{"id":33028,"date":"2025-04-19T20:22:49","date_gmt":"2025-04-19T20:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/?p=33028"},"modified":"2025-04-19T16:23:18","modified_gmt":"2025-04-19T20:23:18","slug":"geoffrey-died-the-autopsy-to-read-to-duck-ch9-bankruptcy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/geoffrey-died-the-autopsy-to-read-to-duck-ch9-bankruptcy\/","title":{"rendered":"Geoffrey Died, The Autopsy to Read To Duck Ch9 Bankruptcy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"postie-post\">\n<div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Private Equity Firms are DESTROYING American Businesses they same way they bankrupted Toys &#8220;R&#8221; Us and put them out of business<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Here\u2019s how they did it<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">&#8211; After signing for Toys &#8220;R&#8221; Us, they sold all of the land under every store they own in the United States<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">&#8211; Private Equity sold it to their sister firms that they also own, their real estate investment trust<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">&#8211; They sell the land to themselves for cheap and then lease the land back to Toys\u201dR\u201dUs for expensive rates<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">&#8211; So now Toys\u201dR\u201dUs has a lease they didn&#8217;t have when they were still successful<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">&#8211; So next private equity went to look at all Toys\u201dR\u201dUs\u2019 warehouses where they have backstock that carries them over in economic downturn. They began to sell that to a liquidator, all of the extra stock<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">&#8211; Next private equity sold all the Toys\u201dR\u201dUs\u2019 warehouses, to their own real estate investment firms<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">&#8211; Private equity now leases back all of the infrastructure Toys\u201dR\u201dUs had built over the last 100 years to become the successful powerhouse it was<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\u201cThey decimated Toys\u201dR\u201dUs in literally 2 years. At the end of this, Toys\u201dR\u201dUs can no longer make their payments to the bank, so they&#8217;re going to have to file bankruptcy.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">And then what&#8217;s going to happen is all of the assets that Toys R Us had left, which is largely only the intellectual property at this point, we&#8217;re going to have a fire sale. And you know who&#8217;s going to buy it for pennies on the dollar? One of our sister private equity firms. And they&#8217;re going to get the intellectual property, then we&#8217;re going to sell that to Macy&#8217;s to use, and then we&#8217;re going to go buy Macy&#8217;s and we&#8217;re going to start over again.\u201d<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">This happens to business after business in America and it must be stopped.<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/wallstreetapes\/status\/1913454340133863820?s=43\"><\/p>\n<table cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" border=\"0\" style=\"border:1px solid #ccd6dd; border-radius: 12px;\" width=\"500\" bgcolor=\"#ffffff\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"3\" style=\"font-size: 0px; line-height: 0px;\" height=\"12\">&nbsp;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"18\" style=\"font-size: 0px; line-height: 0px; min-width: 18px;\">&nbsp;<\/td>\n<td>\n<table cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" border=\"0\" width=\"464\" align=\"left\">\n<tbody>\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td width=\"48\" valign=\"top\"><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/wallstreetapes?s=43\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/profile_images\/1593753619148382208\/YYzzCs6C_normal.jpg\" style=\"border-radius: 50%; padding: 0px;\" height=\"48\" width=\"48\" data-unique-identifier=\"\"><\/a><\/td>\n<td width=\"8\" style=\"font-size: 0px; line-height: 0px; min-width:8px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ea.twimg.com\/email\/self_serve\/media\/spacer.png\" width=\"8\" data-unique-identifier=\"\"><\/td>\n<td valign=\"middle\" width=\"388\" style=\"min-width: 388px;\">\n<table cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\" width=\"388\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\" width=\"388\"><b><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/wallstreetapes?s=43\" style=\"font-family: Helvetica, Arial, san-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; color: #292c2f; text-decoration: none;\">Wall Street Apes<\/a><\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/wallstreetapes?s=43\" style=\"font-family: Helvetica, Arial, san-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; text-decoration: none; color: #7e8c98;\">\u2066\u202a@WallStreetApes\u202c\u2069<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"20\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ea.twimg.com\/email\/self_serve\/media\/logo_twitter-1497383721365.png\" height=\"20\" width=\"24\" data-unique-identifier=\"\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td height=\"9\" colspan=\"4\" style=\"font-size: 0px; line-height:0px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ea.twimg.com\/self_serve\/media\/spacer_464x1-1582829598167.png\" width=\"464\" height=\"1\" data-unique-identifier=\"\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"4\" style=\"font-family: Helvetica, Arial, san-serif;color: #292c2f; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; text-decoration: none;\">Private Equity Firms are DESTROYING American Businesses they same way they bankrupted Toys &#8220;R&#8221; Us and put them out of business<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s how they did it<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; After signing for Toys &#8220;R&#8221; Us, they sold all of the land under every store they own in the United States<br \/>&#8211; Private Equity sold <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YrNtSvlwnw\"><span>pic.x.com\/YrNtSvlwnw<\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td height=\"3\" colspan=\"4\" style=\"font-size: 0px; line-height:0px;\">&nbsp;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"4\"><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/wallstreetapes\/status\/1913454340133863820?s=43\" style=\"font-family: Helvetica, Arial, san-serif;color: #667785; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; text-decoration:none;\">4\/18\/25, 11:47\u202fPM<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"18\" style=\"font-size: 0px; line-height: 0px; min-width: 18px;\">&nbsp;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"3\" style=\"font-size: 0px; line-height: 0px;\" height=\"12\">&nbsp;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><\/a><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Private Equity Firms are DESTROYING American Businesses they same way they bankrupted Toys &#8220;R&#8221; Us and put them out of business Here\u2019s how they did it &#8211; After signing for Toys &#8220;R&#8221; Us, they sold all of the land under every store they own in the United States &#8211; Private Equity sold it to their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33028\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}