> Private equity is… private. Normal people have our savings invested in public markets. We can’t easily invest in private equity, and we shouldn’t because it’s too risky.
Financial entities you rely on (pension funds, insurance companies, and universities among others) invest, and you may be getting access yourself thanks to Trump!
> IMO any business over a certain size should be forced to be public and no option to go private again.
What on earth is the rationale for this policy? If you build a successful company, you're required by law to give up control?
Your tiny indirect share of the PE firm's profits will not match your direct loss of service as a customer and/or loss of compensation as an employee. Contrary to popular myth, wealth does not trickle down in any meaningful way. In an unregulated capitalist system, wealth flows toward the centers of wealth, just as surely as gravity pulls toward the centers of mass.
I don't think there is a valid rationale for this.
Unfortunately, there are a lot of armchair spectators that don't understand how the economy actually functions; and they've got brigades that go after people that do actually know who speak out (based on certain keywords).
As a result, its totally not worth talking about since the point of no return has largely already come and gone and we're stuck in a hysteresis trap.
People don't see how the things we are seeing today were predictable outcomes given choices made at the money-printer level (i.e. Fed/Private Banking).
No deposit requirement, is no reserve money-printing. It always fails, but I'm sure someone will say... but this time will be different. Needless to say, any discussion on economics is basically flame bait these days with a lot of delusional people on both sides of the aisle.
Financial entities you rely on (pension funds, insurance companies, and universities among others) invest, and you may be getting access yourself thanks to Trump!
> IMO any business over a certain size should be forced to be public and no option to go private again.
What on earth is the rationale for this policy? If you build a successful company, you're required by law to give up control?