03113cam a2200373 i 4500 2778474884 TxAuBib 20260609120000.0 250529s2025||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780063299351 hardcover 0063299356 hardcover (OCoLC)1521306768 TxAuBib rda Greenwell, Megan, author. Bad company [BOOK] : private equity and the death of the American dream / Megan Greenwell. Private equity and the death of the American dream. First edition. New York, NY : Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow, [2025] ©2025. xxiii, 294 pages ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-278) and index. Part I: Before. Liz -- Roger -- Natalia -- Loren -- Part II: During. Liz -- Roger -- Natalia -- Loren -- Part III: After. Liz -- Roger -- Natalia -- Loren. "Private equity runs our country, yet few Americans have any idea how ingrained it is in their lives. Private equity controls our hospitals, daycare centers, supermarket chains, voting machine manufacturers, local newspapers, nursing home operators, fertility clinics, and prisons. The industry even manages highways, municipal water systems, fire departments, emergency medical services, and owns a growing swath of commercial and residential real estate. Private equity executives, meanwhile, are not only among the wealthiest people in American society, but have grown to become modern-day barons with outsized influence on our politics and legislation. CEOs of firms like Blackstone, Carlyle, KKR, and Apollo are rewarded with seats in the Senate and on the boards of the country's most august institutions; meanwhile, entire communities are hollowed out as a result of their buyouts. Workers lose their jobs. Communities lose their institutions. Only private equity wins. Acclaimed journalist Megan Greenwell's Bad Company unearths the hidden story of private equity by examining the lives of four American workers that were devastated as private equity upended their employers and communities: a Toys R Us floor supervisor, a rural doctor, a local newspaper journalist, and an affordable housing organizer. Taken together, their individual experiences also pull back the curtain on a much larger project: how private equity reshaped the American economy to serve its own interests, creating a new class of billionaires while stripping ordinary people of their livelihoods, their health care, their homes, and their sense of security"-- Provided by publisher. 20260609. Private equity United States. Venture capital United States. Finance United States. Investments United States. Income distribution United States. United States Economic conditions.