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29. Cash is not good either, as the dollar will be worth less. Private equity may (or may not) be more insulated

Sat Dec 13, 2025, 01:49 PM

Dec 13

PE doesn’t sell in the same way as publicly traded stocks.
They have more inside information, shell games, and opaque maneuvers — probably able to commit fraud in legal ways. Look what they did to hospitals.
On the other hand, the move to allow 401Ks to invest in private equity will provide the owners of PE to ‘get an exit plan’ by selling off at inflated prices to uninformed investors. Especially if the PE owners also sit on boards (or their token reps do) of the managers of those retirement fund banks, or have other influence over those banks.

No safe harbor that. I know of.

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Cash is not good either, as the dollar will be worth less. Private equity may (or may not) be more insulated lostnfound Dec 13 #29

Crashes are a feature of unregulated capitalism Farmer-Rick Dec 13 #22

Do you mean get one that *doesn't* require crashes? (Typo, I think) lostnfound Dec 13 #30

Yes, yes I did Farmer-Rick Dec 13 #31

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