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How Private Equity Firms Widen The Income Gap

How Private Equity Firms Widen The Income Gap

Fresh Air
45 min
26 Apr 23
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About the episode

Financial journalist Gretchen Morgenson explains how private equity firms buy out companies, then lay off employees and cut costs in order to expand profits. Her new book is These are the Plunderers.Also, jazz critic Kevin Whitehead remembers pianist Ahmad Jamal.