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From Cradle To Krispy Kreme To Grave, Private Equity Is Making Everyone’s Life Worse

Buying a house, raising a family, spending Saturdays at kids’ sporting events – every aspect of normal life is touched by private equity.

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Your local doughnut shop got taken over by private equity and, like everything else private equity touches, things got worse. Gone is the experience of watching the conveyor belt fry doughnuts in front of you. No more biting into a freshly made pastry that melts in your mouth. Bad for you? Sure. Delicious? Yes.

Now, it is just bad for you. Private equity stepped in and doughnuts are now shipped to nearly every location from a corporate shop. Krispy Kreme has lost more than 80 percent of its stock value since its peak.

What matters most to Americans?

Family, work, community, a good meal, health — all things that have been tampered with by private equity. Private equity now controls $9 trillion worth of assets and companies, all of which touch the lives of everyday Americans in significant ways. And as private equity attacks industry after industry, the quality changes and the consumer suffers.

If you want to live a normal life — buy a house, raise a family, spend Saturdays at kids sporting events — every aspect of life is touched by private equity.

Take a young couple looking to buy a home. This was once a straightforward task — find a house, buy it, move in, call it home — but the reality is, a large percentage of homes are purchased by private investors. In 2025, this number climbed to 34 percent, almost twice as high as the 2020-2023 average. The number now sits at almost 32 percent.

Meanwhile, families are struggling to afford a house and first-time homebuyers accounted for an all-time low of 21 percent. The median age of first-time homebuyers is 40. In 2021 and 2022, one neighborhood in North Carolina saw 50 percent of homes sold go to private investors.

The only thing growing faster than the age of a first-time home buyer is the age of a first-time parent. That explains why the hottest investment prospect in America right now is the fertility industry. In the 21st century, young women have been convinced to chase careers over........

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