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6. Toyz-R-Us should have just closed when their debt was downgraded to junk. In stead, they remained in business

Reply to Gaugamela (Original post)

Sat Nov 15, 2025, 12:15 PM

5 hrs ago

for another 5 years or so by turning to the only source left for financing-- private equity. Counties turn their hospitals over to PE when the county doesn't want to -- or can't -- fund them.

Private Equity is little more than a payday loan or loan shark, but somethimes that's needed even if the next to last step from ruin.

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Elizabeth Warren: Private Equity Guts Everything from Red Lobster to Hospitals [View all] Gaugamela 7 hrs ago OP

This began with Carl Ican looting TWA and showing the world how to do it. joanbarnes 6 hrs ago #1

Then Mountain Meadows Mitt Romney Submariner 6 hrs ago #4

Yep, the corporate raiders, Carl Icahn, T. Boone Pickens, Ivan Boesky, etc., started it. Gaugamela 5 hrs ago #5

Greed isn't good. Greed isn't right. Greed doesn't work. Simeon Salus 6 hrs ago #2

Private Equity... GiqueCee 6 hrs ago #3

Toyz-R-Us should have just closed when their debt was downgraded to junk. In stead, they remained in business Silent Type 5 hrs ago #6

She is right ya know. twodogsbarking 4 hrs ago #7