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Nonilex
@Nonilex@masto.ai  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

With little public scrutiny, the #Trump admin is handing out hundreds of billions of dollars in tax cuts to some of the country’s most profitable companies & wealthiest investors.

The #Treasury Dept & #IRS, through a series of new notices & proposed #regulations, are giving breaks to giant #PrivateEquity firms, #crypto companies, #foreign #RealEstate investors, #insurance providers & a variety of multinational #corporations.

#aristocracy #plutocracy #WealthGap #law #USpol

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Nonilex
@Nonilex@masto.ai  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

How the #Trump Administration Is Giving Even More #TaxBreaks to the #Wealthy

The #Treasury Department & #IRS are issuing rules that provide hundreds of billions of dollars in tax relief to big #corporations & the #ultrarich.

#law #SeparationOfPowers #aristocracy #plutocracy #WealthGap #USpol
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/business/trump-administration-tax-breaks-wealthy.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

https://www.nytimes.com

How the Trump Administration Is Giving Even More Tax Breaks to the Wealthy

Nonilex
@Nonilex@masto.ai replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

With little public scrutiny, the #Trump admin is handing out hundreds of billions of dollars in tax cuts to some of the country’s most profitable companies & wealthiest investors.

The #Treasury Dept & #IRS, through a series of new notices & proposed #regulations, are giving breaks to giant #PrivateEquity firms, #crypto companies, #foreign #RealEstate investors, #insurance providers & a variety of multinational #corporations.

#aristocracy #plutocracy #WealthGap #law #USpol

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Randahl Fink
@randahl@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

I feared this day would come:

Trump puts human rights organisations on sanctions list and forces YouTube to delete their accounts, thereby erasing 700 videos documenting Israeli war crimes.

As a political commentator on YouTube, this news is profoundly troubling for me. And yes, I clearly need a plan B.

https://theintercept.com/2025/11/04/youtube-google-israel-palestine-human-rights-censorship/

The Intercept

YouTube Quietly Erased More Than 700 Videos Documenting Israeli Human Rights Violations

The tech giant deleted the accounts of three prominent Palestinian human rights groups — a capitulation to Trump sanctions.
Billy Smith
@BillySmith@social.coop replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

@randahl

I would have suggested Vimeo, but a couple of months ago, it was bought by a #PrivateEquity fund.

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Greg Lloyd
@Roundtrip@federate.social  ·  activity timestamp last week

⭐️⭐️⭐️ Interview with two who recognized the sub-prime crisis and ran ‘The Big Short’ for real.

“Michael Lewis speaks with Greg Lippmann, formerly a bond trader at Deutsche Bank, made famous when he was portrayed by Ryan Gosling in the movie version of The Big Short. And Lewis catches up with Steve Eisman, the Wall Street investor who was played by actor Steve Carell.”

#movies #BigShort #podcast
https://overcast.fm/+AA5Jd4bfg9s

Greg Lloyd
@Roundtrip@federate.social replied  ·  activity timestamp last week

🧵Steve Eisman ‘Big Short’ interview

Michael Lewis: Do you see anything going on in the banking system that worries you?

Steve Eisman: [The Private Equity is world is multiples bigger. No one really knows what’s going on there and it hasn’t been stress tested like the banking system] If there’s a problem that emerges, I think it’ll emerge from there.

#BigShort #privateequity
https://overcast.fm/+AA5Jd4bfg9s/24:20

The Short Sellers — Against the Rules: The Big Short Companion — Overcast

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jbz
@jbz@indieweb.social  ·  activity timestamp last month

💰 Reports: EA set to be sold to private investors for up to $50 billion

「 with Silver Lake, Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund (PIF), and Jared Kushner's Affinity Partners reportedly interested in investing. The Wall Street Journal says the move "would likely be the largest leveraged buyout ever." 」

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/09/reports-ea-set-to-be-sold-to-private-investors-for-up-to-50-billion/

#gamedev #leveragedbuyout #privateequity

Ars Technica

Reports: EA set to be sold to private investors for up to $50 billion

Saudi investment fund, Jared Kushner are reportedly among the interested buyers…
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Bích-Mây Nguyễn :verified:
@bicmay@med-mastodon.com  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

"Patient deaths have been found to increase in U.S. hospitals after being acquired by private equity firms, according to one study.

The death rates rose in the emergency departments of these hospitals, in comparison to similar hospitals not acquired by private equity, the study says."

https://www.newsweek.com/er-patient-deaths-us-hospitals-private-equity-2133777

#healthcare #hospitals #ER #EmergencyMed #PrivateEquity #medicare #mortality #business #industry #research

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Bích-Mây Nguyễn :verified:
@bicmay@med-mastodon.com  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

"Patient deaths have been found to increase in U.S. hospitals after being acquired by private equity firms, according to one study.

The death rates rose in the emergency departments of these hospitals, in comparison to similar hospitals not acquired by private equity, the study says."

https://www.newsweek.com/er-patient-deaths-us-hospitals-private-equity-2133777

#healthcare #hospitals #ER #EmergencyMed #PrivateEquity #medicare #mortality #business #industry #research

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Pauline von Hellermann
@pvonhellermannn@mastodon.green  ·  activity timestamp 4 months ago
#FollowTheMoney 🧵64/n The article made me think once again about Monopoly, and how perfectly it captures what the world is like. Originally called “the Landlord Game”, it was invented in 1903 by left-wing feminist Lizzie Magie who wanted to expose how rentier capitalism works through a game. She more than succeeded but - this being capitalist US - never got the credit for it. Interesting piece about it all here.

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/apr/11/secret-history-monopoly-capitalist-game-leftwing-origins

#privateequity#Assets#Monopoly

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• This article is more than 10 years old
The secret history of
Monopoly: the capitalist
board game's leftwing
origins
In 1903, a leftwing feminist called Lizzy Magie
patented the board game that we now know as
Monopoly - but she never gets the credit. Now a
new book aims to put that right
Screenshot of top of article Годонон MONA МОНОРОС + OPOLY Monopoly • This article is more than 10 years old The secret history of Monopoly: the capitalist board game's leftwing origins In 1903, a leftwing feminist called Lizzy Magie patented the board game that we now know as Monopoly - but she never gets the credit. Now a new book aims to put that right
Screenshot of top of article Годонон MONA МОНОРОС + OPOLY Monopoly • This article is more than 10 years old The secret history of Monopoly: the capitalist board game's leftwing origins In 1903, a leftwing feminist called Lizzy Magie patented the board game that we now know as Monopoly - but she never gets the credit. Now a new book aims to put that right
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Pauline von Hellermann
@pvonhellermannn@mastodon.green  ·  activity timestamp 4 months ago
#FollowTheMoney 🧵63/n Excellent article by Tim White on how across Europe #privateequity has been buying up significant proportions of housing and driving up rental prices. A key dynamic in growing inequality that contributes to alienation and rise of far-right.

Everything is about #Assets.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jul/07/europe-financial-sector-house-prices-politics?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

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Across Europe, the financial
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Screenshot of top of this article The housing crisis in Europe Across Europe, the financial sector has pushed up house prices. It's a political timebomb Tim White We've been living in a great experiment: can finance provide basic human rights such as housing? The answer is increasingly no Mon 7 Jul 2025 05.00 BST Share 201 FOR SALE FU DE WONINGMARKT WONEN IS EEN STOP MASS TOURISM HOUSING SPECULAVO TALES COMPRES FEEDING 1
Screenshot of top of this article The housing crisis in Europe Across Europe, the financial sector has pushed up house prices. It's a political timebomb Tim White We've been living in a great experiment: can finance provide basic human rights such as housing? The answer is increasingly no Mon 7 Jul 2025 05.00 BST Share 201 FOR SALE FU DE WONINGMARKT WONEN IS EEN STOP MASS TOURISM HOUSING SPECULAVO TALES COMPRES FEEDING 1
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