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Ballou, Brendan, author.
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Private equity -- United States.
Economics -- United States.
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Plunder : private eq...
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Plunder : private equity's plan to pillage America / Brendan Ballou.
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Ballou, Brendan, author.
New York, NY : PublicAffairs, 2023.
Subjects
Private equity -- United States.
Economics -- United States.
ISBN:
9781541702103 (hardcover) :
1541702107 (hardcover) :
Description:
viii, 353 pages ; 24 cm
Edition:
First edition.
Contents:
Introduction: A new gilded age -- Part I. How they make their money. Other people's money, and how they use it: the tactics of private equity -- Ending homeownership as we know it: private equity in housing -- Profiting off bankruptcy: private equity in retail -- Deadly care: private equity in nursing homes -- Making it all worse: private equity in health care -- This time will be different: private equity in finance -- Captive audience: private equity in prisons -- Part II. How they get their way. Suing their own customers: private equity in the courts -- Privatizing the public sector: private equity in local government -- The industry's strongest advocates: private equity in Congress -- Part III. How to stop them. What we must do -- An agenda for reform.
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"Plunder is a startling investigation into the poorly understood, powerful force of private equity that is reshaping the American economy: raising prices, reducing quality, cutting jobs, increasing inequality, and shifting resources from productive parts of the economy to unproductive ones. Already transformative, private equity is poised to reshape the American economy in this decade the way that big tech did in the last decade, and subprime lenders the decade before that. And importantly, private equity is doing all of this not just with the acquiescence but the active support of the government. If you've ever wondered what happened to Toys R Us; why your doctor's bills are getting more expensive, why nursing homes are getting worse, why there is a housing shortage, why newspapers in Chicago and Los Angeles have gone downhill and local investigative reporting has dried up, Brendan Ballou's Plunder provides the reason why and provides a reform agenda spelling out how this industry can be stopped from wreaking further havoc. Brendan Ballou shows how private equity firms buy up companies using little or no investment, forcing them to take on huge debts and pay extractive fees, often wringing the life blood out of them, leaving them bankrupt or a shell of their former selves. Private equity's impact extends to the communities that have long depended on now- eviscerated companies for employment and prosperity. Perhaps most startling is Ballou's insight into how this is happening with the active support of government. Through vivid storytelling, Ballou's revelatory explanation of how private equity works shines a light on a part of Wall Street that is hastening the financialization of the American economy and increasing the power of banks and other institutions over companies that make and sell tangible products"--Provided by publisher.
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Hawaii State Library
Business, Science & Technology
332.60973 Ba
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Kailua-Kona Public Library
Adult Nonfiction
332.60973 Ba
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Kihei Public Library
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Pearl City Public Library
Adult Nonfiction
332.60973 Ba
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