What are your real thoughts on private equity? Is it really this big bad thing a lot of people make it out to be?

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The general public yearns for a bad guy to blame their problems on, if that’s what you’re referencing by “big bad thing”.

It’s just business. Companies restructure and do layoffs / cost cuttings with or without PE investors.

Perhaps you can elaborate a little more. What kind of comments have you seen regarding private equity?

For example I constantly hear that private equity will own everything but meant in a negative way. I have also heard that private equity is contributing to the housing crisis. Things like that.

It can be a force for good helping companies grow and create jobs, but it can also be predatory, leading to job losses and bankruptcies. Just a real double edged sword.

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