venture capital.

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