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For all these companies looking for bailouts, what prevents them from raising capital the old fashioned way? Issue more stock and sell it? Or, maybe sell all the stock you bought back with the rainy day fund you should have been holding on to?

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Seccour

@Seccour_FR

Mar 19, 2020

I’m hundred percent for it but who will invest in companies that don’t care to save in case shit goes down and prefer to buy back stocks ? As long as governments are doing bailouts, companies and investors will not care

Jesse Powell

@jespow

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@Seccour_FR

If you can get in cheap enough, and if you can get a large enough stake, you could potentially turn the company around. But, a hostile takeover type situation is not attractive to the incumbent failures. If they get the 2B2F bailout, the game is back on.

6:34 AM · Mar 19, 2020Twitter Web App

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There is not even remotely enough capital and there are not nearly enough investors for the private sector approach to even come close to working on a time scale that would matter.