Fountaindale Public Library

These are the plunderers, how private equity runs -- and wrecks -- America, Gretchen Morgenson and Joshua Rosner

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Includes bibliographical references

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non fiction

These are the plunderers

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1376279254

Gretchen Morgenson and Joshua Rosner

how private equity runs -- and wrecks -- America

"A Pulitzer Prize-winning and New York Times bestselling financial journalist and a policy analyst expose the greed and pillaging of a small group of celebrated Wall Street financiers who use excessive debt and dubious practices to undermine our nation's economy while enriching themselves: private equity"--, provided by publisher

Introduction: "money-spinning machines": let the looting begin -- A note to readers -- "Pizza the hut": Leon Black and the art of the fleece -- "Greed is good": the plunderers come for the American middle class -- "Project savior": the politician who gave Leon Black his big start -- "I really need to understand what you do": one woman against the machine -- "The fire sale approach": how one of the greatest giveaways came about -- "No boy scout": plunder's many rewards -- "The real players": skating from the crime scene -- "Strong enough to stand on": savaging an American powerhouse called Samsonite -- "We have 2,500 families that depend on us getting it right": bleeding New Madrid, Missouri, dry -- "Capitalism on steroids": no lusher target than healthcare -- Call to action went unheeded: standing by while corporations practice medicine -- "Like when Hitler invaded Poland in 1939": a special tax treatment that mints billionaires -- "Money for nothing": investigators home in on fleecers' fees and practices -- "Oppressing Indigenous people": bulldozing through our wetlands -- "Hiding in the background, rarely held to account": mining for Medicare gold -- "Special and symbiotic": Apollo goes back to its roots -- "No evidence of wrongdoing": Leon Black makes his exit -- Conclusion: who will stop the bleeding?

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