Bad Company: Private Equity and the Death of the American Dream―An Exposé of Private Equity’s Devastating Impact on American Lives, Communities, and the Economy

By Megan Greenwell. Tells the stories of four American workers whose lives and communities were upended by the ruinous effects of private equity takeovers — a Toys R Us floor supervisor, a rural doctor, a local newspaper journalist, and an affordable housing organizer. Taken together, their individual experiences 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. It is is a forceful rebuke of one of America’s most consequential, yet least understood economic forces. Read more.