“The holding companies of these insurance companies that also own the alternative asset management firms, Apollo, KKR - you’re saying that if the insurance entity dissolved & went bankrupt, even though they don’t go bankrupt, that KKR, Apollo, or the parent company would have no obligation to make things whole?"
“They have zero obligation to make things whole. And you can see that in Athene investor presentations.” $APO $KKR
“People say, ‘We can’t afford higher rates’...But the answer isn't to force them unnaturally low...
Congress isn’t going to say 'Oh, good. You fixed the deficit.' It’s 'Oh you took my credit card limit off of its max. Now I’ve got room to run it right back up to the limit again'