Smaller boxes belonging to investment banks, buyout kings and other wealthy individuals form a golden circle around the Stadium Court.

It is an issue, among many, that has the buyout kings worried.

"You know, it's ironic," said the buyout king, who spoke on the condition that his firm not be identified because he did not want to upset his investors.

Since 1978, the firm has purchased 16 businesses with combined sales of $10 billion - including some that other buyout kings scorned.

Instead, he prefers to claim his occupation as a leveraged buyout king actually benefited ordinary workers, even casting himself as one of them.

When was the last time you have heard about one of the buyout kings giving away a fortune?

AMONG Wall Street's swashbuckling buyout kings, not many words are off limits.

(Henry Kravis, the leveraged buyout king, was just named to Sotheby's board.)

Mr. Schoen said that bankers and bondholders were reluctant to lend more money to the buyout kings.

You would think that all the buyout kings who wear American flags on their suit lapels would be proud to pay a big tax bill.