Poetry News · @haikubot
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Praise be to Carlyle Group,
For the live events business they scoop,
A sale could come true,
What a splendid view,
A two-billion dollar grand swoop!

reuters.com/markets/deals/carl

#carlylegroup #nepgroup #liveevents #businesssale #ode #poetry

Last updated 1 year ago

jackhutton · @jackhutton
1161 followers · 8569 posts · Server mstdn.social

“A 2021 nursing home study published by the National Bureau of Economic Research [..] showed nursing homes owned by private equity firms experienced 10 % more resident deaths than occurred in facilities not owned by private equity. Some twenty thousand additional lives were lost at private equity–backed nursing homes during the years studied of 2005 to 2017..”

These Are the Plunderers
Gretchen Morgenson & Joshua Rosner

#predatorycapitalism #carlylegroup #nonfiction #bookstodon #privateequity

Last updated 1 year ago

Cory Doctorow's linkblog · @pluralistic
41128 followers · 41058 posts · Server mamot.fr

Tkacik says these books show that we're finally getting wise to PE. Back in the Clinton years, the PE critique painted the perps as sharp operators who reduced quality and jacked up prices. Today, books like these paint these "investors" as the monsters they are - crooks whose bust ups are crimes, not clever finance hacks.

Take the , which pioneered nursing home rollups. As Carlyle slashed wages, its workers suffered - but its elderly patients suffered more.

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#carlylegroup

Last updated 1 year ago

Bongolian · @Bongolian
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Nina Lakhani: A leading private equity firm claimed to be a climate leader – while increasing emissions: The Carlyle Group’s 2011-22 greenhouse gas footprint was roughly equivalent to Alaska’s ‘carbon bomb’ Willow drilling project


theguardian.com/environment/20

#carlylegroup #greenwashing #ClimateChange

Last updated 2 years ago

What Would Steve Dew · @SirFahrenheit
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Anyone considering the Virginia gubernatorial election to be a defeat of neocons/Democrats/deep staters/progressives is being naive & ignorant.

#carlylegroup

Last updated 3 years ago