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Wild that what's obvious to ransom HN commenters hasn't been noticed by the guys buying the dead shells of companies. You'd think that it would be important to
by JackFr 4y ago
Wild that what's obvious to ransom HN commenters hasn't been noticed by the guys buying the dead shells of companies. You'd think that it would be important to them.
Or maybe that's anecdotal and not necessarily the brought trend.
- StanislavPetrov 4y ago>Wild that what's obvious to ransom HN commenters hasn't been noticed by the guys buying the dead shells of companies. It isn't so wild when you consider cases like Sears, where Eddie Lampert in effect used a variety of shell companies to sell off the profitable parts to himself.
- che_shirecat 4y agoobvious outlier skewing your perception of the market as a whole. if the sears/eddie lampert case was the norm, why would PE deals ever happen?
- StanislavPetrov 4y agoBecause there is an immense of amount of money to be made by people with access to cheap money at the expense of people without that sort of access.