Create accountLogin

Recent searches

No recent searches

Search options

Only available when logged in.
shakedown.social is one of the many independent Mastodon servers you can use to participate in the fediverse.
A community for live music fans with roots in the jam scene. Shakedown Social is run by a team of volunteers (led by @clifff and @sethadam1) and funded by donations.

Administered by:

Server stats:

291
active users

shakedown.social: AboutStatusProfiles directoryPrivacy policy

Mastodon: AboutGet the appKeyboard shortcutsView source codev4.3.4

#hedgefunds

1 post1 participant0 posts today
Public
The Media & Democracy Project

"Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink" is the story of a secretive hedge fund plundering America’s newspapers, and the journalists who are fighting back.

Join our free Zoom screening followed by a discussion with Director Rick Goldsmith: March 29 at 8 pm ET

tiny.cc/screening329

MobilizeSCREENING: "Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink" + Director Rick Goldsmith · The Media and Democracy ProjectWorried about the media diets of your fellow Americans, the loss of local journalism jobs - and the impact of this on our democracy? Join our Zoom screening of "Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink" followed by discussion with Director Rick Goldsmith. Stripped for Parts is the story of a secretive hedge fund that is plundering what is left of America’s newspapers, and the journalists who are fighting back. Hedge fund Alden Global Capital is quietly gobbling up newspapers across the country and gutting them, but no one knows why– until journalist Julie Reynolds begins to investigate. Her findings trigger rebellions across the country by journalists working at Alden-owned newspapers. Backed by the NewsGuild union, the newsmen and women go toe-to-toe with their “vulture capitalist” owners in a battle to save and rebuild local journalism in America. Who will control the future of America’s news ecosystem: Wall Street billionaires concerned only with profit, or those who see journalism as an essential public service, the lifeblood of our democracy? Trailer: https://vimeo.com/923029964 This film is NOT available on streaming platforms. This is a unique opportunity to watch via Zoom with Director Q&A - and be empowered with *ACTIONS YOU CAN TAKE* to fight for local journalism! Rick Goldsmith is a Peabody award winner and an Academy Award-nominee. More here: https://strippedforpartsfilm.com/the-filmmaker/
#Journalism#Press#PrivateEquity
Public
The Media & Democracy Project

Join us for a free virtual screening of Stripped For Parts followed by a Q&A with director Rick Goldsmith.

Then be empowered with actions you can take to fight for local journalism!

Saturday March 29, 8-10:30pm ET.

Register here:
mobilize.us/mediademocracyproj

MobilizeSCREENING: "Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink" + Director Rick Goldsmith · The Media and Democracy ProjectWorried about the media diets of your fellow Americans, the loss of local journalism jobs - and the impact of this on our democracy? Join our Zoom screening of "Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink" followed by discussion with Director Rick Goldsmith. Stripped for Parts is the story of a secretive hedge fund that is plundering what is left of America’s newspapers, and the journalists who are fighting back. Hedge fund Alden Global Capital is quietly gobbling up newspapers across the country and gutting them, but no one knows why– until journalist Julie Reynolds begins to investigate. Her findings trigger rebellions across the country by journalists working at Alden-owned newspapers. Backed by the NewsGuild union, the newsmen and women go toe-to-toe with their “vulture capitalist” owners in a battle to save and rebuild local journalism in America. Who will control the future of America’s news ecosystem: Wall Street billionaires concerned only with profit, or those who see journalism as an essential public service, the lifeblood of our democracy? Trailer: https://vimeo.com/923029964 This film is NOT available on streaming platforms. This is a unique opportunity to watch via Zoom with Director Q&A - and be empowered with *ACTIONS YOU CAN TAKE* to fight for local journalism! Rick Goldsmith is a Peabody award winner and an Academy Award-nominee. More here: https://strippedforpartsfilm.com/the-filmmaker/
#Press#HedgeFunds
Public
Charlie McHenry

It really does appear that we’re entering a new period of neo-feudalism, with billionaires, corporations (now deemed people) and hedge funds as our new overlords. The above mentioned culprits own massive amounts of housing, which is why rents keep going up; they own grocery stores, which is why food inflation and shrinkflation are so common; and they largely own our health care system, from hospitals to nursing homes. It’s long past time to break up these obvious monopolies and tax the rich - to avoid a popular uprising and the steady march toward serfdom for the middle class. #politics #Capitalism #feudalism #economics #Billionaires #HedgeFunds #Corporations #Exploitation

Public
The Japan Times

Thanks to the new amped-up generation of artificial intelligence, chatbots are now carrying out time-consuming research chores at hedge funds, summing up the views of Wall Street economists, generating charts and extracting updates from monetary officials. japantimes.co.jp/business/2024 #business #tech #ai #hedgefunds #chatgpt #openai #wallstreet #markets

The Japan Times · Hedge funds race to tailor ChatGPT for time-consuming research choresBy Justina Lee
Replied in thread
Public
Coach Pāṇini ®

@freeformz @axios

You are not wrong:

“Institutional investors — such as #HedgeFunds, #PrivateEquity firms, and endowments — owned an estimated 574,000 properties as of June 2022, according to the Urban Institute. For reference, Realtor.com data revealed a total of 754,846 active property listings in November 2023.”

Investment firms own 75% of the available #American #housing stock for sale.

#RealEstate #CostOfLiving

themortgagereports.com/109150/

Mortgage Rates, Mortgage News and Strategy : The Mortgage Reports · Meet the Bill to Ban Hedge Fund Home BuyingIf passed, the End Hedge Fund Control of American Homes Act would add over half a million properties back into the housing market.
Public
Kim Perales

Appallng:

Last year, regulators issued a rule requiring #hedgefunds & #privateequity firms to better disclose how they spend investors’💰-designed to prevent WS from stealing the retirement savings of public-sector workers. Then WS lobbyists got a Trump-packed court to block the disclosure rule. Now -often using investors’💰to finance execs’ private jet travel. Public pensions are largest investors in PE funds: “31.3% of all investors & contributing 67%” of the capital.
levernews.com/why-are-teachers

The Lever · Why Are Teachers Funding Billionaires’ Private Jets?Plus, Wall Street pretends it’s in Texas, Gordon Gekko gets rich off California workers, and the launch of Summer 2024’s blockbuster event.
Public
beSpacific

#AI in #Banking & #Finance, 6/15/24. Sabrina I. Pacifici highlights news, govt reports, NGO/IGO papers, industry white papers, academic papers, speeches AI’s fast paced impact on #banking & #finance sectors. 5 highlights from this post: Financial regulators have ‘insufficiently’ addressed #hedgefunds’ use of AI; 2024 Conference on Artificial Intelligence & #FinancialStability; Two AI Truths and a Lie; Simple #Macroeconomics of AI; Rise of AI at #JPMorganChase llrx.com/2024/06/ai-in-banking #economics

www.llrx.comAI in Banking and Finance, June 15, 2024 – LLRX
Public
Zhi Zhu 🕸️

"The #Biden administration plans to stop businesses & #wealthy individuals from manipulating the value of assets in #arcane ways such as using the same assets over & over again to lower their #taxes.

High-end business partnerships like #HedgeFunds and wealthy individuals such as #RealEstate investors have inappropriately used labyrinthine structures to shield tens of billions of dollars from #taxation"

washingtonpost.com/business/20

News headline and photo with caption. Headline: Business Closing asset loophole could add billions to tax collections, IRS says The Treasury Department said it will enact rules to prevent certain large businesses from depreciating the same asset repeatedly. By Julie Zauzmer Weil June 17, 2024 at 8:45 a.m. EDT Photo with caption: Deputy Treasury Secretary Wally Adeyemo, seen in 2023, says closing a tax-basis loophole used by partnerships can raise $50 billion over 10 years. (Demetrius Freeman/The Washington Post)
#Money#Corruption#Business
ExploreLive feeds
About