Well fuck the UK but lolz at 4chan. Once, long ago, they were a place to watch faces of death type stuff. And it went downhill from there.

or both

The short answer (ba dum, tisssss) is that some forms of mutual funds buy a little bit of every stock rather than picking and choosing. Then, for reasons never really made clear, they let other investors borrow those stocks as long as they return them later.

Sears could have been what Amazon is today. Hell, it the 19th century, it WAS was Amazon is today. But the focus is so often on financial trickery over actual sound business practices

Alot of debt gets bundled into bonds or other investment vehicles and sold. So small retail investors, retirement funds, etc end up holding the bag. Sometimes the banks lose, but they can take tax write offs and if the loses are too great, they can often get bailed out by the government.

Because bankers buy politicians and if people complain they buy news coverage to call the naysayers socialists

Kinda like how Uber and Lyft put cab companies out of business and then their prices skyrocketed?

One of the reasons they have so much money is the financial trickery that private equity employs

Pretty much nothing in “the economy” works like it does in theory. It’s always way more complex so the people with the most power and money can squeeze more exploitation out of it. I really like how this guy explains it

https://www.facebook.com/reel/976701137942045

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/1LcJjd6Wosw

He’s got a whole series on Private Equity

They’re also fascist countries where the government can and do set strict limits on content without concern for rule of law or the will of the people.

Unsurprising that a guy collapsing the Republic into a fascist dictatorship says that TikTok should be a mouthpiece for the Government. It’s time for someone in a country that ISN’T the US, Russia, or China to start a TikTok rival for people to switch to.