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Transparency, for one:
Enter the Securities and Exchange Commission, or SEC, the federal agency charged with stopping bad actors from manipulating the markets. The SEC, led by Biden appointee Gary Gensler, has proposed changing their rules so that private equity firms would have to, y'know, tell the truth about their returns of their funds and disclose transparent information about all the fees that they charge. Obviously, the lobbying groups representing private equity firms are up in arms about the idea that they might have to disclose even some basic information to their investors.
Meanwhile in Congress, the federal Stop Wall Street Looting act, introduced in 2021, would limit the amount of debt used in buyouts, increase transparency, and close tax loopholes. What can we do ourselves? Well, unionize. A unionized workforce is better protected against a leveraged buyout.
Without those changes, the private equity mafia is going to keep getting away with their schemes to line their pockets with OUR money.
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