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Pluralistic: For-profit healthcare is the problem, not (just) private equity (13 Nov 2025)
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For-profit healthcare is the problem, not (just) private equity: Competition can't solve the hospice problem.
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Continue reading "Pluralistic: For-profit healthcare is the problem, not (just) private equity (13 Nov 2025)"
Author Cory DoctorowPosted on November 13, 2025November 13, 2025Categories UncategorizedTags antitrust, competition, economics, Elle Rothermich, healthcare, law and political economy, lpe, m4a, markets, medicare for all, private equityLeave a comment on Pluralistic: For-profit healthcare is the problem, not (just) private equity (13 Nov 2025)
Pluralistic: "The Fagin figure leading Elon Musk’s merry band of pubescent sovereignty pickpockets" (07 Feb 2025)
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"The Fagin figure leading Elon Musk’s merry band of pubescent sovereignty pickpockets": Maureen Tkacik on the monstrous corporate raider running DOGE.
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Continue reading "Pluralistic: "The Fagin figure leading Elon Musk’s merry band of pubescent sovereignty pickpockets" (07 Feb 2025)"
Author Cory DoctorowPosted on February 7, 2025February 19, 2025Categories UncategorizedTags adam conover, citrix, corporate sociopaths, coup, doge, elon musk, guillotine watch, looters, luigi mangione, marko elez, maureen Tkacik, pixsy, private equity, propublica, the american prospect, tom krause3 Comments on Pluralistic: "The Fagin figure leading Elon Musk’s merry band of pubescent sovereignty pickpockets" (07 Feb 2025)
Pluralistic: Private equity rips off its investors, too (08 Aug 2024)
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Private equity rips off its investors, too: Remorseless, greedy scumbags are – unsurprisingly – also disloyal.
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Continue reading "Pluralistic: Private equity rips off its investors, too (08 Aug 2024)"
Author Cory DoctorowPosted on August 8, 2024August 15, 2024Categories UncategorizedTags debt, dry powder, financial engineering, kkr, looters, pe, private equity, sucker at the table, tax receivable asset, tra, two-sided markets2 Comments on Pluralistic: Private equity rips off its investors, too (08 Aug 2024)
Pluralistic: Leveraged buyouts are not like mortgages (05 Aug 2024)
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Leveraged buyouts are not like mortgages: Corporate raiders and investment banks conspiring to steal companies.
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Continue reading "Pluralistic: Leveraged buyouts are not like mortgages (05 Aug 2024)"
Author Cory DoctorowPosted on August 5, 2024August 15, 2024Categories UncategorizedTags bust outs, debt, divi recaps, finance, lbos, leveraged buyouts, looting, mego, mortgages, pe, plunder, private equity, weaponized shelter1 Comment on Pluralistic: Leveraged buyouts are not like mortgages (05 Aug 2024)
Pluralistic: The reason you can't buy a car is the same reason that your health insurer let hackers dox you (28 Jun 2024)
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The reason you can't buy a car is the same reason that your health insurer let hackers dox you: When monopoly meets infosec, hilarity ensues.
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Continue reading "Pluralistic: The reason you can't buy a car is the same reason that your health insurer let hackers dox you (28 Jun 2024)"
Author Cory DoctorowPosted on June 28, 2024July 1, 2024Categories UncategorizedTags antitrust, Authenticom, automotive, blacksuit, brookfield, cdk global, Dan McCray, dealer management software, dms, frank easterbrook, infosec, matt stoller, monopoly, private equity, Reynolds, schumpeter, Steve Cottrell, trinko, trustbusting3 Comments on Pluralistic: The reason you can't buy a car is the same reason that your health insurer let hackers dox you (28 Jun 2024)
Pluralistic: Red Lobster was killed by private equity, not Endless Shrimp (23 May 2024)
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Red Lobster was killed by private equity, not Endless Shrimp: Using class warfare as cover for looting.
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Continue reading "Pluralistic: Red Lobster was killed by private equity, not Endless Shrimp (23 May 2024)"
Author Cory DoctorowPosted on May 23, 2024May 27, 2024Categories UncategorizedTags alden global capital, bust outs, class warfare, darden, david dayen, debt, endless shrimp, enshittification, food, Fortress Investment Group, golden gate, looters, luke goldstein, monopsony, olive garden, pe, private equity, red lobster, thai union group1 Comment on Pluralistic: Red Lobster was killed by private equity, not Endless Shrimp (23 May 2024)
Pluralistic: The tax sharks are back and they're coming for your home (27 Apr 2024)
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The tax sharks are back and they're coming for your home: Like picking pennies off a dead man’s eyes.
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Author Cory DoctorowPosted on April 27, 2024April 30, 2024Categories UncategorizedTags alden capital, chicago, chicago tribune, cook county, debt, illinois, immiseration, liens, predatory lending, private equity, race, racial capitalism, tax evasion, tax lien certificates, tax sharks, taxes are for the little people, the rent's too damned high, vulture capital4 Comments on Pluralistic: The tax sharks are back and they're coming for your home (27 Apr 2024)
Pluralistic: How to shatter the class solidarity of the ruling class (08 Apr 2024)
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How to shatter the class solidarity of the ruling class: Maybe we can use the master's tools to dismantle the master's house?
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Continue reading "Pluralistic: How to shatter the class solidarity of the ruling class (08 Apr 2024)"
Author Cory DoctorowPosted on April 8, 2024April 15, 2024Categories UncategorizedTags American Securities, anything that cant go on forever eventually stop, bond rating, debt, fcc, global tellink, hamilton nolan, hunterbrook media, insurance, journalism, jpay, moodys, news, Platinum Equity, prison profiteers, private equity, private prisons, saving the news from big tech, Securus, short sellers, shorts, spacs, Steins Law, the appeal, the bezzle, viapath, worth rises2 Comments on Pluralistic: How to shatter the class solidarity of the ruling class (08 Apr 2024)
Pluralistic: When private equity destroys your hospital (28 Feb 2024)
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When private equity destroys your hospital: Looters literally want to kill you.
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Continue reading "Pluralistic: When private equity destroys your hospital (28 Feb 2024)"
Author Cory DoctorowPosted on February 28, 2024February 29, 2024Categories UncategorizedTags Cerberus, florida, guillotine watch, looting, Massachusetts, maureen tcacik, Medical Properties Trust, pe, ponzis, private equity, Ralph de la Torre, Rockledge Regional Medical Center, Steward Health, too big to fail3 Comments on Pluralistic: When private equity destroys your hospital (28 Feb 2024)
Pluralistic: Prison-tech is a brutal scam – and a harbinger of your future (14 Feb 2024)
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Prison-tech is a brutal scam – and a harbinger of your future: My next novel predicts the present.
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Continue reading "Pluralistic: Prison-tech is a brutal scam – and a harbinger of your future (14 Feb 2024)"
Author Cory DoctorowPosted on February 14, 2024February 15, 2024Categories UncategorizedTags aventiv, books, bribery, carceral state, corruption, disciplinary technology, drm, enshittification, fcc, global tel link, jpay, kickbacks, marty hench, minnesota, predicting the present, prison-tech, prisones, private equity, scams, Securus, shitty technology adoption curve, the bezzle, viapath1 Comment on Pluralistic: Prison-tech is a brutal scam – and a harbinger of your future (14 Feb 2024)
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