New w/ @PranjalDrall: Private Credit's State Backstop: How Private Equity Socializes Risk Through Insurers. It's about how insurance insolvency, tax, and financial-regulation law have subsidized PE's takeover of life insurance and become the submerged law of private credit.
It gets a lot worse.
We are schedule to publish BlackRock's BDEBT private credit fund analysis to our Confidential Insights members.
From our analysis we can say that, PC funds borrow money from banks and other PC funds; then, buys wealth management firms and RIAs to acquire their investor accounts.
Does this then feed back into PC investments?
So, @michaeljburry, it appears that PC and PE can hold their breath as long as they get inflows - or their "inflow oxygen" gets cut?
Here was that Sandlot-esque break in the MLB All-Star Game, featuring fireworks and Ray Charles' rendition of "America the Beautiful," as it looked on the Fox broadcast. โพ๏ธ๐
The Dow/Gold Ratio in all its splendor. The Capital Rotation thesis only needs reconsidering if it punches upwards through the red circle. If not, it's a glorious era for gold & friends ๐