Private Equity’s Rise Supports a Few American’s Dreams, But Not Necessarily the American Dream

James Keys and Tunde Ogunlana take a look at the increasing dominance of private equity in the US economy and what may be contributing to it, and also consider how some approaches that have commonly been favored by private equity, when deployed in more and more areas in the economy, may end up working against the interests of most stakeholders.

 

“We’ve Been Sold a Story That Isn’t Remotely True”: How Private-Equity Billionaires Killed the American Dream (Vanity Fair)

The Secretive Industry Devouring the U.S. Economy (The Atlantic)

The profit-obsessed monster destroying American emergency rooms (Vox)

Private equity's positive impact on the US economy highlighted in new report (InvestmentNews.com)