private equity
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The Curse of Private Equity & The PE Mindset
The Private Equity (PE) BS shtick is that private equity investors and managers will be driven to find greater efficiencies, and deliver better services and develop better products due to the pressure of the massive amount of debt taken on to purchase a target company. This ignores the fact that the debt is taken on… Continue reading
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Meet BlackRock, the New Great Vampire Squid
BlackRock is a global financial giant with customers in 100 countries and its tentacles in major asset classes all over the world; and it now manages the spigots to trillions of bailout dollars from the Federal Reserve. The fate of a large portion of the country’s corporations has been put in the hands of a… Continue reading