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26 May 2011
Private Equity Bubble to Burst in 2012 is 2x as big as the real estate one
This illuminating book explains how the buyouts and takeovers of the 80's never really stopped; they are just called something different now and are being done in exponentially greater numbers and amounts. The cover story is that buyouts make their acquisitions more efficient, but the truth is that the companies that are bought out are saddled with the debt used to buy them out. Operating revenue and staff are cut drastically to free up huge sums of operating revenue that goes to the deal makers in the form of up-front fees and exorbinate dividends. The result, apart from making these post-modern robber-barrons richer, is the crappy quality of goods and service all around us, what to speak of millions of people unemployed for no good reason. You know how everything has really been sucking more and more over the last 20 - 30 years? The book explains how private equity buyouts actually make companies less efficient at what they are actually in business to do, while making the super wealthy even wealthier at society's expense for ourselves and the coming generation. If you thought the real estate bubble was bad - the upcoming private equity bubble involves twice the amounts involved in the real estate bubble. Noone expects these companies to be able to pay the loans used to buy them after a few years - but who cares? The big money was already made by the private equity firm. Who cares if millions of jobs are lost so that some rich guy can get his 17th mansion?
09 June 2016
Much Better than Sartre, imho.
Yet he got most of the credit and definitely the fame at the time. de Beauvior tutored and studied with Sartre after he actually failed his first higher level examination. Then they took the exam together the following year and he came in first due to her help. (She came in 2nd). Her academic achievements at a very young age, especially for a woman in her time, are truly astounding. They were by no means limited to philosophy.
I find de Beauvior more direct and less unnecessarily verbose than Sartre. The Ethics of Ambiguity was a critical work that preceded The Second Sex, and introduced the important notions of freedom and individuation that led to the latter. I guess one could summarize part of the message being that if you are not out of your comfort zone, you are not yet free. As soon as you conform to a social norm, you lose your identity to it and cease acting freely. I consider this a compulsory read for any serious philosophy student (or serious, authentic feminist - not the current political variety). I also highly recommend this book to men because it need have nothing to do with one's gender - it's more about living one's life in authentic freedom.
13 February 2010
Best Cast Series Ever!
Best cast series; even the extras make you ask, "where'd they get him/her?" Great direction and pacing. Can't wait for the rest of the seasons to come out on DVD.