Private Equity

The $55 billion leveraged buyout of Electronic Arts by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, Jared Kushner’s Affinity Partners, and Silver Lake exposes the growing nexus of private equity greed, political cronyism, and foreign capital influence in the U.S. gaming industry. This article unpacks how the deal’s debt-driven structure threatens EA’s workers, creative studios, and gamers while revealing a broader pattern of elites exploiting national security loopholes for personal profit.

A White House executive order was supposed to give private equity access to workers’ retirement accounts. But there is more evidence that plan administrators see it as a risky bet.

The private equity industry was giddy about Trump’s executive order opening up access to workers’ retirement accounts. But why?

Private equity firms are gutting core skateboarding brands through leveraged buyouts, mass layoffs, and debt-driven restructuring, eroding the creativity and community that built skate culture. From the collapse of Dwindle Distribution to the hollowing out of Boardriders Inc., financial takeovers are turning skateboarding into a commodified spectacle for shareholder profit.

Trump’s plan to open 401(k) plans to private equity could hand a struggling industry trillions in retirement savings while exposing workers to risky, underperforming investments.

Are critics of the private equity industry wrong about how the industry affects workers? A new paper tries — and ultimately fails — to make the case.

The struggling private equity industry is pushing to tap workers’ 401(k)s for cash, with Trump-backed policies enabling access despite high risks and poor returns.

Trump’s “big beautiful bill” is still being hammered out, but private equity is already counting its big wins.