Category Archives: Private equity

US Strategy for Great Power Competition: More Graft and Hope for Wonder Weapons

Venture capital and private equity are playing a larger role in the military-industrial complex leading to even more corruption, lack of accountability and the swallowing up of young minds by the Silicon Valley money pit.

Will the American Oligarchy Accept Limits or Choose World War Three?

Putin has said Ukraine conflict is existential threat to Russia, but there are signs the Western capitalist class is dealing with their own existential crises. Will their greed get us all killed?

Financial Times Tells CalPERS Not to Go Further Into the Private Equity Haunted House

The Financial Times debunks private equity flim-flammery even as CalPERS and others sign up for more.

Private Equity Buying Up Accounting Practices. What Could Go Wrong? The Health Industry Gives Some Ideas

Private equity is setting out to hoover up accounting practices. The sorry experience in health care says there is cause for pause.

“The Algorithm Told Me to Do It”: More Price Fixing in US Rental Market

Arizona and another class action join lawsuit parade against price-setting software companies and property managers, North Carolina AG investigating.

Bizarre Valedictory Interview by CalSTRS Investment Chief, Chris Ailman, Asks Private Equity to Be Nice and Share with Workers

A revealing, and not at all in a good way, discussion of private equity by departing CalSTRS Chief Investment Officer Chris Ailman.

A Look at Private Equity’s Medicare Advantage Grifting

More on why Medicare Advantage is a criminogenic environment. And private equity has gotten in on the action.

The Billionaire Next Door Driving Up Housing Costs for Everyone

The rich are busy turning the 20th-century dream of owning your own home into the grubby 21st-century reality of renting your own home forever.

We Deserve Medicare for All, But What We Get Is Medicare for Wall Street

An overview of health care, particularly Medicare, rentierism, with private equity playing a starring role.

FTC Chief Gears Up for a Showdown With Private Equity

Over the past three years, FTC and Department of Justice officials have signaled they would apply more scrutiny to private equity acquisitions in health care, including roll-up deals in which larger provider groups buy smaller groups in a local market.

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Category Archives: Private equity

Will the American Oligarchy Accept Limits or Choose World War Three?

Financial Times Tells CalPERS Not to Go Further Into the Private Equity Haunted House

Private Equity Buying Up Accounting Practices. What Could Go Wrong? The Health Industry Gives Some Ideas

“The Algorithm Told Me to Do It”: More Price Fixing in US Rental Market

A Look at Private Equity’s Medicare Advantage Grifting

The Billionaire Next Door Driving Up Housing Costs for Everyone

FTC Chief Gears Up for a Showdown With Private Equity

New Technologies to Get Around Old Laws: Algorithms Being Used to Evade Antitrust Rules, Fix Prices and Worse

“Should CalPERS Fire Everyone and Just Buy Some ETFs?”

CIA-Connected Private Equity to Buy Italy’s Critical Communications Infrastructure

Could It Be the Fed’s Mega-QE Created So Much Liquidity That Tightening Doesn’t Work until this Excess Gets Burned Up?

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