I am not a CPA, an MBA, or even a BA.

I am a simple blue-collar schmuck working for a manifestly unupscale paycheck.

Something about this does not pass the smell test.

If they do go back private, you will have a time convincing me that this whole exercise was not a shuck and jive, and an extremely profitable, if cynical, plan from the start.

Am I supposed to believe that the increased oversight of being public has come as a surprise to these guys? That they are going back private because some mean stories hurt their feelings.

Come on! These folks are not some guy who took his feed store public and was suddenly baffled by it all.

I would write more, I am simply too disgusted.

And I have to get ready for work.

companies go public because an IPO is sometimes a better way to raise money, and raise awareness (free advertising). Here's a mouthful!

How many used google to google google's IPO? Just think, that sentence made no sense when I was born. Now, I should hope you understand perfectly.

If blackstone fails to generate "hype", people won't buy the stock, and the price will tank. Blackstone thought it could generate more hype. It isn't.