Days of Plunder, jak private equity wyciskają resztki z firm
Days of Plunder, jak private equity wyciskają resztki z firm
Two new books call ‘private equity’ what it actually is, but neither offers much hope for emancipation from our eternal hostile takeover.
Dużo ciekawych historii o tym, jak private equity kupuje firmy i tnie koszty do poziomu, w którym ludzie tracą życie i zdrowie. I ogólnie o tym, jak można zepsuć wszystko, jeśli pozwolimy na nieograniczone czerpanie z tego zysków.
Jeden przykład:
The Carlyle Group wanted to pay its investors a billion-dollar dividend, so it pawned the real estate holdings of a nursing home chain, forcing it to cough up a half-billion-dollar yearly rent check, which was managed through savage staffing cuts that likely condemned thousands of elderly Americans to die slowly of dehydration, gangrenous bedsores, and preventable falls even before COVID-19 killed a quarter-million residents nationwide.