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Ep 16: How Private Equity is Plundering America (with Brendan Ballou)

Library of Mistakes

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The Impact of Private Equity on Society

Instead of offering better management, firms often use a range of tactics described below. They include lease facts, dividend recaps, strategic bankruptcies, roll-ups and so forth. These are tools that private equity firms can use to make money in the short term at the expense of not just their portfolio companies, but even sometimes their own investors.

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