How Private Equity Is Ruining Everything - How PE Works

[appalachiablue]

- Private Equity investment strategy. (14 mins, Sept 15, 2024).
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Private Equity is investing in and buying up businesses and properties in many sectors including retail stores, businesses and real estate - apartment buildings and single family homes, mobile home parks, toll roads, hospitals, nursing homes, physician practices and medical imaging clinics. News reports outline cost cutting measures such as reducing staff, lowering wages and benefits, and cutting maintenance which results in lower quality service and care, and dissatisfaction among
employees, customers, patients and more.
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Wiki. - Private Equity (PE) is capital stock in a private company that does not offer stock to the general public. In finance, private equity is offered instead to specialized investment funds and limited partnerships that take an active role in the management and structuring of the companies. In casual usage, "private equity" can refer to these investment firms rather than the companies that they invest in...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_equity

[brewens]

1. The two biggest employers in my Idaho town have pending sales and in at least one a private equity firm

is involved and possibly both.

I might have a little bit of trouble working up much sympathy for a majority of the employees at those places that vote republican if they get screwed. Most of them voted for Romney I guarantee you. A tissue mill and a ammunition manufacturer.

[appalachiablue]

4. I hear you and the employees that are uniformed or blind will learn the hard way,

unfortunately. PE is an untamed giant growing all over the country, in many sectors. Thanks for posting.

[GiqueCee]

2. Private Equity...

... "borrowed" its business model from the Mafia. And they're just as ruthless; they just use lawyers instead of leg-breakers.

[appalachiablue]

3. Good one, sorry to say. This untamed giant is taking over the US.

[IbogaProject]

6. Really took off during the Reagan Administration

Reagan and Congress added a strong tax break for Carry Forward earnings, which don't get taxed until withdrawn from the fund. So you or I have to pay capital gains on every sale of an asset, they get to roll over a percent of their gains and over time that pool gets so large, the manager may close the regular investors out. They low tax part of our economy is up to almost 25%, and is one of several reasons that our individual tax burdens are getting so unbearable.

[alwaysinasnit]

5. k&r