Private Equity's Plan to Pillage America with Brendan Ballou
The Lincoln Project
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The Positive and the Negative of Private Equity Firms
Private equity firms have a stunning sort of legal similarity to the trusts of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. But we actually managed to constrain the power of the trust, it took a long time. We established the FTC, the SEC, the first labor and environmental laws,. The graduated income tax and so forth. All these things contributed to building a fairer economy.
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