Comment by zzzeek

Saw a discussion on threads recently about private equity buying things like Red Lobster and ruining it, and there was some general head scratching over the general theme of, why is "private equity took over XYZ and ruined it!" such a theme right now, whereas it was not a few decades ago? Less aware folks felt this was some new thing that could somehow be regulated. How do you regulate private ownership of things? Even this article talked about "regulation". Nobody is more pro-regulation than me but in this case what are we regulating exactly?