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Private Equity's Plan to Pillage America with Brendan Ballou

The Lincoln Project

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How Long Some Individual Employees Worked for Toys R Us

Toys R Us was a storied franchise that every kid in America knew and wanted to go to. In 2007, a triumvirate of private equity firms bought up the company and loaded it up with massive debt. Ultimately, the private equity firms pushed Toys R Us into bankruptcy. The relationship between Jews in Israel and North America is getting more complicated because of so much at stake. Why should Israel matter to North American Jews? What can we learn from one another to become a better Jewish people?

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