Nearly two years after Elon Musk’s acquisition, X’s business is still struggling to climb out of the deep hole it fell into under his ownership.
The $13 billion that Elon Musk borrowed to buy Twitter has turned into the worst merger-finance deal for banks since the 2008-09 financial crisis.
The seven banks involved in the deal, including Morgan Stanley and Bank of America, lent the money to the billionaire’s holding company to take the social-media platform, now named X, private in October 2022. Banks that provide loans for takeovers generally sell the debt quickly to other investors to get it off their balance sheets, making money on fees.
Align with the value of international finance, e.g. think that the poor exist to be exploited for greater inequality.
They already covered that with 1. And 2.
Shit, best I can do is
be poor and punish other poors for being poorAh the local redneck business owner. I lucked into a niche where I can sit back and let some country boys work and print money for me. I’ll look down on everyone else in town from my swanky nouveau riche cowboy boots.