Private equity stuck with 33,575 unsold businesses

private equity is destroying everything and must itself be destroyed

Won’t someone think of the poor little private equity firms unable to sell off all the carcasses of the livelihoods they’ve slaughtered 🥺

Jason, Alyssa and Anita should really stop laying off thousands of developers seasonally and stop selling their IP to private equity

Does anyone think our banks should be selling one of the backbones of retail to an American private equity firm? Our useless federal government probably does.

Have you noticed there are way more lawyer billboards and TV ads lately? Did you know that private equity—the people making the über-rich even richer while ruining everything for the rest of us—is behind it? Probably not, and that's how they want it. But we've got a chance to stop it. 🧵 (1/x)

you'd think that by now private equity would have reached corporal

8/ This is not one bad apple. Research on private equity newspaper ownership found it consistently means fewer reporters on staff, less coverage of city councils and school boards, and even lower turnout in local elections nationwide. www.nber.org/papers/w29743

wasn't there a post the other day where someone insisted that this was caused by consumers not caring about quality instead of private equity destroying everything

Data centers are a perfect example of "private equity" and "equity managers" using every trick in the book to grab lands for sale before communities understand impact. Get their local permissions (like zoning), lock it in with false promises of jobs, And we grassroots are caught with pants down

All the BS from Private Equity about their skills in picking smart investments is just crap. They are stuck with thousands of businesses that are performing badly and can’t be sold. #FreeArticle www.nytimes.com/2026/08/10/b...

In New Mexico, utility corporation executives arranged a sale of the entire utility to private equity but did it by breaking the law and got caught. www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_n...

sometimes private equity CEOs lie to sound cool on podcasts. which makes sense because podcasts are very cool

Private equity needs to be outlawed. It's theft and extortion.

Still pissed about this. Apparently they still owe over $130K in fees from last year. They have already cancelled several races this year. They knew in FEBRUARY that their permits were denied. Private equity can suck a tailpipe.

What happens when capitalism is unconstrained and shareholders’ rights & profit are prioritized above all else? We are experiencing it. “Big conglomerates and private equity were buying up ‘trusted brands and riding that reputation out until it was a husk of what it was’.”