Bad Company: Private Equity and the Death of the American Dream
How did private equity firms become so good at making money for themselves and so damaging for the rest of society? Acclaimed journalist Megan Greenwell’s BAD COMPANY tells the hidden story of private equity through the experiences of four American workers who watched as private equity upended their employers and communities: a Toys R Us floor supervisor, a rural doctor, a local newspaper journalist, and a tenant in a large apartment complex. In the tradition of deeply human reportage like Matthew Desmond’s Evicted, Greenwell pulls back the curtain on shadowy multibillion dollar companies like Apollo Global Management, Bain Capital, and KKR, telling a larger story about how private equity is reshaping the economy, disrupting communities, and hollowing out the very idea of the American dream itself. Timely and masterfully told, BAD COMPANY is a forceful rebuke of America’s most consequential, yet least understood economic forces.
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