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For those who have actually read this far, some more research which continues to shed some light on the nuance here:

I mean, it’s not correct to say they load them up with debt and dump them as a matter of course. Lots of people being rude to me, but no one actually telling me how I’m incorrect when I say “No, PE does not intentionally try to bankrupt companies”. I can try to actually explain the business model, but I guess, what’s…

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A large company doing a LBO of another entity wouldn’t be a strategic player though; they wouldn’t be leveraging it, since they’d not do a structural setup of a PE firm for accounting purposes, so they wouldn’t use as much debt. I mean, they might finance the purchase through debt, but that’s not an LBO. To address…

That’s one. The research I posted had overview of nearly 9 studies. I’ll read yours, but do you have more?

I mean, it’s objectively not the model. They make their money back when they sell it. They make more money back when they can sell a company for a higher price. Purchasing companies don’t want to buy companies which are doing poorly.

You mean one out of the hundreds of PE deals that happen a year?

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I don’t believe the research bears that out, but am open to reading more which says so.

Ok, well, like I’ve said in other comments, feel free to find other sources of research reviews. I don’t know why I would otherwise suppose that because a company is public, they must therefore by definition act the opposite to private companies.

I also don’t know why I would dismiss the voices of those who have…

I mean, it’s objectively incorrect to say PE works via pump and dump, but if that’s your understanding of the process, you can explain how the quantitative model for an LBO works to me. Feel free to point to more research reviews as well.

Not at all.

Yes, they do add debt, but the mechanics of PE are such that they only make their money back in any real sense if they maintain revenue and pay down the debt. While this does sometimes involve cuts, reviews of research have shown that PE tends to overall be good for job growth. A PE firm *very much does not*…

I mean, pump and dump is pretty much the opposite of how PE firms work, and reviews of research have shown that PE investment is good for both productivity and job growth across markets, but sure.

Can’t say I’m a huge fan. Sure, BCS is fantastic, but the weakest parts of it are the inelegant flashes of “hey remember BB?” that we get from time to time. Considering the ending of BB and the lack of familiarity these two had with Jimmy starting out, I expect this to be more “it’s Tio’s bell!” than “Lalo Salamanca…

Big “I sleep in a racing car” energy.

Boggles you fiend, what does it mean!?

3D multiplayer rogue-lite sounds hilariously off-base from what made the original appealing.

Speaking as someone who has played Starcraft for more than 2 decades and watched it at the pro level for half of that time, SC2 is absolutely impenetrable to a non-versed watcher. That people can ascertain 2 armies moving around does almost nothing to alleviate their confusion of what those armies consist of or why…

There is no room for skillful improvement in Radahn.