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in2herbs

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8. My financial advisor committed me to a privately held REIT. These are nothing more than

Reply to lostnfound (Original post)

Tue Oct 29, 2024, 10:18 AM

Oct 2024

private equity investments in sheep's clothing.

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Board members at major companies forcibly replaced by billionaire hedge funds - fascist groundwork or shock doctrine? [View all] lostnfound Oct 2024 OP

Undoubtedly. 2naSalit Oct 2024 #1

Ultimately the working class pays the price jmbar2 Oct 2024 #2

Corporations today are run solely for the benefit of CEO bonuses and shareholder wealth. Lonestarblue Oct 2024 #3

The multinationals take good care of upper tier execs soandso Oct 2024 #36

This phenomenon and private equity... WestMichRad Oct 2024 #4

We are already there Dave says Oct 2024 #32

This is super important. I'm aware of what is happening. harumph Oct 2024 #5

No matter what happens on election day Nittersing Oct 2024 #6

Stop giving them your money. onecaliberal Oct 2024 #7

How do I stop "giving money" to activist investors? Nittersing Oct 2024 #9

It takes research and micro shopping locally small at all times. onecaliberal Oct 2024 #11

That's simply not reasonable to demand of 300M people Orrex Oct 2024 #18

Then you will get what you've always got. Work for the man, onecaliberal Oct 2024 #22

So will you. The difference is that I don't fool myself about it. Orrex Oct 2024 #27

If you bothered to read my comment, I'm not fooling anything. onecaliberal Oct 2024 #28

Exactly. That's the part where you're fooling yourself. Orrex Oct 2024 #29

Message auto-removed Name removed Oct 2024 #30

What topping do you want on your pizza today? sheshe2 Oct 2024 #31

I miss all the fun stuff. Orrex Oct 2024 #33

That wont be an option once they own most rentals, utilities, grocers...its a snowball that's growing lostnfound Oct 2024 #25

They don't now. But people are not able to go through the slightest inconvenience to make everything better. onecaliberal Oct 2024 #26

My financial advisor committed me to a privately held REIT. These are nothing more than in2herbs Oct 2024 #8

sounds like what they did to greyhound. mopinko Oct 2024 #10

We have to claw the public services back. onecaliberal Oct 2024 #12

i'd love to see the city buy it and make it a true welcome center. mopinko Oct 2024 #17

I called my California Assembly rep yesterday and alerted a staff member on the peril of this ... Auggie Oct 2024 #13

There was a documentary about this in the '90s wysimdnwyg Oct 2024 #14

Thank you for this important post Wild blueberry Oct 2024 #15

This is one reason I come to DU.Thank you! BattleRow Oct 2024 #16

The United States of Dystopia sarchasm Oct 2024 #19

E Pluribus Unum...or as Ben Franklin wisely said - haele Oct 2024 #34

This message was self-deleted by its author jfz9580m Oct 2024 #20

Major media will be running with this story any minute now! dchill Oct 2024 #21

This isn't anything new soandso Oct 2024 #37

I think getting rid of Citizens United would be a perfect place to start. japple Oct 2024 #23

THIS soandso Oct 2024 #38

This is important and chilling. druidity33 Oct 2024 #24

IMHO, The USA has turned into an oligarchy. n/t Jacson6 Oct 2024 #35

k&r n/t area51 Oct 2024 #39