Sentences with phrase «term asset stripping»

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Low rates discourage banks from providing longer term financing to new businesses, but low rates provide cheap capital for Wall Street traders, private equity and activist investors who buy companies, strip assets and flip investments quickly.

Following Sir George Cox's review on short - termism, we will change takeover rules, and corporate incentives and reform our tax system to stop short - term asset - stripping and support long - term investment.

Where all of my comments on this piece have come from is an annoyance at how people bandy round terms like «asset stripping» without understanding what's involved.

Slater also popularized the technique known as «asset stripping,» referring to the acquisition and subsequent disposal of company assets, a practice that many viewed as unnecessarily or overly harsh in terms of costs to company employees.