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USS_Dauntless

(266 posts) Mon Sep 1, 2025, 07:39 PM Sep 2025

The private equity playbook, as explained by Elizabeth Warren

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The private equity playbook, as explained by Elizabeth Warren (Original Post) USS_Dauntless Sep 2025 OP

Private equity firms are fucking evil sakabatou Sep 2025 #1

Toys-R-Us would have gone out of business 5 years sooner had they not turned to PE (loansharks). Silent Type Sep 2025 #2

sakabatou

(46,151 posts)

1. Private equity firms are fucking evil

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Mon Sep 1, 2025, 07:42 PM

Sep 2025

Silent Type

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2. Toys-R-Us would have gone out of business 5 years sooner had they not turned to PE (loansharks).

Reply to USS_Dauntless (Original post)

Mon Sep 1, 2025, 08:17 PM

Sep 2025

It was their only option to shutting down and firing employees immediately when their debt was downgraded to junk.

The other companies Warren mentions were much the same. Honestly, Warren should know this just like she should have known that Obama had to show Congress trade agreements and public, which she said he was hiding. Helped give us trump in 2016.

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