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A Sense of Privilege

…CEO Ralph de la Torre, & Private Equity Influence in American Health Care, Senator Bernie Sanders US Senate Chairman of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP),…

Greed killed Red Lobster

…as yet another illustration of pernicious consequences of vulture capitalism. When the private equity firm Golden Gate Capital bought Red Lobster, the chain was already beaten down by the COVID…

Albertsons Give Away

…to its private equity owner Cerberus and to other investors. The publicly traded supermarket chain Albertsons will pay a $4 billion special dividend in early November. That will occur if the SEC…

How to solve many problems

…finance. Reduce those unreasonable risk premia and you reduce those huge profits. Yes the Fed Gov would bear aggregate risk. If the economy tanked a lot of the nation’s losses…

WAPO on AIG III

…have the same impact on AIG’s book equity, in the short run the only difference is that AIG can be forced to post collateral (which can be seized in full…

Hedge Funds Get FED Aid

…FEDs view that risk premia are too high or too low. Hedge funds were not borrowing from depository institutions (in fact I asserted above that they weren’t borrowing at all)….

Who Speaks for a CDO ?

…is a problem, then it is especially tricky in the case of mortgages owned by special purpose entities which issued various debt like tranches and an equity tranche (owned by…