yellowstone club

Yellowstone Club lender gets the hardwood

by Wayne Mumford May 13, 2009

U.S. Bankruptcy Court Judge Ralph B. Kirscher ruled Tuesday that Credit Suisse’s secured claim to $232 million of the remaining $310 million loan balance to the Yellowstone Club would be “subordinated” to the claims of tradesmen, vendors and other unsecured creditors in the case. “The only plausible explanation for Credit Suisse’s actions is that it [...]

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Slicing up the Yellowstone Club pie

by Wayne Mumford April 9, 2009

Time to find out who’s going to get stiffed at the Yellowstone Club. Here’s a little who’s who gadget at Muckety.com if you are into that sort of thing.  About two clicks in on the Yellowstone Club “tree” and things start looking all to familiar… Paying the peasants is probably prudent considering the geography.

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Blood in the Water

by Wayne Mumford February 22, 2009

Edra Blixseth and the Yellowstone Club are back in the news. A warrant for her arrest has been issued in Colorado for failing to make a court date. I am guessing she’s probably in Mexico getting a cheap but massive face lift while listening to Warren Zevon singing, “send lawyers, guns, and money”… Meanwhile, back [...]

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Warren Miller’s Yellowstone Club stratification theory

by Wayne Mumford January 4, 2009

Warren Miller, ski film’s grand poo-bah and member of the financially slippery slope elite at Montana’s Yellowstone Club theorizes that “the definition that fits rich better is ‘Economic Stratification’”. Betty Crocker could build a better argument with a wedding cake but Warren’s article actually becomes the backdrop to some very interesting comments that follow the [...]

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Yellowstone Club gets another season to go downhill

by Wayne Mumford November 26, 2008

In the latest episode in Montana’s version of “Dynasty”, it looks like members of  the elite Yellowstone Club will get to ski and flutter their wealthy little feathers for at least one more winter. CrossHarbor Capital Partners, a Boston-based hedge fund,  was given the right to loan the club $20 million while it reorganizes its [...]

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Yellowstone Club bulbs getting dimmer

by Wayne Mumford November 25, 2008

“Towards thee I roll, thou all-destroying but unconquering whale; to the last I grapple with thee; from hell’s heart I stab at thee; for hate’s sake I spit my last breath at thee. Sink all coffins and all hearses to one common pool! and since neither can be mine, let me then tow to pieces, [...]

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Yellowstone Club Telethon?

by Wayne Mumford November 16, 2008

As noted by the folks over at Buster Wants to Fish, the Yellowstone Club, Montana’s elite ski and golf retreat is out grovelling for enough cash to keep the lights on- could a Bush bailout be in the offing? Probably not, the AIG retreats are over for now- and besides, its getting cold in Montana, [...]

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