Difference between revisions of "Talk:Private equity"

Revision as of 17:23, May 13, 2024

50% of all business loans are done through private equity. Many banks are not lending to small businesses. And private equity was a needed as a source of loans to small businesses during the pandemic and its lockdowns.

Long live private equity! Down with banksters at big banks who took Troubled Assets Relief Program (TARP) money at taxpayers' expense! Conservative (talk) 19:23, June 15, 2023 (EDT)

Donald Trump funded his social media company Truth Social via private equity

"When former President Donald Trump’s fledgling social media company and its merger partner announced in December that they had secured $1 billion in additional private funds for the deal, it set off speculation about the identities of the investors.

Who were the roughly three dozen investors betting on the success of the former president’s new company? Were they big Wall Street names? Political supporters of Trump? Technology and media funds sold on the promise of a right-wing alternative to Twitter?"[1] Conservative (talk) 19:30, June 15, 2023 (EDT)

Who are these alleged oligarchs who control private equity in the USA and the world?

The article claims that oligarchs control private equity.

Who are the oligarchs who control private equity in the USA and the world?

I received some commission money from a private equity commercial lending company in 2022 so I was wondering who these oligarchs are. But frankly, I have my doubts that they exist. I did some initial poking around the internet and I found no trace of these alleged oligarchs. Conservative (talk) 22:26, May 12, 2024 (EDT)

"Little research has been done on such private lenders, according to the researchers, who note that there’s not even a standard definition of private debt. They define the funds in question as those that raise money through private equity and similar closed-end funds, then make senior loans like banks do." - With Business Loans Harder to Get, Private Debt Funds Are Stepping In, Chicago Booth Review, 2024

The Secretive Industry Devouring the U.S. Economy: Private equity has made one-fifth of the market effectively invisible to investors, the media, and regulators. The Atlantic, 2023

So as far as the big picture, I doubt there much research on who owns the private equity companies. Conservative (talk) 00:49, May 13, 2024 (EDT)

Private equity opposes Trump

Private equity generally opposes Trump, and is pro-globalism. Why was that deleted? Prominent examples include Mitt Romney and Pat Toomey.--Andy Schlafly (talk) 13:23, May 13, 2024 (EDT)