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Episodes · 12 months
20
Nov 2025–Oct 2026peak share, Feb 2026
Share of analysed episodes per month, Nov 2025 to Oct 2026: 2 of 3,584, 1 of 3,862, 3 of 4,115, 5 of 4,226, 5 of 4,731, 2 of 4,438, 1 of 4,230, 1 of 4,319, 0 of 4,515, 0 of 4,419, 0 of 4,624, 0 of 4,594.
All time
29
+6 via 6 narrower
On record
18
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Where they standLast discussed
5mo ago
Jun 5, 2026
Where they stand
Camps of opinion · 2Positions people took on this topic in transcripts, grouped by school of thought. The bar shows each camp's share of the people sorted into a camp. It is not a poll and not a share of any audience, and people whose position fit no camp are left out of it. Within a camp, people with demonstrated expertise on the topic come first, then those who reached the most listeners on it. Positions are extracted from transcripts by a model and may misattribute who said what. Every quote links to the episode it came from.
Share of people placed in a camp9 people
67%
33%
- Question Valuation and Performance6 people · 67%
- Criticize Predatory Business Practices3 people · 33%
Question Valuation and Performance
Private market valuations are currently inflated or unreliable, leading to potential systemic risks and poor future performance outcomes.
6 people · 5 episodes
Private equity as a general asset class is in trouble because too much capital is entering the sector, driving down potential returns to zero.
“I think private equity is totally screwed. I I don't think Silverlake or Infinity or this deal are screwed, but I think private equity in general is totally owed.”
The All-In Podcast · Oct 2025 · 4 episodes · 1.2M views on this topic
The Robin Hood venture fund represents a risky liquidity grab for Wall Street where retail investors are likely to buy into illiquid assets at potentially inflated valuations.
“I am staying away from it because you can't fundamentally analyze it. The very companies they're trying to get liquidity for don't have a market of their own. So there's nothing for you to actually compare their value to. So for me, that's a hard pass.”
Meet Kevin · Feb 2026 · 1 episode · 70K views on this topicBW
Boaz Weinstein suggests that many private credit funds are marked at values that are too high, contributing to systemic risk.
“I don't have to be a merlin to know that the knives are too high at all of these funds. And they're not only too high because it's too hard for them to mark them down, you know, like, they'll mark down what they observe and then they'll do some, like matrix pricing.”
Money Stuff: The Podcast · Mar 2026 · 1 episode · 14K views on this topicCriticize Predatory Business Practices
Private equity firms prioritize profit extraction through strategies that harm companies, communities, consumers, and market stability.
3 people · 3 episodes
Chris Hedges contends that private equity firms act like a mafia by leveraging loans to harvest companies and siphon off assets, ultimately causing bankruptcies while they make a killing.
“they bought it up then they spun off a separate company and uh which had all the real estate all the physical nursing homes themselves and they charged the other company which was administering the nursing homes rent of $440,000 a month and of course it went bankrupt and they made a killing”
The Jimmy Dore Show · Feb 2025 · 1 episode · 197K views on this topic
Private equity firms have negatively impacted local housing availability by purchasing homes in working-class communities and converting them into rentals.
“they're occupied by renters because private equity firms bought up homes in that community.”
The Young Turks · Dec 2025 · 1 episode · 28K views on this topic
Private equity firm ownership has contributed to lower food quality in chain restaurants due to cost-cutting measures and standardized, non-fresh ingredients.
“a lot of these these restaurants have been taken over by by these private equity companies that come in. And this has happened especially over the last 20 or 25 years where most of these places are not own they're owned by the private equity firms. And then part of that is that now they come in, it'”
Matt Walsh · Dec 2025 · 1 episode · 26K views on this topicExtracted by a model; may misattribute who said what.
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Episodes discussing this topicIncludes episodes tagged with a narrower subject. Each is marked with the subject it came in through.
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Over time
Share of episodesThis topic's episodes as a share of every episode we analysed, in each complete month. We analyse more episodes every month, so a raw count would mostly show that growth. Recent months fill in as transcripts are analysed.
Complete months · first on record Sep 2022