Air Date: 11-12-2024

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It's easy enough to look into one industry at a time to see what's going wrong, but today we're looking at what is so often lurking in the background of higher prices, lower quality goods and services, and, ultimately, many failing businesses: Private Equity.

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KEY POINTS

KP 1: Why Does Everyone Hate Private Equity? - The Plain Bagel - Air Date 9-20-24

KP 2: How Private Equity Consumed America - Wendover Productions - Air Date 5-7-24

KP 3: How private equity conquered America - The Chris Hedges Report - Air Date 3-1-24

KP 4: Warren Calls for Ownership Transparency for Private Equity in Health Care - Senator Elizabeth Warren - Air Date 7-12-24

KP 5: BlackRock: The Conspiracies You Don’t Know - More Perfect Union - Air Date 9-15-24

(48:16) NOTE FROM THE EDITOR

On getting through this together

DEEPER DIVES

(53:11) SECTION A - HOW IT WORKS

A1: Why Private Equity SUCKS for (almost) Everyone - The Market Exit - Air Date 9-8-22

A2: So does private equity own everything? - Good Work - Air Date 9-22-23

A3: How Private Equity Is Making Your Health Care Worse - The Majority Report w/ Sam Seder - Air Date 4-15-23

A4: Sociology Ruins Private Equity Part 1 - Sociology Ruins Everything - Air Date 11-1-21

(1:30:42) SECTION B - POWER

B1: The Sporting Class: Why NFL Owners Want Private Equity Cash - Pablo TorreFinds Out - Air Date 8-29-24

B2: Project 2025 is All Trick, No Treat (with Peggy Bailey) - Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer - Air Date 10-29-24

B3: Matt Stoller: Monopoly, Medical Care & More - The Zero Hour with RJ Eskow - Air Date 10-21-21

B4: How Private Equity Ate Britain - Bloomberg Originals - Air Date 6-7-24

(2:03:28) SECTION C - SOLUTIONS

C1: Sociology Ruins Private Equity Part 2 - Sociology Ruins Everything - Air Date 11-1-21

C2: Matt Stoller: Goliath - War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy | 054 - Just Another Mindset Podcast - Air Date 2-7-23

C3: Private Equity and Healthcare with Senator Elizabeth Warren plus ANNIE! with Laura Tretter - Oddly Specific with Meridith Lynch - Air Date 5-15-24

MUSIC (Blue Dot Sessions)

Produced by Jay! Tomlinson

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