You frustrate me so very badly! Ya, if you need space you better believe you will get it because I can’t take the pain you’re so moody it’s unbelievable. You don’t even deserve how nice I am but I love you to death and I always want to show it.

You frustrate me so very badly! Ya, if you need space you better believe you will get it because I can’t take the pain you’re so moody it’s unbelievable. You don’t even deserve how nice I am but I love you to death and I always want to show it.

I boost your ego whenever possible, I do whatever it takes to make sure you don’t feel unmanly, I say nothing about the fact that you don’t have a job, or a home, or a destination, that you won’t keep yourself out of the court system, and that you are an addict. I admit my mistakes to you and apologize, I keep my mouth shut when you are swearing and screaming at me because I don’t want to make it worse, I swallow my instincts to make you happy, I ignore when you are 30 minutes late to anything and everything, and i blow my friends off to avoid a fight. I may have made some mistakes before I found you that you cant seem to let me forget, but I forgave myself for you so that I could open my heart to love and in these moments I regret my vulnerability and I hurt deep inside when all I want is that special kiss. you had nothing to say in return today when I spilled my heart out for the 100th time. I suppress my hurtful words and anger to make you happy, and you spit it all back in my face with just a few words. I feel helpless and desperate, because even when you are treating me this way I still have overwhelming love for you and this terrifies me. There are several things wrong with you and your flaws out weigh mine. But I am intoxicated with you and I don’t know how to survive without you.
newyorker: Private Inequity The real reason that we should be concerned about private equity’s expanding power lies in the way these firms have become increasingly adept at using financial gimmicks to line their pockets, deriving enormous wealth not from management or investing skills but, rather, from the way the U.S. tax system works. Indeed, for an industry that’s often held up as an exemplar of free-market capitalism, private equity is surprisingly dependent on government subsidies for its profits. Financial engineering has always been central to leveraged buyouts. In a typical deal, a private-equity firm buys a company, using some of its own money and some borrowed money. It then tries to improve the performance of the acquired company, with an eye toward cashing out by selling it or taking it public. The key to this strategy is debt: the model encourages firms to borrow as much as possible, since, just as with a mortgage, the less money you put down, the bigger your potential return on investment. The rewards can be extraordinary: when Romney was at Bain, it supposedly earned eighty-eight per cent a year for its investors. But piles of debt also increase the risk that companies will go bust. - In this week’s issue, James Surowiecki writes about how private equity firms like Bain Capital earn profits: http://nyr.kr/ArHyoL
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