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bilekastoday at 10:56 AM1 replyview on HN

If they can do some accounting trickery to pull this off then they deserve it. Makes zero sense to me but I did not think GameStop had even close to that in assets.


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hdndjsbbstoday at 11:05 AM

It's the leveraged buyout playbook. You buy a company and use its own assets to secure a loan. Then you "find efficiencies" (strip it for parts to pay yourself and the creditors).

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