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Bad Company

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Bad Company

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Description
"Private equity runs our country, yet few Americans have any idea how ingrained it is in their lives. Private equity controls our hospitals, daycare centers, supermarket chains, voting machine manufacturers, local newspapers, nursing home operators, fertility clinics, and prisons. The industry even manages highways, municipal water systems, fire departments, emergency medical services, and owns a growing swath of commercial and residential real estate. ... [This book] unearths the hidden story of private equity by examining the lives of four American workers that were devastated as private equity upended their employers and communities: a Toys R Us floor supervisor, a rural doctor, a local newspaper journalist, and an affordable housing organizer. Taken together, their individual experiences also pull back the curtain on a much larger project: how private equity reshaped the American economy to serve its own interests, creating a new class of billionaires while stripping ordinary people of their livelihoods, their health care, their homes, and their sense of security"--
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
320
Release Date:
2025-06-10
Publication Date:
2025-06-10
Publisher:
HarperCollins
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0063299356
ISBN13:
9780063299351
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Weight:
440 g
Height:
159 cm
Width:
232 cm
Thickness:
31 cm
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