More companies come off the stock exchanges - thank goodness

Reading about the 2008 crash is interesting as all the signs were visible. There were certainly steps that could have been taken before 2008. 

Getting the financial analysts off the backs of the corporations, for example. 

It was almost as if companies were being managed from the offices of such people, who insisted on major changes with barely any knowledge of what really went on in these massive enterprises, let alone caring about their long-term future. More companies could have come off the stock exchanges, or never have gone on to them in the first place. There were other, more patient and sensible ways to finance enterprises.

Private equity, for example.

The game changer is private equity. My favourite money people act as a mini bank but who deal with flesh and blood people. This private equity actually looks for company owners who treat their customers as worthwhile serving repeatedly for many, many years. The best private equity are owners themselves and tend to take a non control position and let the owners get on with serving their clients.