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They load debt for dividends and dump it on new investors in the IPO. Classic private equity move ruin the product extract cash and leave the mess behind. Once great sandwich now feels like a scam. Jersey Mike’s sandwiches have shrunk dramatically. I just got one and was shocked how small it is. I looked …
Up until now, when it comes to real estate, Blackstone was best known in recent years for dumping many of its trophy office properties – which in the aftermath of work from home never recovered their projected cash flow potential – at a huge discount. Now, it may be pulling a page from its old, …
Blackstone allegedly loses over $600m on a single housing portfolio Here's one property pic.twitter.com/EaJ7DxjE0u — Darth Powell (@VladTheInflator) February 18, 2026 Per Grok: Blackstone bought ~90 senior housing properties (9K units) for $1.8B in 2016-17, planning to upgrade and resell. Pandemic reduced demand, high interest rates hit their $1.2B debt, and labor costs rose, leading …
Private credit is showing the early signs of a real liquidity squeeze. The marks are too high, the cash is leaving, the borrowers are struggling, and Blackstone’s chart is telling the truth before the reports do. It's toxic leveraged buyout trash. Tony Fucking Robbins was promoting it 2ish years ago… pic.twitter.com/wAZtv2ZGkW — Lentil Paws Rexandra🇨🇦🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 …
Shooter entered 345 Park around 6:30 p.m. with an AR-15 and body armor. NYPD officer and two civilians hit. One cop and one civilian critical at Bellevue. FBI on site. Level 3 Mobilization. No ID. No motive. No footage. No press briefing. Just tan gear and a blackout. What they’re not saying • Shooter’s name …
This MUST BE STOPPED New report shows Blackstone buying massive amounts of properties all over the United States and increasing rents 38% “A new report is shedding light — It found that one equity firm increased rent prices at nearly double the market rate.” “Blackstone, a a major player in the real estate market moving …
Blackstone is beginning to sell their housing portfolio in Florida, particularly here in St. Petersburg where the inventory of homes for sale has spiked in the last year. This house behind me in this video is behind sold by a Blackstone-owned company called Home Partners of America. They bought it in August 2022 for $380,000 …
Deutsche Bank: Deutsche Bank has indeed reported significant losses from its commercial real estate exposure. The bank posted a net loss of €143 million for Q2 2024, largely due to provisions for credit losses and a substantial litigation charge. Blackstone Mortgage REIT: Blackstone Mortgage Trust (BXMT) has cut its dividend by 24% due to rising defaults …
Stephen Schwarzman, CEO of Blackstone, expressed serious concerns about the future of the U.S. economy should President Joe Biden win another term in the White House. In an interview with Bloomberg in Davos, Switzerland, Schwarzman cited the current $2 trillion deficit, increasing debt-to-GDP ratio, and open borders policy as economic threats. He questioned whether the …
Big corporate landlords like Blackstone are defaulting on mortgages of commercial property across America. Resulting in 90% declines in values in some cases, especially in cities like Las Vegas. Where Blackstone is nearing default on a 1.4 million SF office complex. One of several big properties than Blackstone has stopped making payments on and could …
https://web.archive.org/web/20230925112719/https://www.reuters.com/technology/sec-collects-wall-streets-private-messages-whatsapp-probe-escalates-sources-2023-09-25/ NEW YORK, Sept 25 (Reuters) – The U.S. securities regulator has collected thousands of staff messages from more than a dozen major investment companies, escalating its probe into Wall Street’s use of private messaging apps, said four people with direct knowledge of the matter. Previously, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) had asked the …
*BLACKSTONE CEO: THE NUMBERS JUSTIFY FITCH'S US DOWNGRADE — zerohedge (@zerohedge) August 4, 2023 US credit downgrade, another sign of a deepening crisis: The downgrade reflects the massive surge in the US federal debt, which has been driven by a series of bank and corporate bailouts accompanied by runaway military spending. “The downgrading of the …
https://twitter.com/texasrunnerDFW/status/1686187300516954112 EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: Car Loans Tougher to Get, More People Getting Rejected by Lenders. https://twitter.com/1200616796295847936/status/1686034230470451201 The total for all commercial properties that were in distress was $72 billion, in the US, up 13% from the first quarter, per Bloomberg. pic.twitter.com/rG3DWoF14z — unusual_whales (@unusual_whales) July 31, 2023 Tech bulls are right, this is not 1999. …
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