.....its a leverage buyout.  You take on a bunch of debt to pay for a company, then when you buy it, you transfer the debt onto the purchased company.  This is typically what venture capitalism does.  Buy a company saddle it with the debt used to buy it, strip it for profit, pay off the execs and then go bankrupt. …

They got pushed out of the S&P500 ESG index.  They are still very much a part of the S&P 500

Knives out Too: Grecian Boogaloo.  Feels nice winning the interwebs today.

We ll see.  The rich tend to only suffer paper losses.  He was borrowing against his paper assets in the first place. Its like people think Trump would face consequences eventually...despite like 50 years of him not.

Apple actually produced a product.  Their company isnt dependent on government subsidies.

This. He tries to play himself off as some kind of real life Tony Stark. He is a Gen X version of Trump who took longer to get famous (Trump was playing celeb tabloid garbage in the 70s and 80s, musk it took till tesla was a household name...you know after he got hair plugs and ditched his pre billionaire wife). He…

so are mallowmars.  I mean you had a wave of restaurants putting truffel oil on things because they could charge out the nose for it and people thought it sounded fancy.  Or places making burgers out of waygu...as if that is something worth spending money on.  Its a kobe beef burger.  Just get usda choice chuck, dont…

Crypto needs a lot of regulation.  The sheer amount of pump and dump is insane.  We literally had to ban that in the stock market.  The crypto markets are basically unregulated markets....that anyone would actually ascribe any value to a bitcoin is simply amazing.  What is backing it?  Absolutely nothing.  At least a…

old money complaining about new money is hardly new.  You can literally find records of it going back to the Roman Republican Era, im sure there is similar records in China at the time.  Rich Elites dont like having to share power with others, regardless, they also get worried that the new money will push them…

Rich people always want to eat what others cant afford.  Back in the middle ages white bread was a sign of money, since it took extra effort to refine the flour to get white bread.  Its also far less healthy for you.  Sugar was initially expensive too.  Caviar was cheap, then it became fashionable to have only beluga…

It would be hilarious....except its actually an indictment of late stage crony capitalism that exists in the US and most Western market economies.  The wealthy recovered very quickly from the 2008 crash.  The 2008 recession ended in March 2009, as per usual, asset holders were the first to recover.  Those who bought…

im not sure what people expected.  They arent going to put HZD or Ratchet on it yet.  They expect people to pick up copies when they get their hands on a new console.  Not having the ps5 versions of spiderman is the miss.  

Musk, Bezos, most of the ultra wealthy.  Its how they now avoid paying taxes.  I dont see how anyone who has ever taken a federal income tax law class could ever argue that the tax code isnt geared to the wealthy with any honesty.  It is just nuts.  

I dont know...go to Camden, NJ, Compton, or Crenshaw, or parts of detroit, or st. louis, or houston, or miami, or on and on.  Police come in and bust drug dealers but do little to nothing in the way of community policing.  There has been so much racist behavior on the part of the police forces that residents do not…

Metroid games dont typically sell all that well. Hell i think Metroid Prime 4 would have been cancelled, except Metroid is a marquee name for Nintendo in the US. I mean think about the fact that firemblem has had 9 games released in the US (not counting dynasty warriors clone, and counting 3 houses just the once time)…

never?  Nationally, maybe not.  But definitely could see 100% vegan stores popping up.

That may not matter.  Beef prices have been rising fairly steadily for a while now.  With income stagnation, which continues in real terms...beef is going to keep being pricey and increasingly out of reach.  Droughts and weather in the cattle producing areas are going to keep causing issues.  I dont think beef is…

some fantasy world where the US cuts subsidies to agro business....

Square doesnt understand the gaming market anymore.  They kind of lucked into FF14.  They had to redesign and relaunch it.  Their bread and butter is evaporating in Japan.  For the west...FF, some DQ, and KH...not much else is going to resonate.  People talk about loving secret of mana...but those games do just ok in…

pretty much.  They have a lot of IP and a lot of devs...but i think legacy of kain was never coming back.