Now It’s Official: Financial Times Profiles Venture Capital Crash
A venture capital washout is underway. Pass the popcorn.
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Hospices Have Become Big Business for Private Equity Firms, Raising Concerns About End-of-Life Care
Expect hospice care to go the way of privately-owned nursing homes, now that private equity is geting its claws into the industry.
Read more...Hubert Horan and Izabella Kaminska: Can Uber Ever Deliver? Part Thirty: The “Uber Files” Are Not the Uber Exposé You Are Looking For
The Uber Files showUber’s bad conduct was deliberate, but miss that its poor economics meant Uber engaged in a confidence trick on society.
Read more...CalPERS Cooks the Books While Taking an Unnecessary Loss to Exit $6 Billion of Private Equity Positions
CalPERS has just made an openly value-destroying sale of private equity holdings. So who at CalPERS is benefitting from this gift to buyers?
Read more...As CalPERS Doubles Down on Private Equity, New Analysis Finds CalPERS’ Private Equity Returns “Based on a Mirage;” Another Study Reaffirms that Private Equity Drags Down Performance
Yet more reasons why CalPERS needs to kick its private equity bad habit.
Read more...Buy and Bust: When Private Equity Comes for Rural Hospitals
Private equity’s emphasis on profit is “not necessarily great for the patient.”
Read more...Waste Watch: Colorado and New York Pass Right to Repair Measures
Two states, New York and Colorado, recently passed right to repair measures, covering digital electronics equipment and power wheelchairs.
Read more...A Sad Day in Kentucky: Judge Philip Shepherd Recuses Himself from Kentucky Retirement Systems Case
The big Wall Street defendants in the seemingly never-ending Mayberry v. KKR saga, over charges of breaches of fiduciary duty, fee grifting, and other bad behavior, got a big break due to a remarkably lame error by the presiding judge, Philip Shepherd. His being assigned to the case in 2017 was seen as offering some […]
Read more...New KKR Stunt in Neverending Kentucky Retirement Systems Litigation: Demanding Removal of Judge Philip Shepherd
KR is at it again! And of course, not in a good way.
Read more...Department of Justice to Saddle Up Against Private Equity Consolidation/Monopolization Plays. Will It Work?
The Department of Justice says it is taking aim at private equity. Will it hit any targets?
Read more...Your Money and Your Life: Private Equity Blasts Ethical Boundaries of American Medicine
In a harrowing new book, Laura Katz Olson exposes how private equity is taking over health care companies – and preying on human lives.
Read more...Pennsylvania Public Pension Fund Trustee Katie Muth Has to Sue to Find Out What Fund Is Investing In
Proving how deep intransigence runs among public pension fund staff, PennPSERS trustee Katie Muth is suing to find out what the fund owns.
Read more...Eileen Appelbaum and Rosemary Batt Score Important Win Against Private Equity as Surprise Billing Laws Slam KKR Grifter Envision Healthcare
A dogged effort to curb a particularly egregious private equity abuse, hospital surprise billing, bears some fruit.
Read more...The Private Equity Industry in the New Interest Rate Environment
Private equity has been a big winner thanks to a long-term trend of falling interest rates. What happens in a less favorable environment?
Read more...Financialization at Heart of Economic Malaise
Sadly, finacialization is still very much with us, even though policy-makers know better by now.
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