Post #3466169

2026-02-18 06:43 UTC

#FollowTheMoney 🧵 91/n Youth #unemployment in particular is rising significantly in the UK. Now at 16.1%, higher than EU average for the first time. Alan Milburn: this poses an “existential” risk for the UK and could put “a generation on the scrapheap”. “This is not a short-term phenomenon, it’s a long-term one,” he told the BBC. “We’re seeing something dramatic changing in the labour markets.” https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/feb/17/its-soul-crushing-young-people-battle-bleak-jobs-market-as-youth-unemployment-rises?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

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@pvonhellermannn@mastodon.green 2026-05-27 11:57

#FollowTheMoney 🧵95/n It seems to me like #PrivateEquity is nothing but an additional “creaming off”, rentier layer and therefore structurally completely inefficient. Feels like there are more and more signs of this - eg this aside in a piece on supermarkets i just happened to read. I wonder whether we have reached peak private equity - maybe it will all collapse soon. However, not at all an expert! https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/may/27/lidl-overtakes-morrisons-to-become-fifth-largest-supermarket-in-uk?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

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