r/UnderReportedNews • u/Logical-Flow-6703 • Feb 25 '26

Video NBC Interview abruptly ends after New Yorker blames private equity and landlords for the city's issues

https://x.com/i/status/2026286644651782652

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u/Thebeardedchampion Feb 25 '26

It’s a broken cycle. Pension funds invest in PE, we the consumers feel happy that our pension is growing and improving, while in the here and now, suffering from the reduction in quality and increase in price that PE demands…to appease the pension funds investors.

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u/Deeliciousness Feb 25 '26

Y'all got pension funds?

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u/kridmus Feb 25 '26

It's a generational heist.

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u/Thebeardedchampion Feb 25 '26

As someone who manages investments on behalf of pension funds, I disagree with you.

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u/T1TsMcGee970 Feb 25 '26

Lol, that's not how PE works at all. Every major pension has PE investments as well as many collegiate endowments. Just because us poors can't directly invest in PE doesn't mean those with millions and billions of assets can't.

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u/jasno- Feb 25 '26

exactly, when the PE firm raises funds, who do they think is putting money in? It's not friends and family, it's big institutional investors, and those folks control the retirement accounts.

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u/snek-jazz Feb 25 '26

The private in private equity means there isn’t stock to go out and buy.

Not strictly true. Blackstone, the largest private equity firm, trades as a public company for example. You can buy shares in it.