The PE guys will then blame “overseas competition” for the jobs stolen by their financial fecklessness, and “family breakdown” for the fact that unemployed people use drugs at a much higher rate. From Brian Alexander’s Glass House, about the debt-fueled takeover and devastation of glass maker Anchor Hocking and its… Read more
I worked at a startup company that recently got a ton of funding from a PE firm. None of the current/former investors gave them more money, which is a very bad sign. I hope they make it because their product is good, but I figure they’re going to end up getting bought at a fire sale. Read more
I work for a company that does business with others that are often PE owned. We HATE giving these companies money that doesn’t have explicit strings on it because we know that the PE firm is going to suck that money out instead of putting it toward actual business uses. Read more
The practice of private equity law is the most profitable practice there is. Except maybe defending an oil company after a major oil spill or doing the fine print for a petro state’s oil business IPO. Read more
Really great article about some people doing good work in tough circumstances, thanks Hamilton. I’ve worked with Diné people and enjoyed hiking and camping in the Navajo Nation, and hold both the people and the place in high regard. You inspired me to make a small donation to support their work and I hope others… Read more
The evangelical right has had “SUCKER” tattooed on their foreheads for as long as I can remember. The pastors of megachurches don’t fly around in private jets or live in mansions or wear Rolex’s because the love of Christ alone is financially lucrative. They do these things because their congregants are willing to… Read more
Tony Perkins and the Grahams and these larger-than-life personalities are all schmoozers too. Their God is an angry God of hatred, punishment, and selective favor, not compassion. Links up well with Trump’s militaristic play-acting and hate-mongering. Read more
I grew up Evangelical. You need to be a complete moron to buy into this idiot faith. That every single word in a book full of dead dudes coming back to life, lepers being healed, blind people be given their sight and a slew of other patent impossibilities are FACTS. (Forget the whole 6,000 year old Earth). To accept… Read more
Political Evangelicalism is a disease. I don’t understand how adherents legitimately can follow through with these people after reading things like this: it’s a group of powerful white men who have wealth in numbers that is needless, plotting how they’re helping the “little people” in a limousine, all the while fully… Read more
Considering that the evangelicals passionately believe in a magic deity in the sky who controls everything but we can’t see, hear, or detect in any tangible way whatsoever, who created the entire universe in six days, and who made a son in a virgin’s womb that came back to life after being dead for three days. I’m… Read more
Presidents who have moral failings must be embraced by Christians. Read more
Mr. Trump told him that he was writing it a six-figure check, which Mr. Graham told him to send to Mr. Perkins’s church. Both men were moved by his impulsive kindness, and a bond was formed. Read more
New York City is trash, too. Read more
The downtown riverfront area of Wilmington, NC, is delightful. Read more
Saint Augustine is lovely but probably too small for your taste.
I don’t know much about New York City, but doesn’t the above description of Miami basically apply to NYC as well?
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