Saudi Arabia's PIF Reportedly Running Low on Cash Following EA Deal - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 25 November 2025 / 3,729 Views
Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund (PIF) is running low on cash for new investments, according to a report from The New York Times.
The PIF has several projects that are in financial trouble. This includes a ski resort, cruise line, a coffee chain, and an electric vehicle start-up that hasn't delivered a car yet.
The New York Times sources say the PIF is restructuring its operations and the prince has fired the head of at least one of its projects. It is also reportedly looking to invest more in areas like publicly traded stocks.
The PIF, along with over investment firms, acquired Electronic Arts for $55 billion in September and plans to take the gaming publisher private. The deal is expected to close in the first quarter of 2027 and needs approval by regulators and EA stockholders.
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EA might have accidentally done something good.
Good. May Prince Muhammad Bone Sawin' go bankrupt. I also hppe they become too broke to buy more toys from the United States. Too bad it won't also bankrupt Jared Kushner, though he'd just use American tax money to cover his losses.
The Rich don't really go bankrupt.
They use the negative cash flow to avoid paying tax and contributing to society whilst they build their asset portfolio.
That's why I hate billionaires.
"I hate people who got rich because iam poor".
If only I had an emerald mine where I could send children to work at, I would become a billionaire too so I could finally stop hating the rich 😔
Both of Elon's parents are just as disgusting as he is, and privilege aside, you can see where he gets his behavior from. The road apple didn't fall far from the horse's ass in that case.
They're all wastes of oxygen.
No, it's because they get so rich by paying their staff next to nothing and avoid paying taxes. THINK before you say something next time.
Well, it is connected, to become super rich others have to become poor. And everyone beyond a certain level of riches (say 100 million), can only reach this level of money on the work of others, not their own. So these people had more, if part of the values their works produces wouldn't be leeched away.
That's why no obscenely rich person (apart from Scrooge McDuck who's not even a real person) can truthfully say they're self-made.
no reason to hate because people do better than you, if they follow the laws in place wfc?
You missed the part where I said they're tax dodgers.
We can't all just become the "Prince" of a nation, it's not something we can strive towards and achieve success with.
But if I am paying more tax than a Billionaire or a Multi-Billion dollar company and thus contribute more towards the roads, telecommunications, energy infrastructure and more that they use?
Then something is wrong and the system is broken.
It is especially broken when they receive tax breaks and government handouts at the nations expense.
And they use far, far more of that infrastructure than you or I will. And I will never get special protection from law enforcement or the military the way these billionaires do, at public expense.
Doesn't sound shocking, they spent money like a drunken sailor. Even offered to buy out the company I work for, for well above it's sticker price. Even got to meet some of the big wigs who are in charge of PIF.
They're like lottery winners who take all the money they won and piss it away.
In this case, the world would be better off if the PIF did mismanage their finances into oblivion.
The world would be even better off without the Saudi royal family.
Yeah, I don't feel bad that the funds of a medieval regime that is treating their citizens bad and their corrupt monarch family are mismanaged.
If the regime violently collapsed I would laugh.
Might have been a good deal at the time for them tbh, company's stock is up nearly double since then.
Oh boo hoo.
Saudi Arabia knows that their days of being a petrostate are numbered. Oil is a finite resource, after all. But so is all the money they made off of said oil. They are so desperate to diversify their economy and ingratiate themselves with the rest of the world that they're blowing all of their money on buying up foreign companies and hosting international entertainment events (can't seem to go five minutes without seeing Riyadh Season ads). Which wouldn't be so bad if it weren't for the fact that their government, one of the few remaining absolute monarchies left in the world, is brutally authoritarian. Not exactly a government we should be doing business with unless absolutely necessary, and given that we technically could start shifting completely away from gasoline-powered motor vehicles tomorrow if we wanted, we really don't need to be doing business with the House of Saud.
Our business with the House of Saud should have stopped with 9/11, if not sooner. It's disgusting how people said that America "forgot 9/11" over a politician of Indo-Ugandan heritage being elected mayor of New York City, while the red carpet is rolled out for the country that actually perpetrated 9/11. A lot of the money for 9/11 also came from Qatar, which now has its own training facility in Idaho.
And the shooting of 8 American service members, four of them fatally, in Pensacola.
And the brutal murder of Jamal Khashoggi.
