Pluralistic: Private equity rips off its investors, too (08 Aug 2024)

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Private equity rips off its investors, too: Remorseless, greedy scumbags are – unsurprisingly – also disloyal.
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Pluralistic: Red Lobster was killed by private equity, not Endless Shrimp (23 May 2024)

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Red Lobster was killed by private equity, not Endless Shrimp: Using class warfare as cover for looting.
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Pluralistic: Private equity plunderers want to buy Simon & Schuster (08 August 2023)

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Private equity plunderers want to buy Simon & Schuster: From the same parasites that infected your hospital's emergency room and sucked Toys R Us dry.
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Pluralistic: The long lineage of private equity's looting (02 June 2023)

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The long, bloody lineage of private equity's looting: Or, if you prefer, "plundering."
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