Anybody talking about credit crunch ? => Who cares ? => Blackstone Group LP raised $21.7 billion for the world's biggest private equity fund, just as a global credit crunch threatens leveraged buyouts. The fund is more than triple the $6.45 billion pool Blackstone raised five years ago, and tops the $20 billion amassed by Goldman Sachs Group Inc. in April. Blackstone has already committed to spend two thirds of the new fund, the New York-based firm said in a Business Wire statement today. http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=ayBVt85k5V68&refer=home