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531. Should You Trust Private Equity to Take Care of Your Dog?

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The Carried Interest Loophole

The Carried Interest loophole allows private equity partners to pay essentially half the tax rate that those of us who rely on ordinary income have to pay. Josh Lerner says, no, that private capital can serve as a special sort of lubricant for a dynamic economy. A well-known finance professor at Oxford University will tell you private equity is a factory for turning out billionaires.

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